marco mancastroppa

Postdoctoral Scholar

INSERM
Paris, France


email: marco.mancastroppa (at) inserm.fr 

​Bluesky: @marco.mancastroppa.bsky.social

Short bio

Marco Mancastroppa earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Parma (Italy) in 2022, with a thesis on epidemic processes in adaptive temporal networks, focusing on the interplay between social dynamics and disease spreading. He then joined the Centre de Physique Théorique (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université) in Marseille (France) as a postdoctoral researcher in the Complex Systems and Complex Networks group. There, his research focused on the characterization of group interactions in social systems, the generation of synthetic temporal networks, and the fundamental understanding of contagion processes on networks, including the role of higher-order adaptive behaviours. In June 2026, he joined the EPIcx lab to work on the network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections.

Research activities

Marco’s research interests focus on the understanding of contagion phenomena on networks, from both fundamental and applied perspectives. His research mainly investigates how spreading processes are shaped by the properties of the underlying interactions driving them. He is also interested in the modelling of adaptive behaviours coupling network structure and contagion dynamics. At EPIcx, Marco works on the spread of healthcare-associated infections in France, investigating how the structure and temporal evolution of the healthcare network influence the spread of pathogens across hospitals and assessing intervention strategies for propagation control.

EPIcx lab, 27 rue Chaligny, 75012, Paris, France

INSERM - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Sorbonne Université, Faculté de Santé
IPLESP UMR-S 1136, site Hôpital St Antoine
Sorbonne Université Modeling Outbreaks Center (SUMOC)