⬇️ You can download my full CV here. (last updated, October 15th 2023)

Current position

Position: Junior postdoc
Location: Dept. of Physics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Research group: CoMuNe lab: research group for multilayer modeling and analysis of complex systems

Education

• 2017-2022 | Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering, Ghent University
  
  • Dissertation title: “The interplay between resource distribution and otpimal foraging behavior: from individuals to populations”.
    
  • Supervisors: Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf
• 2015-2017 | M.Sc. in Physics and Astronomy, Radboud University
  
  • Dissertation title: “On path integrals, trust regions, and Feynman diagrams”.
    
  • Minor track: Neuroscience
• 2011-2015 | B.Sc. in Physics and Astronomy, Radboud University
  
  • Dissertation title: “Synaptic pruning in the ageing brain using Hopfield networks”.
    
  • Minor track: Computation physics

Highlighted talks

• NetSciX 2024: International Conference on Network Science
  Johannes Nauta, Manlio De Domenico (2024).
  Presentation: "Dispersal and network topology strongly influence meta-ecosystem stability".
  ⤷ Oral presentation on linear stability of meta-ecosystems using random matrix theory. Our results show that patch network topology and dispersal mediate linear stability drastically. More specifically, we show that dispersal can provide stability when dispersal rates are sufficiently large, patches are sufficiently diverse, and the dispersal network topology is sufficiently random.

• CCS/Italy 2023: Complexity and risk
  Johannes Nauta, Manlio De Domenico (2023).
  Presentation: "Dispersal and network topology strongly influence meta-ecosystem stability".
  ⤷ Oral presentation on linear stability of meta-ecosystems using random matrix theory. Our results show that patch network topology and dispersal mediate linear stability. More specifically, we show that disconnected patch networks need to be sufficiently large and sufficiently connected for the global system to remain stable.

Highlighted posters

• SMEEB 2024: Stochastic Models and Experiments in Ecology and Biology
  Johannes Nauta, Manlio De Domenico (2024).
  Poster: "Predicting maintenance of mobile genetic elements in large microbial systems".
  ⤷ Poster presentation on predicting the maintenance of mobile genetic elements in random microbial systems. The randomness pertains to the assumed random nature of interactions. Using methods from epidemiology, we were able to accurately predict whether mobile genetic elements were maintained --- in epidemiological terms, they become endemic --- and showed that maintenance depends strongly on interactions.

Selected publications

(for a full list of my publications, either check my CV, or see ~/publications)

• Johannes Nauta, Manlio De Domenico. "Topological conditions drive stability in meta-ecosystems". (2024)

• Johannes Nauta, Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf and Ricardo Martinez-Garcia. "Foraging behavior and patch size distribution jointly determine population dynamics in fragmented landscapes". Journal of The Royal Society Interface 19.191 (2022).

• Johannes Nauta, Pieter Simoens, and Yara Khaluf. "Group size and resource fractality drive multimodal search strategies: A quantitative analysis on group foraging". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 590, 126702 (2022).