Curriculum vitae
Marco Biroli
Positions
- Research Scholar, University of Chicago — Departments of Physics & Computer Science, with Vincenzo Vitelli. Eric & Wendy Schmidt AI in Science fellow, 2025–present.
- PhD, Theoretical Physics, LPTMS, Université Paris-Saclay — advisor: Satya N. Majumdar, 2022–2025. Thesis: Strongly correlated stochastic systems (arXiv:2508.12818).
Education
- MSc, Theoretical Physics, École Normale Supérieure — summa cum laude (17.96 / 20)
- BSc, Physics & Mathematics (double major), École Polytechnique — summa cum laude (4.17 / 4.0)
Awards & fellowships
- Kadanoff–Rice Postdoctoral Scholarship, University of Chicago — competitive one-year fellowship (on hold).
- Eric & Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship ($169,744) — competitive two-year postdoctoral fellowship, 2025–2027.
- CDSN doctoral scholarship, ENS (€75,600) — competitive three-year scholarship, 2022–2025.
- ENS-PSL physics department excellence scholarship (~€10,000), 2019–2022.
- École Polytechnique Foundation excellence scholarship (€9,600), 2018–2020.
Teaching & mentoring
- Graduate-student supervision, University of Chicago (Vitelli group), January 2026–present.
- First-year PhD student mentoring, LPTMS, Université Paris-Saclay, September 2024 – June 2025.
- Undergraduate experimental physics instructor, Université Paris-Saclay, March–June 2024.
- Science outreach — Fête de la Science stand on probability, October 2023.
- Private tutoring, 2019–2022.
Talks, workshops & seminars
- Variational auto-encoders are finite-size mean-field approximators — Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series, University of Chicago, 3 March 2026. (seminar talk)
- New Vistas in Stochastic Resetting — Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Edinburgh, 17–19 June 2024. (contributed poster)
- LPTMS bi-weekly seminar — LPTMS, Université Paris-Saclay, March 2024. (invited talk)
- Interaction, Disorder and Elasticity — École de Physique des Houches, 3–7 April 2023. (contributed talk)
- GDR Interaction, Disorder and Elasticity — Université Grenoble-Alpes, 28–30 November 2022. (contributed poster)
- Asymmetry in interacting particle systems, microscopic and macroscopic effects — INRIA Lille, 3–5 October 2022.
Schools
- Theory of Large Deviations and Applications — École de Physique des Houches, July 2024. (contributed poster)
- Quantum Localization and Glassy Physics — Institut d'études scientifiques de Cargèse, July 2023. (contributed poster)
- Statistical Physics of Complex Systems — Beg Rohu Summer School, June 2023. (contributed poster)
Service
- Referee — Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. E, J. Phys. A, J. Stat. Mech., Chaos, Chaos Solitons & Fractals.
- Student representative at the lab board, LPTMS, 2024–2025.
- Admissions assessor, École Polytechnique bachelor program, 2022–2024.
- Creator & organizer, LPTMS statistical-physics seminar series, 2022–2023.