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employment:

• September 2020 to present: first Ricercatore Senior, then Associate Professor, Università di Trento 🇮🇹

• August 2016 to August 2020: Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Loughborough 🇬🇧

• November 2103 to July 2016: post-doctoral fellow, KU Leuven - FWO 🇧🇪 

• November 2012 to October 2013: post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw 🇵🇱

• October 2010 to October 2012: post-doctoral fellow, Centre of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo 🇳🇴

education:

• 2010: PhD in Mathematics, University Roma Tre, Advisor Prof. Ciro Ciliberto (University of Tor Vergata) 🇮🇹

• 2006: Master degree in Mathematics (Laurea Magistrale), 110/110 summa cum laude, University of Trento, Advisor Prof. Roberto Pignatelli 🇮🇹

PhD students:

• Dario Antolini (University of Trento, main supervisor Alessandro Oneto) 2024- present

• (former) Tim Grange (Loughborough University, co-supervisor Arie Prendergast-Smith) 2017-2021. Thesis title  "Birational geometry and positivity of blow-ups of products of projective spaces". Last position held: postdoc at Nottingham University (UK)

• (former) Luis Santana-Sanchez (Loughborough University) 2017-2021. Thesis title "On blow-ups of projective spaces at points on a rational normal curve". Current position: postdoc at Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)

postdocs:

• Pablo González Mázon (University of Trento, March 2024 - present)

• (former) Alex Casarotti (University of Trento, 2021-2023)

• (former) Liana Heuberger (Loughborough University, 2018-2020)

major grants:

• (present) 2023-25: (co-I) PRIN 2022 project "Birational geometry of moduli spaces and special varieties" PI: A. Massarenti, Italy, ~€215k

• (past) 2018-21: (PI) EPSRC new investigator award, grant ref. EP/S004130/1, United Kingdom, ~£200k

• (past) 2013-16: (PI) FWO postdoctoral fellowship, Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium, ~€250k