Prof. Zapperi in an expert in the statistical physics of complex systems and has contributed to the fields of materials science, biophysics and systems biology. His most notable contributions include the theory of the Barkhausen noise in magnets, the statistical physics of plasticity and fracture, and recent work on the physics of cancer and protein aggregation. He published more than 200 scientific papers in the top scientific journals, including 4 in Nature, 3 in Science, 5 in PNAS and 32 in Phys. Rev. Lett. gathering more than 10000 citations (scholar). In 2017, he co-authored with Caterina La Porta a book on the Physics of Cancer. Prof. Zapperi is the recipient of numerous awards including the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Humboldt Research Award, the Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. He was elected fellow of the American Physical Society and named Finland Distinguished Professor by the Academy of Finland. He is member of the editorial boards of JSTAT and Physical Biology.