# Marco Biroli > Research Scholar at the University of Chicago. Theoretical physicist working on extreme-value statistics, stochastic resetting, random matrix theory, and strongly correlated particle systems — and, increasingly, on applications of these tools in machine learning. Canonical URL: https://marcobiroli.github.io ## Background - PhD in theoretical physics, LPTMS, Université Paris-Saclay (2022–2025), advisor: Satya N. Majumdar. - MSc, École Normale Supérieure (summa cum laude). - BSc, École Polytechnique — double major physics & mathematics (summa cum laude). - Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=U4DVTL0AAAAJ - h-index 8, ~216 citations (April 2026). ## Publications - [First-passage resetting gas](https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ae3f4f) · Marco Biroli, Satya N. Majumdar, Grégory Schehr · Europhysics Letters 153, 31002, 2026 — A gas of Brownian particles whose collective reset is triggered by a first-passage event — the first one to reach a threshold drags the others back. Correlations, stationary density, and extreme-value statistics in this first-passage-coupled setting. - arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00440 - [Dynamically emergent correlations in Brownian particles subject to simultaneous non-Poissonian resetting protocols](https://doi.org/10.1103/vmhz-6h5s) · Gabriele de Mauro, Marco Biroli, Satya N. Majumdar, Grégory Schehr · Physical Review E 113, 014120, 2026 — Generalizes the correlated Brownian gas to non-Poissonian resetting protocols — deterministic, power-law, heavy-tailed. The shape of the inter-reset distribution reshapes the correlation structure. - arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06658 - [Experimental evidence for strong emergent correlations between particles in a switching trap](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07199) · Marco Biroli, Sergio Ciliberto, Manas Kulkarni, Satya N. Majumdar, Artyom Petrosyan, Grégory Schehr · arXiv preprint, 2025 — An optical-tweezers experiment that directly measures the emergent correlations predicted for particles in a stochastically switching trap — the first experimental realization of the mechanism. - [Resetting Dyson Brownian motion](https://doi.org/10.1103/d29k-kmcs) · Marco Biroli, Satya N. Majumdar, Grégory Schehr · Physical Review E 112, 014101, 2025 — Dyson Brownian motion of N eigenvalues, reset simultaneously. Stationary density, extreme-eigenvalue statistics, and the crossover between resetting-dominated and repulsion-dominated regimes. - arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14733 - [Strongly correlated stochastic systems](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12818) · Marco Biroli · arXiv preprint (PhD thesis / review), 2025 — A unified review of the strongly-correlated stochastic systems that motivated the papers above: resetting as a correlation-generating mechanism, exactly solvable gas models, extreme and order statistics in the correlated regime. - [Exact extreme, order, and sum statistics in a class of strongly correlated systems](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.014101) · Marco Biroli, Hernán Larralde, Satya N. Majumdar, Grégory Schehr · Physical Review E 109, 014101, 2024 — A class of strongly correlated systems where the joint distribution factorizes after conditioning on a single random variable — enabling closed-form extreme, order, and sum statistics. - arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15351 - [Resetting by rescaling: exact results for a diffusing particle in one dimension](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.044142) · Marco Biroli, Yannick Feld, Alexander K. Hartmann, Satya N. Majumdar, Grégory Schehr · Physical Review E 110, 044142, 2024 — A diffusing particle whose position is rescaled (rather than reset to the origin) at Poisson events. Exact stationary distribution and large-deviation tails, with numerical checks. - arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08387 - [Dynamically emergent correlations between particles in a switching harmonic trap](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032106) · Marco Biroli, Manas Kulkarni, Satya N. Majumdar, Grégory Schehr · Physical Review E 109, L032106, 2024 — Non-interacting particles in a harmonic trap whose stiffness switches stochastically develop non-trivial correlations purely from the shared environmental noise. - arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02570 - [Critical number of walkers for diffusive search processes with resetting](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.107.064141) · Marco Biroli, Satya N. Majumdar, Grégory Schehr · Physical Review E 107, 064141, 2023 — For N searchers independently diffusing with resetting, the mean first-passage time to a target has a non-monotonic dependence on N — we characterize the critical number of walkers below which a single fast walker beats the crowd. - arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.18012 - [Extreme statistics and spacing distribution in a Brownian gas correlated by resetting](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.207101) · Marco Biroli, Hernán Larralde, Satya N. Majumdar, Grégory Schehr · Physical Review Letters 130, 207101, 2023 — N Brownian particles on a line, each simultaneously reset to the origin at rate r. The shared resetting event alone correlates otherwise-independent particles; we derive the resulting order-statistics and spacing distributions in closed form. - arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00563 - [Number of distinct sites visited by a resetting random walker](https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ac6b69) · Marco Biroli, Francesco Mori, Satya N. Majumdar · Journal of Physics A 55, 244001, 2022 — Exact results for the mean and full distribution of the number of distinct sites visited by a lattice random walker subject to stochastic resetting. - arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04906 - [Time, privacy, robustness, accuracy: trade-offs for the open vote network protocol](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15911-4_2) · Fatima-Ezzahra El Orche, Rémi Géraud-Stewart, Peter B. Rønne, Gergei Bana, David Naccache, Peter YA Ryan, Marco Biroli, Megi Dervishi, Hugo Waltsburger · E-Vote-ID 2022 (LNCS 13553), 2022 — A cryptography / e-voting paper from an earlier collaboration: analysis of the open vote network protocol along the axes of time, privacy, robustness, and accuracy. ## Notes - [A fresh site](https://marcobiroli.github.io/notes/welcome) · 2026-04-18 — Why this redesign, and what to expect here. - Raw markdown: https://marcobiroli.github.io/notes/welcome.md ## Related endpoints - Full prose dump: https://marcobiroli.github.io/llms-full.txt - BibTeX of all publications: https://marcobiroli.github.io/papers.bib - RSS feed (notes): https://marcobiroli.github.io/rss.xml - Sitemap: https://marcobiroli.github.io/sitemap-index.xml