Crowd Dynamics, Volume 5 From Human Complexity to Scientific Machine Learning

Livio Gibelli is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Politecnico di Milano. Before joining Edinburgh in 2018, he held research positions at the University of Warwick, the Politecnico di Milano, the Politecnico di Torino, and the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the mesoscopic modelling of crowds, non-equilibrium multiphase flows, and numerical methods for kinetic equations. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and edited four previous volumes on crowd dynamics.

Nicola Bellomo is a distinguished professor at the University of Granada and a professor emeritus at the Polytechnic University of Torino. He started his career in 1980 when he was called to cover the chair of mathematical physics and applied mathematics due to his scientific achievements on the mathematical theory of the Boltzmann equation and of stochastic differential equations. Subsequently, he moved his scientific interests to the study of living systems, becoming one of the pioneers of the development of active particles methods to the modeling of large systems of self-propelled interacting entities. He is the author of two books published by Birkhaüser devoted to this topic. Nicola delivered, in 2009, the prestigious Shanks Lecture at the Vanderbilt University on the modeling of immune competition. He was awarded the “Third Level of Honor” for scientific merits by the President of the Italian Republic.