Riccardo Ben Alì Zinati

Researcher, University of Italian Switzerland (USI), Lugano

Riccardo Ben Alì Zinati earned his PhD in Theoretical Physics at SISSA, Trieste, specialising in critical phenomena, disordered systems, and quantum many-body theory. After a postdoctoral position at Sorbonne University in Paris, he is now a researcher at USI in Lugano.His research spans statistical physics, complex systems, Bayesian statistics, and quantum computing, including recent work using quantum computers as analog simulators of classical criticality in disordered systems.