Francesco Bertolotti

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I am an assistant professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where I study how to apply and extend computational simulation methodologies and artificial intelligence to different kinds of complex social systems in the department of Philosophy. I teach Digital Thinking at Università Cattolica and Dynamical System Design and Statistical Methods at LIUC - Università Cattaneo. I hold a PhD from LIUC – Università Cattaneo, with a thesis titled “Risk Preferences Adaptation in Complex Adaptation Systems.” I consider myself an interdisciplinary (or, even better, antidisciplinary) scholar, and the fields I am mostly interested in are:

• application and advancements of agent-based modeling
• GenAI applications to complexity
• complexity in healthcare
• computational cliodynamics
• risk preferences adaptation in complex systems

I have been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk), Eindhoven University of Technology (IS & IE group), and the University of the Balearic Islands (Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems - IFISC).

I am co-founder and research associate at the Intelligence, Complexity and Technology Lab (ICT Lab), where I am involved in the study of the intersection between complex systems and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on LLMs and emergent behaviours.
I am also a research fellow at HD-LAB - Healthcare Datascience Lab, where I am involved in the use of computational methods to study and support the Italian healthcare system.

I am (or was) one of the co-organizers of the following scientific events:

• AI and Complexity Workshop
• Complex R.O.M.E. (Complexity Research on Modelling Historical Evolution) series of workshops
• Net4Health Satellite at NetSci 2025
• WWCS 2025 (Winter Workshop on Complex Systems)

I am a co-author of the book “L’intelligenza artificiale di Dostojievski".

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