CV

rravasio@uchicago.edu · linkedin.com/in/riccardo-ravasio

Employment

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago 2021 – present
Advisors: Arvind Murugan and Rama Ranganathan

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 2016 – 2020
Advisor: Matthieu Wyart · Thesis: Mechanics and co-evolution of allosteric materials and proteins
M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca 2013 – 2016
110/110 cum laude
Research trainee, IPhT at CEA Saclay, France 2015 – 2016
Advisors: Giulio Biroli and Alain Billoire · Thesis: Activated dynamics of disordered systems in the mean-field approximation
Exchange programme, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France 2014 – 2015
B.Sc. in Physics, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca 2010 – 2013
Advisor: Diego Noja, 107/110 · Thesis: Point-interactions in two- and three-dimensional Quantum mechanics

Awards and Fellowships

Mentoring

Current

Darren Liu — PhD student, University of Chicago 2022 – present

Past

Kristen Vosberg — laboratory technician, University of Chicago 2023 – 2026
Aidan Etterer — undergraduate, University of Chicago 2024 – 2025
Michele Peruzzo — undergraduate, University of Chicago 2022 – 2025
Sumana Turimella — undergraduate, University of Chicago 2022 – 2023
Sophia Chiang — undergraduate, University of Chicago 2021 – 2022
Solange Flatt — Master thesis, EPFL 2017

Teaching and Outreach

University of Chicago
Volunteer at Physics with a Bang!
EPFL, Physics master
Teaching assistant — Statistical physics III: complex systems (random walks, polymers, glassy systems, information theory)
EPFL, Physics bachelor
Teaching assistant — Statistical physics II: phase transitions
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Student–faculty liaison in the Physics department
Liceo Banfi, Vimercate, Italy
Outreach presentations to high school students about careers in physics

Funding

Talks

Evolution of error correction through a need for speed 2025
Laboratoire Jean Perrin (invited), Sorbonne Université, Paris
ENS Physics Department (invited), Paris
Resets allow for canalization in high-dimensional state spaces 2025
APS March Meeting, Anaheim, CA
GRC (invited), Stochastic Physics in Biology
A minimal scenario for the origin of non-equilibrium order 2024 – 2025
APS March Meeting 2024, Minneapolis, MN
PoLS Annual Meeting 2024, ICTP Trieste, Italy
NITMB research progress talk, Chicago, IL, 2024
GRS, Stochastic Physics in Biology, 2025
Higher accuracy due to higher speeds in copying information 2022
APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL
Optimality of cooperativity in allosteric materials and proteins 2019
APS March Meeting 2019, Boston, MA
Architecture of allosteric materials and principles for optimal cooperativity 2018
APS March Meeting 2018, Los Angeles, CA
DPG Spring Meeting 2018, Berlin, Germany

Posters

A double-barcoded library strategy to access activity and accuracy for all single mutants of a DNA polymerase 2025
GRC, Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution
A minimal scenario for the origin of non-equilibrium order 2025
GRC, Stochastic Physics in Biology
Accessing evolutionary adaptability through a mutational neighborhood assay 2023
GRC, Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution
Architecture of allosteric materials and proteins 2016 – 2019
Workshop on Co-evolution in proteins and RNA, theory and experiments, CSS-Cargèse 2016
Workshop on Computational approaches to investigating allostery, CECAM-EPFL 2017
Boulder Condensed Matter Summer School 2017, Frustrated and disordered systems
Boulder Condensed Matter Summer School 2019, Theoretical Biophysics