Lorenzo Contento
Dr. Lorenzo Contento
ORCID iD 0000-0002-7901-2172
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Affiliations
  • Life and Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES)
Research topics
  • Infectious Disease Modeling
  • Neural ODEs
  • Particle Filters
Lorenzo Contento obtained his Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Udine (Italy) in 2012. He was awarded his PhD from Meiji University (Tokyo, Japan) in 2013; his thesis, supervised by Prof. Masayasu Mimura and Prof. Danielle Hilhorst (CNRS / ParisSud Univ.), focused on two-dimensional traveling waves and pattern formation observed in a three-species competition-diffusion system. He then spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow at MIMS (Meiji Institute for the Advanced Study of Mathematical Science), where he continued his research on mathematical modeling, pattern formation and competitive exclusion. Since April 2020 he is a postdoc in Prof. Hasenauer's lab at the University of Bonn, where he is working mainly on compartmental ODE modeling for the Covid-19 epidemic (in the context of the greater KoCo19 project) and analysis of highly multiplexed cell-resolution images acquired via the CODEX fluorescence imaging technique.
Selected publications

L. Contento, M. Mimura. Complex pattern formation driven by the interaction of stable fronts in a competition-diffusion system. Journal of Mathematical Biology 80, pp 303–342, Jan 2020 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-019-01370-3


L. Contento, D. Hilhorst, M. Mimura. Ecological invasion in competition-diffusion systems when the exotic species is either very strong or very weak. Journal of Mathematical Biology 77(5), pp 1383–1405, Nov 2018 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-018-1256-4


L. Contento, M. Mimura, M. Tohma. Two-dimensional traveling waves arising from planar front interaction in a three-species competition-diffusion system. Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics 32(3), pp 707–747, Nov 2015 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13160-015-0186-4


L. Contento, A. Ern, R. Vermiglio. A linear-time approximate convex envelope algorithm using the double Legendre–Fenchel transform with application to phase separation. Computational Optimization and Applications 60(1), pp 231–261, Jan 2015 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10589-014-9666-8

Lorenzo Contento
Dr. Lorenzo Contento

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