Research

I am currently collaborating with CNR ISTC on computational brain models of neurological diseases.

Check out my new book Simulating the brain [1]!

Course material and University Notes

Here are some university notes and various (hopefully) useful documents:

• Mathematical foundations for AI: Overview of the math behind running and training AI models
• Python for AI: Basic to advance python course for not-yet-programmers AI developers
• Numerical optimization course: Introductiory slides to numerical optimization.
• Numerical modelling and simulation as a tool to study the parkinsonian disease: Numerical simulation of monoamines interactions in rats.
• Modelli numerici per la simulazione: Notes and excercises on numerical methods.
• Statistical methods for data analysis: Intrductory slides to statistical methods for data analysis.
• Metodi di approssimazione: Notes, exercises and implementations from the approximation methods course.
• Calcolo numerico: Notes from the numeric calculus course.
• Metodi numerici per la grafica: Notes from the numerical methods for computer graphics course.
• Studio della camminata con accelerometri e GPS: Study of the gate cycle with accelerometers and GPS.

Publications

[1] D. Caligiore and S. Carli, Simulating the Brain: A Four-Step Method using Ordinary Differential Equations and Python, Springer, 2025, doi: 10.1007/978-981-96-2718-9.

[2] S. Carli, A. Schirripa, P. Mirino, A. Capirchio and D. Caligiore, The role of the prefrontal cortex in cocaine-induced noradrenaline release in the nucleus accumbens: a computational study, Biological Cybernetics 119, 6 (2025).

[3] S. Carli, L. Brugnano, and D. Caligiore, Simulating combined monoaminergic depletions in a PD animal model through a bio-constrained differential equations system, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 18:1386841, 2024.

[4] L. Rueda, S. Dallmeier-Tiessen, P. Herterich, S. Carli, S. Mele, and S. Warner, Providing meaningful information in a large scale digital library – a case study, in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries TPDL 2013, T. Aalberg, C. Papatheodorou, M. Dobreva, G. Tsakonas, and Charles J. Farrugia, Eds. vol. 8092 pp. 279–284.

[5] T. C. Brooks, S. Carli, S. Dallmeier-Tiessen, S. Mele, and H. Weiler, Authormagic in INSPIRE: Author disambiguation in scholarly communication, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Science (WebSci 2011), pp.158.