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Francesco Varrato

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For this edition of the DC Lunch Talks series, the discussion centered around Data-Driven Approaches to sustainability at EPFL, a topic of significant relevance in the contemporary academic landscape. The event featured a series of short talks by experts w ...

2024

Open-Source Software Adoption in Academic Libraries: An Inevitable Path Forward

Francesco Varrato

Academic libraries are dynamic entities, constantly evolving to meet the changing needs of students, researchers, professors, and the broader academic community. As a Research Data Management Specialist at EPFL and ex researcher, I have observed the transf ...

2023

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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

README file for datasets - Best practices and template

Alain Borel, Francesco Varrato, Chiara Gabella

These documents guide researchers in writing a README file for their datasets (data and code), through best practices and an example template. The template is also available as a separate .txt file. ...

2022

Landscape of data repositories and platforms

Francesco Varrato, Charlotte Gisèle Weil, Eliane Ninfa Blumer, Miriam Braskova

Scholarly Communication is still shifting from papers to richer content, as for instance research data and code. Data dissemination has a crucial role and yet it is in its infancy, with visible fragmentation and too many unknowns for researchers to get onb ...

2021

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This is a set of 11 1-sheet guides, providing abridged notions, advice and references for quick and practical research data management: #01 Research Data: the basics #02 FAIR Data Principles #03 Cost of Research Data Management #04 File Formats #05 Metadat ...

2019

RDM Walkthrough Guide

Alain Borel, Francesco Varrato

Collected information on research data management topics, throughout the research data lifecycle. ...

EPFL Library2019

Aggregation dynamics, structure, and mechanical properties of bigels

Francesco Varrato, Giuseppe Foffi, Davide Fiocco

Recently we have introduced bigels, inter-penetrating gels made of two different colloidal species. Even if particles with simple short-range isotropic potential are employed, the selective interactions enable the tunability of the self-assembly, leading t ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Multistep kinetic self-assembly of DNA-coated colloids

Francesco Varrato, Giuseppe Foffi

Equilibrium self-assembly relies on the relaxation of disordered mixtures of building blocks towards an ordered ground state. The main drawback of this traditional approach lies in the kinetic traps that often interrupt the progression of the system toward ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Enhanced tunneling conductivity induced by gelation of attractive colloids

Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Francesco Varrato, Giuseppe Foffi, Biagio Nigro

We show that the formation of a gel by conducting colloidal particles leads to a dramatic enhancement in bulk conductivity, due to interparticle electron tunneling, combining predictions from molecular-dynamics simulations with structural measurements in a ...

Amer Physical Soc2013