A winter sunset in Trieste, 2023

Vitor M. Marquioni

About Me

I am a physicist by training, with a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil). My background is in statistical mechanics, dynamical systems, and stochastic processes. I am currently a CENTURI postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Florence Bansept’s lab (the Mathematical Modeling of Microbiomes Group), at the Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (LCB), Marseille, France. In my research, I apply mathematical modeling techniques to understand biological phenomena, particularly those related to ecology and evolution.

My Erdos number is 5.
You can reach me out by email, vitor.MARQUIONI-MONTEIRO@univ-amu.fr.
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A gut full of life

In recent years, I have been mostly interested in microbial communities. Wherever we zoom in, we are going to find a multitude of microbes. They thrive while processing nutrients from their surroundings, leaving behind chemical compounds that can be used by other microbes or even by the environment itself. Within the gut, this picture is very clear, with microbes involved in different metabolic pathways, producing metabolites that are later assimilated by their host. It is therefore not surprising that the “gut microbiome” has many correlations with the host’s health. Learning how to manipulate and control this community in order to improve health is one of the main goals of gut microbiome research - and I do that mathematically!

Projects

I have worked on different scientific projects and you can check them here. (Under construction) View all projects…

Are you bored?

You can try this funny nerd game: The wikigame.

Or check out some interesting spurious correlations here.

You can find more than a hundred different proofs for the Pythagoras’ theorem.