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    • Sreekanth K. Manikandan
    • Antonio Ciarlo
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    • Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence 2024
    • AIM24 — Artificial Intelligence for iMaging 2024
    • Symposium of AI, Neuroscience, and Aging
    • Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence 2023
    • AI networking between academia and industry
    • AI for Scientific Data Analysis
    • Active days EUTOPIA – Challenges in Active Matter
    • CY Cergy Paris University – Gothenburg University Workshop, 20-21 October, 2022
    • Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence 2022
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    • Optical Manipulation and Its Applications 2019
    • Kickoff Meeting 2019
    • Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference 2018
    • Optical Trapping Summer School 2018
    • From Active Matter to Complex Fluids 2018
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    • Experimental Flowing Matter Workshop 2016
    • Experimental Flowing Matter Training School 2016
    • Optical Trapping Applications 2015
    • Flowing Matter Meeting 2015
    • COST IC1208 General Meeting 2015
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NEWS

  • Fredrik Skärberg defended his PhD thesis on January 29th, 2026. Congrats!
  • Roadmap on Deep Learning for Microscopy published in Journal of Physics: Photonics
  • Berenice García will defend her PhD thesis on January 28th, 2026. Congrats!

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Publications

Since 2004, Giovanni Volpe has authored more than 110 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals with over 9000 citations and h-index=49 (Google Scholar); furthermore, he has been invited on numerous occasions to speak at international conferences and seminars. You can find Giovanni Volpe’s detailed citation statistics at ResearcherID or Google Scholar.

Recent Articles (all articles)

  • Roadmap on Deep Learning for Microscopy published in Journal of Physics: Photonics
  • Inchworm-Inspired Soft Robot with Groove-Guided Locomotion on ArXiv
  • Enhanced spatial clustering of single-molecule localizations with graph neural networks published in Nature Communications
  • Myxococcus xanthus for active matter studies: a tutorial for its growth and potential applications published in Soft Matter
  • Video‐rate tunable colour electronic paper with human resolution published in Nature

Presentations

  • Hang Zhao presented his half-time seminar on 22 January 2026
  • Presentation by S. K. Manikandan at The Arctic Meeting for Adaptive Mechanisms in Biological Systems, Abisko, Sweden, January 21, 2026
  • Workshop by Y.-W. Chang at NEMES 2025, Gothenburg, 26 September 2025
  • Presentation by Y.-W. Chang at NEMES 2025, Gothenburg, 26 September 2025
  • Poster by A. Lech at BNMI 2025, Gothenburg, 20 August 2025

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