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• #### Centre-of-mass like superposition of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes: A pathway to non-autonomous stochastic differential equations and to fractional diffusion ﻿

(2018-10-25)
We consider an ensemble of Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes featuring a population of relaxation times and a population of noise amplitudes that characterize the heterogeneity of the ensemble. We show that the centre-of-mass ...
• #### Finite-energy Lévy-type motion through heterogeneous ensemble of Brownian particles ﻿

(2019-02-01)
Complex systems are known to display anomalous diffusion, whose signature is a space/time scaling $x \sim t^\delta$ with $\delta \neq 1/2$ in the probability density function (PDF). Anomalous diffusion can emerge jointly ...
• #### Fractional Diffusion and Medium Heterogeneity: The Case of the Continuos Time Random Walk ﻿

(2021-07-24)
In this contribution we show that fractional diffusion emerges from a simple Markovian Gaussian random walk when the medium displays a power-law heterogeneity. Within the framework of the continuous time random walk, the ...
• #### Gut microbiota ecology: Biodiversity estimated from hybrid neutral-niche model increases with health status and aging ﻿

(2020-10-30)
In this work we propose an index to estimate the gut microbiota biodiversity using a modeling approach with the aim of describing its relationship with health and aging. The gut microbiota, a complex ecosystem that links ...
• #### Langevin equation in complex media and anomalous diffusion ﻿

(2018-07-30)
The problem of biological motion is a very intriguing and topical issue. Many efforts are being focused on the development of novel modelling approaches for the description of anomalous diffusion in biological systems, such ...
• #### Modeling of birth-death and diffusion processes in biological complex environments ﻿

(2018-04-20)
This thesis is centered on the theory of stochastic processes and their applications in biological systems characterized by a complex environment. Three case studies have been modeled by the use of the three fundamental ...
• #### SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? ZERO-SIZE JUMPS IN RANDOM WALKS FOR LÉVY FLIGHTS ﻿

(2021-02)
We study Markovian continuous-time random walk models for Lévy flights and we show an example in which the convergence to stable densities is not guaranteed when jumps follow a bi-modal power-law distribution that is equal ...
• #### Stochastic Properties of Colliding Hard Spheres in a Non-equilibrium Thermal Bath ﻿

(2021-07-24)
We consider the problem of describing the dynamics of a test particle moving in a thermal bath using the stochastic differential equations. We briefly recall the stochastic approach to the Brownian based on the statistical ...
• #### Study of Wound Healing Dynamics by Single Pseudo-Particle Tracking in Phase Contrast Images Acquired in Time-Lapse ﻿

(2021-03)
Cellular contacts modify the way cells migrate in a cohesive group with respect to a free single cell. The resulting motion is persistent and correlated, with cells’ velocities self-aligning in time. The presence of a dense ...