The research activity of Paolo De Los Rios focuses on applications of statistical physics to biological systems and to the structure of complex networks. Understanding the physics of biological molecules
Many-body physics and optical properties of electronic excitations in semiconductor nanostructures. Quantum optics and photonics. Quantum gases and collective phenomena.
Elasticity and mechanical stability in disordered solids, granular and suspension flows, glass and rigidity transitions, marginal stability at random close packing and other glasses, yielding transition and elasto-plasticity