Local PI of Variational methods for stationary and evolution problems with singularities and interfaces, awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, 53,000€
Academic positions
2020–present
Full Professor of Mathematical Analysis
2012–2019
Associate Professor of Mathematical Analysis
Fall 2007
Visiting Professor
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, USA
2004–2011
Assistant Professor of Mathematical Analysis
SISSA, Trieste
2001–2003
Postdoctoral researcher
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Education
2001
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Functional Analysis and Applications sector, SISSA
Thesis: The calibration method for free-discontinuity problems on small domains (download)
Advisor: Gianni Dal Maso (SISSA)
1997
Degree in Mathematics with full marks and honours, Università di Parma
Thesis: Nonlocal Approximation of Free Discontinuity Problems
Advisors: Emilio Acerbi (Università di Parma) and Massimo Gobbino (Università di Pisa)
Grants
Recipient, together with Cy Maor, of the Vigevani Research Project Prize awarded by the Vigevani Foundation, 15,000$
Local PI of Variational methods for stationary and evolution problems with singularities and interfaces, awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research, 91,000€
PI of Plasticity at different scales: micro to macro, awarded by the Università di Pavia, 60,000€
Distinctions
- Habilitation as Full Professor of Mathematical Analysis, 2013
- Semi-plenary speaker at the XXI Congresso dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Pavia, 2–7 September 2019
- Plenary speaker at the Second Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting AN20, virtual conference originally scheduled in Toronto, Canada, 6–17 July 2020
- Plenary speaker at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science MS20, virtual conference originally scheduled in Bilbao, Spain, 17–27 May 2021
- Speaker at the One World PDE Seminar, 29 June 2021
- Lecturer at the Summerschool on Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Münster, Germany, 12–16 September 2022
- Lecturer at the Hausdorff School Analysis of PDEs: Variational and Geometric Perspectives, Bonn, Germany, 10–14 July 2023
- Plenary speaker at the 94th GAMM Annual Meeting, Magdeburg, Germany, 18–22 March 2024
- Lecturer at the Second Vito Volterra Meeting in Calculus of Variations, Roma, 24–28 June 2024
- Lecturer at the Summer School on Geometric Analysis and PDEs, Chęciny, Poland, 22–27 June 2025
Editorial activity
- I am in the editorial board of the journal Interfaces and Free Boundaries
Supervision
Ph.D. students
- Lucia Scardia Ph.D. SISSA 2007, co-supervised with G. Dal Maso. Now Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University, UK.
- Elisa Davoli Ph.D. SISSA 2012. Now Full Professor at TU Vienna, Austria.
- Giovanni Battista Maggiani Ph.D. Università di Pavia 2017.
- Edoardo Giovanni Tolotti Ph.D. Università di Pavia 2025. Now postdoc at Universität Münster, Germany.
Postdoctoral fellows mentored at Università di Pavia
- Filippo Riva 2021–2022.
- Konstantinos Bessas Since 2023.
Research visits
2023
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
2022
Université Paris-Saclay
France
2018
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
2016, 2017, 2018
University of Bath
Bath, United Kingdom
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
SISSA
Trieste, Italy
2012
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
2011, 2018
Université Paris 6
Paris, France
2009
Courant Institute
New York, USA
2009
Université Paris Nord
France
2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, USA
2008
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, USA
2005, 2006, 2007
Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig, Germany