Publications and preprints

1. Richard Golnik, Thomas Gatter, Peter F. Stadler, Nicola Vassena
   Enumeration of Autocatalytic Subsystems in Large Chemical Reaction Networks
   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.5c01979
   Preprint (2026)

2. Angela Stevens and Nicola Vassena
   Mathematical modeling and analysis of the Notch-Delta pathway
   Preprint (2026)

3. Richard Golnik, Thomas Gatter, Peter F. Stadler, Nicola Vassena
   Autocatalytic Cores in Reaction Networks with Explicit Catalysis
   Preprint (2026)

4. Richard Golnik, Thomas Gatter, Nicola Vassena, Peter F. Stadler
   Using MR-Chordless Circuits for Efficient Enumeration of Autocatalytic Cores in Large Chemical Reaction Networks
   Preprint (2025)

5. Alexander Blokhuis, Peter F. Stadler, Nicola Vassena
   Stoichiometric recipes for periodic oscillations in reaction networks
   Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society A
   Preprint (2025)

6. Kevin E. M. Church, Jia-Yuan Dai, Olivier Hénot, Phillipo Lappicy, Nicola Vassena
   Global Continuation of Stable Periodic Orbits in Systems of Competing Predators
   Accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
   Preprint (2025)

7. Richard Golnik, Thomas Gatter, Peter F. Stadler, Nicola Vassena
   BiRNe: Symbolic bifurcation analysis of reaction networks with Python
   Preprint (2025)

8. Nicola Vassena
   Mass action systems: two criteria for Hopf bifurcation without Hurwitz
   SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics: 85, 3. https://doi.org/10.1137/24M166689.
   Preprint (2025)

9. Alejandro López-Nieto, Phillipo Lappicy, Nicola Vassena, Hannes Stuke, Jia-Yuan Dai
   Hybrid Bifurcations: Periodicity from Eliminating a Line of Equilibria
   Mathematische Annalen; 391: 6373–6399 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-024-03081-7 (2025)

10. Nicola Vassena, Florin Avram, Rim Adenane
    Finding bifurcations in mathematical epidemiology via reaction network methods
    Chaos, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science; 34 (12): 123163. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0221082 (2024)

11. Nicola Vassena and Peter F. Stadler
    Unstable Cores are the source of instability in Chemical Reaction Networks
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 480, 20230694. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2023.0694 (2024)
    Preprint

12. Nicola Vassena
    Structural obstruction to the simplicity of the eigenvalue zero in chemical reaction networks
    Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences: 47, 4. https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.9790 (2023)

13. Nicola Vassena
    Symbolic hunt of instabilities and bifurcations in reaction networks
    Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2023190 (2023)

14. Nicola Vassena
    Structural Conditions for Saddle-node Bifurcations in Chemical Reaction Networks
    SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 22: 1639-1672. doi: 10.1137/22M1527933 (2023)
    Preprint

15. Nicola Vassena
    Sign-sensitivity of metabolic networks: which structures determine the sign of the responses
    International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, doi: 10.1002/rnc.5896 (2021)
    Preprint

16. Nicola Vassena
    Sensitivity of metabolic networks: perturbing metabolite concentrations
    Preprint (2020)

17. Nicola Vassena
    Good and bad children in metabolic networks
    Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 17(6): 7621-7644. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2020388 (2020)
    Preprint

18. Nicola Vassena
    Sensitivity of metabolic networks
    Ph.D. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin (2020)

19. Nicola Vassena
    Sensitivity of monomolecular reaction networks: signed flux-response to reaction rate perturbations ECCTD 2017 Proceedings IEEE doi: 10.1109/ECCTD.2017.8093332 (2017)

20. Nicola Vassena and Hiroshi Matano
    Monomolecular reaction networks: flux-influenced sets and balloons
    Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences: 40, 18. doi: 10.1002/mma.4557 (2017)