Personal
Name: Luca Asselle
Date and place of birth: August 29, 1988 in Imperia (Italy)
Citizenship: Italian
Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English (fluent), German (fluent).
Employement
08/2021 - present Junior professor for Geometry at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
02/2018 - 07/2021 Post-doc fellow at the Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany.
10/2015 - 02/2018 Post-doc fellow at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
Education
November 2015 Ph.D. degree in Mathematics (Final grade: Summa cum Laude)
10/2012 - 9/2015 Ph.D. student at the faculty of Mathematics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
10/2010 - 7/2012 Master student in Mathematics at Università di Pisa, Italy.
10/2007 - 7/2010 Bachelor student in Mathematics at Università di Pisa, Italy.
Scholarships and Grants
01/2025 - 12/2028 Member of the CRC/TRR 191 "Symplectic Structures in Geometry, Algebra and Dynamics" (PI of Project A9 "Symplectic Dynamics, Celestial Mechanics, and Magnetism")
10/2024 - 09/2027 DFG grant "Morse theoretical methods in Analysis, Dynamics and Geometry"
10/2017 - 09/2020 DFG grant "Morse theoretical methods in Hamiltonian dynamics"
01/2016 - 12/2017 DAAD and MNiSZW fund "Morse theoretical methods in Hamiltonian dynamics" Ruhr Universität Bochum-Politechnika Gdanska.
In collaboration with Gabriele Benedetti (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), I am currently applying for a joint research project entitled "Classical, Quantum, and Stochastical aspects of Periodic Magnetic Flows" within the cross-european initiative "Weave". I am also preparing with Stefano Baranzini (Università degli Studi di Torino) an application for a "Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship" for him to join my research group starting from October 2025.
Supervision
I am currently supervising two PhD students:
10/2021 - present Giorgia Testolina - Stability properties and bifurcations of central and balanced configurations in the Newtonian n-body problem
10/2024 - present Paul Anton Wilke - Perturbed Alpha-Dirac-harmonic maps via Morse homology
I am also supervising two Master of Science students.
Organization
Since 2021 I am a co-organizer of the Oberseminar "Dynamical Systems" and of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft "Symplectic Geometry, Differential Geometry, and Dynamics".
I have co-organized the conferences "Symplectic Dynamics in Aachen" (September 2024) and "Implicit Function Theorems in Analysis, Geometry and Dynamics" (February 2020).
In the previous semesters I organized several reading courses and seminars for advanced master students and PhD students, such as the "Seminar on generating functions", the "Seminar on Spin Geometry and Applications", and the "Reading course on Floer homology".
Teaching Experiences
During the winter term 2024 I will teach a course on Partial Differential Equations.
In the past semesters I taught a variety of courses from intermediate to advanced level: Partial Differential Equations, Functional Analysis, Variational methods for Differential Equations, Differential Geometry 2, Dynamical Systems, Mathematics for Physicists 1, Analysis on Manifolds, Contact Geometry, Differential Forms and Manifolds.
From 2012 to 2021 I have been teaching assistant for the courses: Analysis I-IV, Mathematics for Physicists I-IV, Curves and Surfaces, Functional Analysis.