publications

The symbol ‘*’ indicates that the authors contributed equally.

preprints

  1. Sperm whale foraging combines persistent search with flexible prey-capture tactics, 2026 — L. Zaffina, C. Monti, S. Poetto, M. Lucas, H. J. Machado Borges, R. Deshpande, P. Tønnesen, D. F. Gruber, S. Gero, A. Santoro, and 1 more author
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  2. Random Recursive Simplicial Complexes, 2026 — P. L. Krapivsky and M. Lucas
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  3. Higher-order interactions for controlling time-delayed Kuramoto model, 2026 — N. Fujii, M. Moriamé, M. Lucas, H. Nakao, and T. Carletti
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  4. Symmetry-based selection rules for higher-order interactions in coupled oscillators, 2026 — I. Léon, R. Muolo, Y. Zhang, and M. Lucas
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  5. Minimal branching and fusion morphogenesis approaches biological multi-objective optimality, 2026 — M. Lucas*, C. Bisot*, G. Petri, S. Declerck, and T. Carletti
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  6. Mixed higher-order coupling stabilizes new states, 2025 — P. S. Skardal, F. Battiston, M. Lucas, M. S. Mizuhara, G. Petri, and Y. Zhang
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journal articles

  1. On the efficiency of pairwise Hamiltonian control to desynchronize the higher-order Kuramoto model, Chaos, 2026 — M. Moriamé, R. Muolo, T. Carletti, and M. Lucas
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  2. Cooperation by non-kin during birth underpins sperm whale social complexity, Science, 2026 — A. Maalouf*, J. DelPreto*, M. Lucas*, S. Poetto*, J. Andreas, A. Torralba, S. Gero, G. Petri, D. Rus, and D. F. Gruber
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  3. Description of a Collaborative Sperm Whale Birth and Shifts in Coda Vocal Styles during Key Events, Scientific Reports, 2026 — Y. Aluma, Z. Baron, R. Barrett, C. Baumgartner, G. Beguš, S. Bhattacharya, M. M. Bronstein, S. Dahan, O. Davis, S. Haas, and 37 more authors
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  4. Collective dynamics on higher-order networks, Nature Reviews Physics, 2026 — F. Battiston, C. Bick, M. Lucas, A. P. Millán, P. S. Skardal, and Y. Zhang
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  5. Reducibility of higher-order networks from dynamics, Nature Communications, 2026 — M. Lucas, L. Gallo, A. Ghavasieh, F. Battiston, and M. De Domenico
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  6. Topological analysis of brain dynamical signals indicates signatures of seizure susceptibility, Physical Review Research, 2025 — M. Lucas, D. Francois, L. Mombaerts, C. Donato, A. Skupin, and D. Proverbio
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  7. On the state-nonstate theory of hypnosis: Network and topological EEG findings, Cerebral Cortex, 2025 — M. Lucas*, N. Aime*, A. Callara, L. Fontanelli, L. Sebastiani, L. Santarcangelo, and G. Petri
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  8. Hamiltonian control to desynchronize Kuramoto oscillators with higher-order interactions, Physical Review E, 2025 — M. Moriamé, M. Lucas, and T. Carletti
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  9. Synergistic signatures of group mechanisms in higher-order systems, Physical Review Letters, 2025 — T. Robiglio, M. Neri, D. Coppes, C. Agostinelli, F. Battiston, M. Lucas, and G. Petri
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  10. Higher-order Laplacian Renormalization, Nature Physics, 2025 — M. Nurisso, M. Morandini, M. Lucas, F. Vaccarino, T. Gili, and G. Petri
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  11. Higher-order connectomics of human brain function reveals local topological signatures of task decoding, individual identification, and behavior, Nature Communications, 2024 — A. Santoro, F. Battiston, M. Lucas, G. Petri, and E. Amico
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  12. Deeper but smaller: Higher-order interactions increase linear stability but shrink basins, Science Advances, 2024 — Y. Zhang, P. S. Skardal, F. Battiston, G. Petri, and M. Lucas
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  13. On the Benefits of Heterogeneity in Cognitive Stability and Flexibility for Collaborative Task Switching, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024 — A. Brondetta, A. Bizyaeva, M. Lucas, G. Petri, and S. Musslick
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  14. Evidence of social learning across symbolic cultural barriers in sperm whales, eLife, 2024 — A. Leitão, M. Lucas, S. Poetto, T. A. Hersh, S. Gero, D. Gruber, M. Bronstein, and G. Petri
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  15. A unified framework for Simplicial Kuramoto models, Chaos, 2024 — M. Nurisso, A. Arnaudon, M. Lucas, R. L. Peach, P. Expert, F. Vaccarino, and G. Petri
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  16. Phasik: a Python package to identify system states in partially temporal networks, Journal of Open Source Software, 2023 — M. Lucas, A. Townsend-Teague, M. Neri, S. Poetto, A. Morris, B. H. Habermann, and L. Tichit
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  17. XGI: A Python package for higher-order interaction networks, Journal of Open Source Software, 2023 — N. W. Landry, M. Lucas, I. Iacopini, G. Petri, A. Schwarze, A. Patania, and L. Torres
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  18. Higher-order interactions shape collective dynamics differently in hypergraphs and simplicial complexes, Nature Communications, 2023 — Y. Zhang*, M. Lucas*, and F. Battiston
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  19. Simplicially driven simple contagion, Physical Review Research, 2023 — M. Lucas*, I. Iacopini*, T. Robiglio, A. Barrat, and G. Petri
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  20. Inferring cell cycle phases from a partially temporal network of protein interactions, Cell Reports Methods, 2023 — M. Lucas, A. Morris, A. Townsend-Teague, L. Tichit, B. H. Habermann, and A. Barrat
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  21. Stabilization of cyclic processes by slowly varying forcing, Chaos, 2021 — J. Newman, M. Lucas, and A. Stefanovska
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  22. Multiorder Laplacian for synchronization in higher-order networks, Physical Review Research, 2020 — M. Lucas, G. Cencetti, and F. Battiston
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  23. Networks beyond pairwise interactions: structure and dynamics, Physics Reports, 2020 — F. Battiston, G. Cencetti, I. Iacopini, V. Latora, M. Lucas, A. Patania, J.-G. Young, and G. Petri
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  24. Nonautonomous driving induces stability in network of identical oscillators, Physical Review E, 2019 — M. Lucas, D. Fanelli, and A. Stefanovska
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  25. Desynchronization induced by time-varying network, Europhys. Lett., 2018 — M. Lucas, D. Fanelli, T. Carletti, and J. Petit
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  26. Stabilization of dynamics of oscillatory systems by nonautonomous perturbation, Physical Review E, 2018 — M. Lucas, J. Newman, and A. Stefanovska
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  27. Verifying the Steane code with Quantomatic, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2014 — R. Duncan and M. Lucas
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book chapters

  1. Multiorder Laplacian for Kuramoto Dynamics with Higher-Order Interactions, In Higher-Order Systems, 2022 — M. Lucas, G. Cencetti, and F. Battiston
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  2. Synchronisation and Non-autonomicity, In Physics of Biological Oscillators, 2021 — M. Lucas, J. Newman, and A. Stefanovska
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  3. Non-asymptotic-time Dynamics, In Physics of Biological Oscillators, 2021 — J. Newman, M. Lucas, and A. Stefanovska
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theses

  1. Synchronisation and stability in nonautonomous oscillatory systems, Lancaster University and University of Florence, 2019 — M. Lucas
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  2. Instabilities in cortical networks with embedded synfire chains, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2015 — M. Lucas
  3. Instabilités dynamiques de systèmes de billards avec interactions rares, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2014 — M. Lucas