Short Curriculum Vitae
(An extended version of my CV can be found here).
Education and career
1964. Born in Milan, Italy.
1988. Master degree cum laude in Electronical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
1993. PhD in Mathematics at Università di Milano (PhD thesis supervisor: Prof. Brunello Terreni; co-advisor: Prof. Giuseppe Da Prato).
1990-1998. Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) of Mathematical Analysis at Politecnico di Milano.
1998-2002. Associate Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at Politecnico di Milano.
2002-2016. Full Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at Politecnico di Milano.
2016-nowadays. Full Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at Università degli studi di Milano.
Visiting positions
Polish Academy of Sciences in Warszawa, 1994.
Universität Bielefeld, 1995.
Professeur invité at Université de Rennes 1 in 2004, 2005, 2011.
Professeur invité at Université Paris Diderot in 2013.
Invited professor ("Chercheur étranger de haut niveau'') at Université du Maine, Le Mans (2015).
Professeur invité at Université Paris Cité in 2024.
Research interests
I started my research activity in spectral theory of operators, semigroups of linear operators and applications to evolution equations. I have then addressed several issues in stochastic analysis and stochastic evolution equations, including well-posedness, regularity, filtering, Malliavin calculus, Markov
transition semigroups, applications to stochastic partial differential equations.
Recently I am carrying out research in stochastic optimal control and backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs), studying applications to controlled stochastic partial differential equations, partial differential equations on abstract spaces, stochastic systems described by multivariate point processes, optimal control with partial observation.
Main academic activities
Member of the editorial board of the journals Applied Mathematics and Optimization (since 2017) and Stochastic Processes and their Applications (since 2019).
Chairman of the Faculty of the PhD programme ("Coordinatore del Dottorato") in Mathematical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2001-2006. Member of the PhD Faculty till nowadays.
Deputy Head ("Vicepreside") of the School of Systems Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2011-2012.
Chairman of the Faculty of the Bachelor and Master programme ("Presidente del Consiglio di Corso di Studio") in Mathematical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, January-July 2016.
Head of the Department of Mathematics (``Direttore del Dipartimento di Matematica") , Università di Milano, 2020-2023.
Deputy Head of the Department of Mathematics (``Vicedirettore del Dipartimento di Matematica") , Università di Milano, 2024-nowadays.
Direction of financed research projects
Principal investigator of the national MIUR-PRIN 2010-2011 project "Evolution differential problems: deterministic and stochastic approaches and their interactions" (involving five local units at the Universities of Lecce, Parma, Pisa, Trento and the Politecnico di Milano).
Director of a local unit of MIUR-PRIN projects in 2015, 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002.
Principal investigator of a research project INDAM-GNAMPA in 2005.
Teaching and supervising activity
I have been the PhD thesis supervisor of Federica Masiero (2004), Fulvia Confortola (2005), Anton Ibragimov (2010), Andrea Cosso (2014), Carlo Orrieri (2015), Elena Bandini (2016), Alessandro Calvia (2018), Nahuel Foresta (2018), Mattia Martini (2023).
I have been the scientific supervisor of the post-doc students Giuseppina Guatteri (2002), Federica Masiero (2004), Fulvia Confortola (2005), Elisa Mastrogiacomo (2011), Petr Veverka (2015).