Dr. Giacomo Paesani
- Position: Research Fellow (Algorithms and Complexity)
- Areas of expertise: algorithms; complexity; parameterized algorithms; graphs; graph structure and algorithms; knowledge representation; mixed integer linear programming.
- Email: G.Paesani@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: Room 3.32, Sir William Henry Bragg Building
- Website: Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
<h4>Research projects</h4>
<p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>
- (Re)Contextualizing Contested Heritage: Building Capacity & Designing Participatory Approaches to Preserve Cultural Heritage by the Youth
- 3D Tribo-Nanprinting: Nanoscale Additive Manufacturing of Functional Materials Using Tribofilms
- 3DMBC (3D Modular Building Connections)
- A fresh look at visual sampling: How are fixational eye-movements optimised? [physFEM]
- A new approach to understanding accretion discs: from planets to black holes
- A New Order of Liquids: Polar and Orientationally Modulated Soft Materials
- A Programme of Astrophysical Research at Leeds
- A Sustainable Circular Economy for Offshore Wind
- Academic Centre of Expertise for Sludge (Particulates and Fluids)
- Accelerated Development of Pharmaceutical Processes Through Digitally Coupled Reaction Screening and Process Optimisation
- Accelerating surgical training
- Acoustic control of quantum cascade heterostructures
- Advanced Crystal Shape Descriptors for Precision Particulate Design, Characterisation and Processing (Shape4PPD)
- Assessing a wearable sensor for use in pre-surgical hip replacement planning
- Assuring the quality of design descriptions through the use of design configuration spaces
- Autonomous Development of Telescoped Catalytic Reactions
- Balancing the impact of City Infrastructure Engineering on Natural systems using Robots
- Benchmarking to reduce budget uncertainty & actual cost, and increase learning from Oil & Gas
- BIANDA: Bayesian Deep Atlases for Cardiac Motion Abnormality Assessment from Imaging and Metadata
- Big Data Analytics: A New Revolution in UK Facilities Management
- BioTrib: Advanced Research Training for the Biotribology of Natural and Artificial Joints in the 21st Century
- BonE-GraphT
- CAMIE (Combining Advanced Materials for Interface Engineering)
- Categorifying Turbulence in Borel Reducibility
- Ceramic Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Platform (CHAMP)
- Circular oil and gas decommissioning
- Closing the Loop via Molecular Polymer Rheology
- CMMI-EPSRC RENACEM: Response to CO2 exposure of concrete with natural supplementary cementitious materials
- CoDIR – Colonic disease investigation by robotic hydro-colonoscopy
- Coherent States for Molecular Simulations. A Universal Approach to Solving Real World Problems
- Combinatorial Representation Theory: Algebra and its interfaces with geometry, topology and combinatorics
- Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery from Waste (C-VORR)
- CONtact TrAcing in Care homes using digital Technology (CONTACT)
- Core Equipment - SuperSTEM 2020
- Corrosion and stress corrosion cracking in high alloy materials
- Corrosion mechanism of austenitic stainless steels and Ni-based alloys in molten salts under thermal cycling condition for CSP plants
- Creating the materials of the future
- Creative Economies Through Youth- led Arts and Craft in Jordan (CEARC)
- Crystallisation in the Real World: Delivering Control through Theory and Experiment
- DARA - Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy Phase 3
- Deep Learning with Simulated Data
- Developing a revolutionary hip implant for life
- Developing Devices that use Biotemplated Nanoparticles for Sustainable Energy Generation
- Developing the process and mix design for a carbon-neutral block using mineralized industrial waste
- Development of a new generation cement free and self-sensing Textile-Reinforced Smart Mortar (TRSM) composite for masonry repair and strengthening
- Diabetic Ulceration: Tribology of the Plantar Aspect
- DIADEM-ART
- Digital Design Accelerator Project to Connect Active Material Design to Product Performance
- Digitalising the Development of Chemoenzymatic Cascades
- Digitally-assisted Collective Governance of Smart City Commons-ARTIO
- Direct Statistical Simulation of the Sun and Stars (D5S)
- DMS-EPSRC Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Fluctuating Populations
- DUSTBUSTERS: Dust and gas in planet forming discs
- Dynamic Accretion Discs in Astrophysics
- DYNAMIN: Dynamic Control of Mineralisation
- Early Detection Innovation Sandpit Award: Research Proposal Outline
- EDGENESS: Energy Efficiency, Edge and Serverless Computing
- Efficient ground energy systems in diaphragm walls in challenging con
- Engineered UK clays for production of low-carbon cements
- Engineering tools for analysis of impingement in the human hip joint.
- ENVIRO-COAT: ENVIROnmentally assisted, engineered Corrosion prOducts for Aqueous corrosion miTigation
- EoLO-Hubs - Wind turbine blades End of Life through Open HUBs for circular materials in sustainable business models
- Establishing lung ultrasound as a key tool in the stratification and monitoring of COVID-19 patients
- EU Horizon 2020 Advanced Grant
- Evaluating the safety and patient impact of an Artificial Intelligence Command Centre in the UK National Health Service
- Excising Infection in the Surgical Environment [ExISE]
- Exploiting the resilience of masonry arch bridge infrastructure: a 3D multi-level modelling framework
- Exploring novel binding pockets in DNA gyrase and DNA topoisomerase IV to address antibiotic resistance
- Flow-Xl: A New UK Facility for Analysis of Crystallisation in Flow Systems
- Friction: The Tribology Enigma EPSRC Programme Grant
- Future Urban Ventilation Network – The Breathing City
- Galvanostatic tissue sensing for cancer detection
- Healthcare Environment Control, Optimisation and Infection Risk Assessment (HECOIRA)
- Hierarchical biomechanics
- High Resolution Imaging Using Transient Binders
- High-throughput discovery of bioactive small molecules
- Human - Centric Indoor Climate for Healthcare Facilities (HumanIC)
- IMPRESS - Compliant meshes for pelvic organ prolapse
- IMPRESS - Fecal continence system
- In-situ engine oil quality improvement
- Industrial Decarbonisation
- Influence of ventilation design on the prevalence of anti-microbial bacteria in homes
- INSILC: In-silico trials for drug-eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold design, development and evaluation
- Integrated biological approaches for high-grade biomethane vehicle fuel production from food waste
- Integrating Intercultural Cities through Belonging in Green Spaces
- Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre for Mineral-based Construction Materials (ICEC-MCM)
- Inverse Mathematical Modelling in Epidemiology
- Investigating liquid-like mineral phases in crowded media
- Investigating the role of CO2 corrosion products in localised corrosion
- KTP collaboration between Roemex Limited and the University of Leeds
- LABYRINTH: Conservation, Analysis and Virtual Reconstruction of the Archaeological Site of Hawara Pyramid and Labyrinth
- Leeds-Africa Hub for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
- Low Carbon Footprint Precast Concrete Products for an Energy Efficient Built Environment
- Maternal Health - Vacuum assisted delivery simulation
- Model theory of analytic functions
- Model theory, Diophantine geometry and combinatorics
- Modelling, Validation and Application of Triboelectrification
- Monoidal bicategories, linear logic and operads
- Multi-scale engineering of alkali-activated concretes for sustainable infrastructure
- MULTIForm facility
- Multiphase Corrosion in Geothermal Environments
- Multiscale mixed lubrication and wear of laser textured surfaces: A framework for in-silico trials of orthopaedic hip replacements
- New strategies for controlling crystallisation
- Next Generation of Algorithms for Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP)
- Next-generation Radiocarbon Calibration: Incorporating information on calibration curve covariance
- Novel anti-wear systems for boundary lubricated contacts
- Novel Approach for Vital Infrastructure Post Disaster (NOVA VIDA)
- Obtaining robust "dates-as-data" inference from the calibration of multiple radiocarbon determinations
- ODYSSEUS (Coal-to-liquids supply chain integration in view of operational, economic and environmental risk assessments under unfavourable geological settings)
- Oncological Engineering
- OptiWaSP – Optimised Walking Schoolbus Planning
- Our past, our future, all together in Fanyan
- Passive layER FailuRe Mechanisms (PERFoRM)
- PEEK-OPTIMA as a Platform for Natural Total Knee Replacement
- Person-centred information needs towards building resilient health systems for health security: A decolonising situational perspective
- Perturbation of Protein-Protein Interactions (PoPPI)
- Powering HGVs on England’s Future Electric Roads
- Powering Uganda's Clean Energy Future: Biomethane Technology and Innovation for Clean Cooling in Rural Uganda (BioCool)
- Prefabs sprouting: Modern Methods of Construction and the English housing crisis
- Premixed Combustion Flame Instability Characteristics in Constant Volume Vessels
- Preserving the Disappearing Cultural Heritage of Post-War Mosul, Iraq: Valuing Diversity in the Urban Recovery of Mosul’s Old Districts
- Process Intensification of Nuclear Effluent Treatments
- Quantum Wide Area Networks via Multi-Antenna Satellite Nodes
- Quantum-Safe Internet (QSI)
- Regularisation by noise: beyond Itô's theory
- Rehab-Assessment
- REST: Reconfigurable lower limb Exoskeleton for effective Stroke Treatment in residential settings
- Revolt in the 'Square': Spatial Modelling of Urban Stability in Modern Cities New insights and approaches for preventing conflict and violence
- Robotic picking and packing with physical reasoning
- Robust Identification of Changepoints in Population Size via Radiocarbon Dating
- SaFEGround - Sustainable, Flexible and Efficient Ground-source heating and cooling systems
- Sensing tissue trauma in surgery
- Smart assessment, management and optimisation of urban geothermal resources (SmartRes)
- Smart Restoration with Particle Infused Repointing
- Soft robotic cardiac assistance
- Soft robotic fabrication
- Soft tactile sensors
- Spatial Narratives of Revolt: Public Performance During Anti-Nuclear Protests in Tokyo
- Structures and Probes of Intrinsically Disordered Regions (SPIDR)
- Sulphide scale formation and inhibition in combined H2S & CO2 scale and corrosion environment
- Syntax and semantics of 2-dimensional type theories
- Tailored Production and Utilisation of Sustainable Low Cost Lignocellulosic Advanced Biofuel Blends as Diesel and Petrol Substitutes: SusLABB
- Targeting airborne bacterial infection: Studies on patient- and laboratory-generated mycobacterium tuberculosis aerosols
- TeLeMan - Teleoperative Legged Manipulator for Explosive Ordnance Disposal
- Temperature locking in-membrane electrophoresis to study protein-protein interactions
- The effect of avascular necrosis of the hip on articular function in natural and artificial joints
- The intra-abdominal platform for surgical support
- The Living Museum of Umm Qais: Sustainable preservation, analysis and virtual reconstruction of Gadara's ancient site
- The Living Museum of Umm Qais: Sustainable preservation, analysis and virtual reconstruction of Gadara's ancient site and village
- The role of hydrogen in the degradation of stainless steels
- TRACK: Transport Risk Assessment for COVID Knowledge
- Transient Tomography for Defect Detection
- Tribochemical film phenomenon in total hip replacement
- Tribology of novel friction pairs for environmentally friendly automotive brakes
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
- Understanding the mechanism(s) by which inorganic additives reduce friction
- Wear and Kinematics of Saiph & MBK Total Knee Replacements
- Women’s Safety and Security in Public open spaces (WesafSpace)
- WUN-BRIC - WUN to Building Resilience In Construction
- Yorkshire Circular Economy Living Lab
- Zooming in on adaptive immunity with high-speed super-resolution microscopy
Qualifications
- BSs in Mathematics (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
- MSc in Mathematics (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
- PhD in Computer Science (Durham University)