Vitæ

Work Experience

• July 2020 – Present.  Senior Lecturer (tenure) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

• July 2018 – June 2020. Lecturer (tenure-track) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

• Nov. 2016 – June 2018. Research Assistant at University of Roma II, Tor Vergata.

• Aug. 2013 – Aug. 2016. Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University, USA.

• Oct. 2011 – July 2013. Postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Education

Sept. 2008 – Oct. 2011. Ph.D. in mathematics supervised by Vaughan Jones and Andrzej Zuk in the University of Paris Diderot and as a guest in UC Berkeley. 

• • Dissertation title : Planar algebras and maximal abelian subalgebras in von Neumann algebras.

• Sept. 2007 – July 2008. Master 2 in Pure Mathematics - Non Commutative Geometry in the University of Paris Diderot, (with outstanding honor).

• 2006 – 2007. Agregation of Mathematics.

• 2004. Admission at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France. 

Prize

• 2022. Honourable Mention for The Blue Hat Prize for the talk entitled "Forest-skein groups" at the 66th Annual Meeting of The Australian Mathematical Society. This award recompenses the four best non-student talks (over more than 100 talks). 

• 2016. Winner of the Samir Aldroubi and Amira Azhari Prize for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research which is awarded every two years to recognize the research achievements of current and recent postdoctoral fellows in the department of Mathematics of Vanderbilt University, USA.

Grants and Supports

• December 2020--December 2023. First investigator (i.e.~lead investigator) for ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery Project DP200100067: Physical realisation of enriched quantum symmetries joint with Pinhas Grossman, Scott Morrison and James Tener. Total funding: AUD 340,000.

• July 2018--Nov. 2021. University of New South Wales Sydney Starting Grant.

Short stay supports and summer supports

• June--July 2016 (5 weeks). Short stay support sponsored by the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics.

• July--August 2016. NSF summer support sponsored by Vaughan Jones.

• July--August 2015. NSF summer support sponsored by Vaughan Jones.

• July--August 2010 (5 weeks). Short stay support sponsored by the Mathematical Foundation of France for the ICM 2010 in Hyderabad in India.

• March--June 2009 (3 months). Short stay support sponsored by the Mathematical Foundation of Paris for visiting UC Berkeley.

Support for organising conferences and workshops

• July 2021. MATRIX Workshop funding for ``Cartan subalgebras of C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras'' (cancelled due to Covid).

• February 2019. AMSI Scientific Workshop Funding 2019 for the conference ``Subfactors in Sydney'' hosted by UNSW Sydney.

• July 2017. Financial support from the American NSF for the conference ``Quantum Symmetries: Subfactors and Planar Algebras'' in Maui, Hawaii, USA.

• July 2014. Financial support from the American NSF for the conference ``Subfactor theory in mathematics and physics'' in Maui, Hawaii, USA.

Student scholarships

• September 2008 -- August 2011. Full grant scholarship, Ph.D. program fellowship of Region Iles de France.

• September 2004 -- August 2008. Full grant scholarship as a student of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France

Services

• 2021--Present. Assessor for the Australian Research Council.

• April 2020--Present. Co-editor of the magazine Parabola published by the School of Mathematics and Statistics of UNSW (first as a Problem Editor until March 2022 and then as Assistant Chief Editor).

• March 2020--Dec. 2021 and Feb. 2023--Present. Organiser of the Pure Math Seminar at UNSW.

• March 2020--Dec. 2021. Co-organiser of the Joint Colloquium of Mathematics of University of Sydney and UNSW.

• January 2020--Present. Member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics.

• July 2018--Feb. 2022. Member of the Publicity committee at UNSW.

• Reviewer for scientific journals, e.g. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Communication in Mathematical Physics, Journal of Combinatorial Algebra , Proceeding of Mathematical Sciences, Physical Review Letters, Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Bulletin des sciences mathematiques, Quantum, Annales Scientifiques de l'Ecole Normale superieure, Physical Review Letters, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Documenta Mathematica International Journal of Mathematics.

• Wrote reviews for MathSciNet.

Language skills

• French (native speaker)

• English (fluent)

• Italian (intermediate)

• German (basic knowledge)

Other interests

• Kitesurfing, snowboarding

• Antiquity, archeology