Research

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My research deals with the physics of disordered systems, with a focus on supercooled liquids and glasses. My work is based on statistical physics methods, computer simulations and some tools borrowed from data science.

Check out this page for a glimpse of my research interests.

Recent papers and seminars

"Glass is a matter of time"
D. Coslovich, Nature Physics 21, 346 (2025)

"Freezing, melting, and the onset of glassiness in binary mixtures"
D. Coslovich, L. Galliano, L. Costigliola, The Journal of Chemical Physics 162, 061102 (2025)

"Glassy Dynamics and Local Crystalline Order in Two-Dimensional Amorphous Silica"
M. Dirindin, D. Coslovich, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 129, 1095 (2025)

"Roadmap on machine learning glassy dynamics"
G. Jung, R. Alkemade, V. Bapst, D. Coslovich, L. Filion, F. Landes, A. Liu, F. Pezzicoli, H. Shiba, G. Volpe, F. Zamponi, L. Berthier, G. Biroli, Nature Reviews Physics 7, 91 (2025)

"Fare fisica con il computer"
Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Trieste (Italy), 2021-2025

"Beyond prediction: interpretability of data-driven models of glassy dynamics"
International Discussion Meeting on Relaxation in Complex Systems 10th, Barcelone (Spain), 2025

"More is different - Fenomeni emergenti e problemi aperti nella fisica della materia: dall'acqua ai fermioni di Majorana"
Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Trieste (Italy), 2025

"Machine learning glassy dynamics: What do humans learn?"
Dipartimento di Fisica, Padova (Italy), 2025

Software

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My codes are available on framagit. Among other things, I develop atooms, a high-level Python framework to deal with particle-based simulations, such as molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo.

Check out this page for an overview of the codes I develop and to which I contribute.

Latest releases

atooms-pp - What's new in version 4.1.0, released 16/9/2025
Post-processing tools for particle simulations

pantarei - What's new in version 0.10.0, released 9/6/2025
A general-purpose workflow manager

f2py-jit - What's new in version 1.2.1, released 28/5/2025
Just-in-time Fortran extension builder for Python

atooms - What's new in version 3.27.0, released 10/4/2025
A framework for simulations of interacting particles

Featured packages

Teaching

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I am teaching the following courses at the University of Trieste

Tesi di laurea triennali e magistrali

The thesis projects I supervise are based on statistical mechanics and computer simulations, and involve computational and/or theoretical investigations of

• disordered systems (ex. supercooled liquids, glasses)
• soft and active matter (ex. colloidal suspensions, driven systems, flocks)
• complex systems (ex. self-organized criticality, cellular automata)

I enjoy supervising projects with a focus on computational methods, such as

• simulation and optimization algorithms (ex. efficient Monte Carlo methods, inverse design)
• machine learning / data science (ex. unsupervised, supervised and reinforcement learning)
• reproducible research approaches (ex. workflow management, FAIR data)

Selected topics for "laurea triennale" thesis projects (last updated: October 2025)

• "Lattice models of glassy dynamics"
• "Inverse problems in statistical physics"
• "Opinion dynamics in complex networks"

Selected topics for master thesis projects (last updated: October 2025)

• "Structure and dynamics of two-dimensional boron oxide" - in collaboration with Alessandro Sala (CNR-IOM)
• "Liquid-drop models for foams and emulsions" - in collaboration with Primoz Ziherl (Lubiana)
• "Machine learning supercooled liquids and glasses" - in collaboration with Misaki Ozawa (Grenoble)

Get in touch with me for an informal chat about possible projects - they can be tailored to your interests and motivation.