Publications by Francesco Varrato

Quantitative Assessment of Research Data Management Practices - 2023

This survey investigates Research Data Management (RDM) practices across five Swiss higher education institutions, including EPFL, ETH Zürich, Eawag, FHNW, and DaSCH, with the goal of gathering insights into how researchers manage data and code throughout ...

Zenodo2024

Quantitative assessment of research data management practice - 2021

Chiara Gabella, Francesco Varrato, Eliane Ninfa Blumer

This survey aims to investigate research data management practices at EPFL and integrate their results into specific academic services. The previous two editions, in collaboration with TU Delft, Cambridge University and Illinois University, were carried ou ...

2022

Routes to Novel Colloidal Gels

Francesco Varrato

The thesis describes how demixing of binary colloidal mixtures could be used to design new kinds of amorphous structures. We show that a rich phase behavior emerges, dependent on density (colloidal concentration) and composition (species relative populatio ...

EPFL2012

Arrested demixing opens route to bigels

Nicolas Dorsaz, Giuseppe Foffi, Francesco Varrato, Maxim Belushkin

Understanding and, ultimately, controlling the properties of amorphous materials is one of the key goals of material science. Among the different amorphous structures, a very important role is played by colloidal gels. It has been only recently understood ...

National Academy of Sciences2012

Apollonian Packings as Physical Fractals (vol 109, pg 2663, 2011)

Giuseppe Foffi, Francesco Varrato

Taylor & Francis2011

Apollonian packings as physical fractals

Giuseppe Foffi, Francesco Varrato

The Apollonian packings (APs) of spheres are fractals that result from a space-filling procedure. We discuss the finite size effects for finite intervals s is an element of [s(min), s(max)] between the largest and the smallest sizes of the filling spheres. ...

Taylor & Francis2011

Apollonian packings as physical fractals

Giuseppe Foffi, Francesco Varrato

The Apollonian packings (APs) of spheres are fractals that result from a space-filling procedure. We discuss the finite size effects for finite intervals s is an element of [s(min), s(max)] between the largest and the smallest sizes of the filling spheres. ...

Taylor & Francis2011