About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in mathematics at Leipzig University, hosted by the bioinformatics group of Peter Stadler. My position is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation as a member of the MATOMIC consortium. Before, I have been a member of the Walter Benjamin Program of the DFG (German research society) at the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics of Leipzig University, leading a project on Zero-eigenvalue bifurcations in Chemical Reaction Networks.

I completed my Ph.D. at Freie Universität Berlin in 2020, in the Nonlinear Dynamics group, under the supervision of Bernold Fiedler.

My research currently focuses on structural network conditions for the occurrence of bifurcations in dynamical systems arising from biochemical and ecological networks.

For more details, please refer to my publications and CV. Feel free to contact me at nicola.vassena (at) uni-leipzig.de.

Teaching:
In the Summer Semester 2026, I will teach a module (lecture + seminar) on Reaction Network Theory at Leipzig University.

Autocatalysis seminar:
Together with Alex Blokhuis, Wei-Hsiang Lin, Praful Gagrani, I organize an interdisciplinary seminar series centered on autocatalysisis in reaction networks.

https://researchseminars.org/seminar/AutocatalysisRN

If you would like to give a talk or just receive the announcements you can fill up this google form, or simply write me.