Angela De Sanctis

(+39) 085 453.7535
a.desanctis@unich.it

in italiano

Academic post

Associate Professor in Mathematical Methods for Economics, University "Gabriele d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara

Academic qualifications

• Degree with honors in Mathematics, University of l'Aquila
• Scholarship awared to attend post-graduate study at I.N.D.A.M. (National Institute for Advanced Studies in Mathematics), Roma
• Scholarship awared to attend Ph.D.'s study in Mathematics, University of Roma Consortium
• Post-graduate Summer schools in "Dynamical Systems" (Cortona, IT) and "Stochastic Differential Geometry and Applications in Finance" (Thermos, GR)

Academic teaching appointments

• Department of Political Science, L.U.I.S.S. University of Roma (untenured position)
• Department of Economics, Department of Management and Department of Engineering, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara
• ERASMUS lectures at the University of Patras (GR)

Research areas

• Differential Geometry and Topology
• Information Geometry
• Shape Analysis
• Functional Data Analysis
• Nonlinear Analysis and Complex Systems in social and biological Sciences

Papers

• A. De Sanctis, G. Sorani "Coomologia di un campo vettoriale mai nullo" - Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, estratto dai Rendiconti della Classe di Scienze fisiche, matematiche, naturali, series VIII vol. LXXI no. 6, December 1981
• A. De Sanctis "Perturbations of Geodesic Flows and Length of the Closed Geodesics"-Estratto dal Bollettino della Unione Matematica Italiana (7) I-B pag 1107-1128, Zanichelli Editore, 1987
• A. De Sanctis "Analisi di un modello stocastico per lo studio di fenomeni collettivi", XI A.M.A.S.E.S. Conference Papers, Torino - Aosta 1987
• A. De Sanctis, G.Weinrich "Non Walrasian equilibria in a labour-managed economy"- Lecture notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 399 pag. 139-175, 1991
• A. De Sanctis "Geodesic submanifolds of one family of statistical models" - Statistics and Probability Letters, 30 pag 127-132, 1996
• A. De Sanctis, D.Di Spalatro "Analisi intrinseca della disuguaglianza di Cramer-Rao", XXV A.M.A.S.E.S. Conference Papers, Firenze  2001
• A. De Sanctis "La geometria delle famiglie di distribuzioni di probabilit esponenziali", Statistica, LXII, n. 2, 2002
• A. De Sanctis "Exact asymptotics on Zoll surfaces", International Mathematical Journal, Vol. 2, pag. 1119-1124, no. 11, 2002
• A. De Sanctis "Derivazione entropica di un modello generalizzato del prezzo di un'opzione di Black-Scholes", XXVII A.M.A.S.E.S. Conference Papers, Cagliari 2003
• A. De Sanctis "Ergodicity in Science and Society with Application to Information Geometry" International Mathematical Forum, vol.1, no.5-8, 2006
• A. De Sanctis, C. Mari “An excitable stochastic model of electricity prices dynamics”, XXX A.M.A.S.E.S. Conference Papers, Trieste 2006
• A. De Sanctis "Lie Theory to valuing financial derivatives with time dependent parameters", International Mathematical Forum, vol. 2, no. 10, 2007
• A. De Sanctis, C. Mari "Modeling spikes in electricity markets using excitable dynamics", Physica A, vol.384, Issue 2, pag. 457-467, 2007
• A. De Sanctis, C. Mari "Modeling spikes in natural and social phenomena", Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems, vol. 11, no.2, pag. 212-214, 2008
• T. Di Battista , S.A. Gattone and A. De Sanctis, "Dealing with FDA Estimation Methods", New Perspectives in Statistical Modeling in Data Analysis, Springer, New York, 2010
• A. De Sanctis "Information Geometry of a Regime-Switching Model with time-varying parameters", Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 267-276, 2010
• A. De Sanctis Note Added to “Information Geometry of a Regime-Switching Model with time-varying parameters”, Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 102-105, 2011
• A. De Sanctis, T. Di Battista “Functional Analysis for Parametric Families of Functional Data”, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 22, no. 9, 2012
• A. De Sanctis “Shape Analysis for Complex Systems using Information Geometry tools”,  Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 70-73, 2012
• A. De Sanctis, C. Mari “Modellizzazione dei sistemi complessi: un'introduzione metodologica”, Science & Philosophy, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 29-36, 2013
• A. De Sanctis, S. A. Gattone “A study of Complex Shapes using Information Geometry”, Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 70-80, 2015
• A. De Sanctis, S. A. Gattone “Fisher Information Geometry for Shape Analysis”, The 3rd International Electronic and Flipped Conference on Entropy and Applications (ECEA 2016), Sciforum Electronic Conference Series, vol. 3, 2016
• A.De Sanctis, S.A. Gattone “ Methods of Information Geometry to model complex shapes”, European Physical Journal-Special topics 225, pp.1271-1279, 2016, Springer-Verlag
• A. De Sanctis, S.A. Gattone “A new approach for modeling bone response to dental implant materials”, Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials Bone Response to Dental Implant Materials, 2017 Elsevier
• T. Di Battista, A. De Sanctis, F. Fortuna “Clustering Functional Data on Convex Function Spaces”, Topics on Methodological and Applied Statistical Inference, 2016 Springer
• A. De Sanctis, A. Porreca, F. Maturo "Complex systems in Economic and Social Science: an application of the Goodwin model to Italy using the statistical Software R", Systemic actions in complex scenarios, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
• S. A. Gattone, A. De Sanctis, T. Russo, D. Pulcini "A shape distance based on the Fisher- Rao metric and its application for shapes clustering", Physica A, vol. 487, pag. 93-102, 2017
• A. De Sanctis, S. A. Gattone “A comparison between Wasserstein distance and a distance induced by Fisher-Rao metric in complex shapes clustering”, Proceedings, presented at the 4th International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications, 21 November–1 December 2017
• S. A. Gattone, A. De Sanctis, S. Puechmorel , F. Nicol “On the geodesic distance in shapes K-means clustering”, Entropy, special issue of the 4th International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications, 2018
• A. De Sanctis (editor) “Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems”, vol. 23, no. 2, 2020
  • T. Bountis, A. De Sanctis, M. Robnik, and J. J. P. Veerman “Preface”
  • A. Pasculli, F. Rizzo, M. Mangifesta, A. Viskovic, A. De Sanctis, G. Iezzi, V. Perrotti, A. Piattelli, and G. Aprile “Modeling of Screw-Dental Structure Interaction: First Step Toward Finite Element Analysis”, pp. 125 -129
  • V. Perrotti, G. Iezzi, A. De Sanctis, A. Pasculli, A. Piattelli, and G. Aprile “Correlation Between Bone Density and Fractal Di mension: A Pilot Study”, pp. 130 - 132
  • A. De Sanctis and S. A. Gattone “Information Geometry Tools for Shape Analysis”, pp. 243 - 250
  • F. D. Oikonomou and A. De Sanctis “Using the Alpha Geodesic Distance in Shapes K-Means Clustering”, pp. 251 – 253

Didactic Book

• A. De Sanctis “Elementi di matematica per le Scienze Applicate”, Maggioli Editore, 2015

Professional Associations and Research Centers

• Member of A.M.A.S.E.S (Association for Mathematics applied to Economic and Social Sciences)
• Member of S.I.C.C. (Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity)
• Member of Director Board of "International Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems", "G. d'Annunzio" University

International relations

• Member of local organizing Committee for the International Conference "Information geometry and its applications", Pescara 01/05.07.2002
• "Contact person" and "staff member" for Socrates-Erasmus Program with the University of Patras and Thessaly (Greece)
• Member of Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee for the International Conference "First Mediterranean Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and its Applications", Pescara 03/08.07.2008
• Member of Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee for the International Conference "Nonlinear Science and Complexity" Pescara 28/31.07.2009
• Member of Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee for the International Conference MTISD 2010, Pescara 12/15.09.2010
• Member of Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee for the Ph.D. Summer School on “Mathematical modeling of Complex Systems” Patras (GR) 18/29.07.2011, Pescara (IT) 16/28.07.2012 and Patras (GR) 20/30.07.2015