His research interests focus on artificial life, both as bio-inspired computational techniques and as modeling of biological phenomena principally using concepts and instruments of network science. Part of Mario Giacobini’s research activity is carried out at the Molecular Biotechnolgy Center of the University of Torino, where he is the principal investigator of the Complex Systems Unit. He has an Erdos number of 3 thanks to his more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences.