Curriculum Vitae

Current Positions

Since October 2022, I am tenure-track assistant professor (Ricercatore a tempo determinato lett. b)) in Mathematical Analysis at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information "Maurizio Scarano".

 Past academic Positions

• June 2020- October 2022. Non-tenure track assistant professor (ricercatore a tempo determinato lett. a)) in Mathematical Analysis,  Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics of the University of L'Aquila. 

• January 2017-May 2020. Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Statistics and Operations Research University of Vienna and Scientific Coordinator of the Vienna Graduate School on Computational Optimization .

• September 2015-December 2016. Researcher (Post-Doc) at the Research Unit Operations Research and Control Systems in the Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, TU Wien, scientific supervisor: Prof. Vladimir Veliov). 

•  2015, demi-ATER (Non-tenure-track teaching position) at University Pierre et  Marie Curie, Paris (IMJ: Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu)

•  Early-stage Marie Curie researcher fellow within the project FP7-People-2010-ITN Sensitivity Analysis for Deterministic Controller Design (October 2013-December 2014). http://itn-sadco.inria.fr

Education

• Ph.D. cum Laude in Mathematics taken on November 30, 2015. Institution: Department of Mathematics of University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) and IMJ-PRG, Paris 6 (France). Dissertation: “Sensitivity Analysis and Regularity of Solutions of a class of HJB equations arising in optimal control”. Supervisors: Prof. Piermarco Cannarsa and DR Hélène Frankowska.

• July 2012. Master cum Laude in Mathematics, University of L’Aquila (Italy). Title of the thesis " Faddeev equations for three-body sistems in quantum mechanics", advisor Prof. Alessandro Teta (final degree: 110/110 cum Laude).

• March 2010. Bachelor cum Laude in Mathematics, University of L’Aquila (Italy). Title of the thesis "Infinite-horizon optimal control problems: Hamilton-Jacobi-Belmann equations and Dynamic Programming", advisor Prof. Cristina Pignotti (final degree: 110/110 cum Laude).

Teaching experience 

• 2020, Winter Semester, Analisi Matematica 1 per Ingegneria Civile, Edile-Architettura, Universita' dell'Aquila (Esercitazioni, corso Prof. Amadori)

• 2018 and 2019, Summer Semester, Mathematik 2 - Optimierung in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Übung / Exercises), Bachelor Business Administration, University of Vienna.

• 2017 and 2018, Winter Semester, Mathematik 1 (Übung / Exercises), Bachelor Business Administration, University of Vienna.

• 2015, Summer Semester, Suites et intégrales, Algebre linéaire (TDes / Exercises), Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (France).

• 2015, Summer Semester, Analyse vectorielle et intégrales multiples (TDes / Exercises), second year of the Parcours des Ecoles d’Ingénieurs de Polytech at Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (France) .

• 2013 tutor for the course "Fisica Matematica 2": third year of the first level degree in Mathematics, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” (Italy).

• 2013 tutor for the course "Analisi Matematica 4": second year of the first level degree in Mathematics and exam committee member, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” (Italy).

Conference talks / seminars (recent)

• I³, Italian Inverse problems & Imaging meeting, University of Genoa (Italy), January 19-21, 2026.

• Talk, Mini-symposium by R. Bot, A. Daniilidis and Y. Malitskyi, Viennese conference on Optimal Control and dynamical Games, 15-18 July 2025, Vienna (Austria)

• Speaker, Optimal Control and Inverse Problems in PDE Theory with Applications, RISM, Varese, 9-13 June 2025, (Italy) 

•  Speaker, Control of State Constrained Dynamical Systems 2024, September 24-27, 2024, Università di Padova (Italy)

• Talk, Mini-symposium by V. Lykina and S. Pickenhain, FGS Conference on Optimization 2024, 18-21 June 2024, Gijon (Spain)  

• Speaker at Shape Optimization, Geometric Inequalities and Related Topics, 25-29 May 2024, Lecce (Italy)

• Co-organizer of a mini-symposium, International Conference on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems, 20-24 May 2024, Gaeta (Italy)

• Talk, Mini-symposium by P. Lissy and I. Mazari, ICIAM 2023 Tokyo, 20-25 Aug. 2023, Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan)

• Speaker at "Two-day workshop on deterministic and stochastic control” , September 6-7, 2022, Politecnico di Milano, Milan (Italy) 

• Speaker at School-Workshop ACIPDif22, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Bari Aldo Moro, July 18-22, 2022, Bari (Italy)

• Contributed talk, Siam Annual Meeting 2022, July 11- 15, 2022, Pittsburgh (US)

• Speaker at Workshop on "Optimal Control Theory", June 22-24, 2022, INSA Rouen Normandie (France)

• Talk, Mini-symposium by V. Lykina and S. Pickenhain, FGP Conference on Optimization, May 3-6, 2022, FEP Porto (Portugal)

Languages

My mother tounge is Italian. I can fluently speak English and French, and I have an intermediate level of German.

Others

• National Scientific qualification as associate professor in the Italian higher education system, in the call 2021/2023 (Ministerial Decree n. 553/2021 and 589/2021) for the disciplinary field of 01/A3 - Mathematical analysis, probability and statistics. Validity: 31/01/2022-31/01/2031

• PhD thesis examiner: Xuemei Liu (supervisors: R. Burachik, Y. Kaya, University of South Austalia, 2022), B. Caldwell (supervisors: R. Burachik, W. Moursi, Y. Kaya), University of South Austalia, 2024). PhD thesis jury member: Liangying Chen (supervisor: E. Trelat, Sorbonne University, 2024)

• Reviewer for American Mathematical Society 

• Reviewer for scientific journals (ESAIM-COCV, IEEE, Optimization, SIMA, JDCS, etc.)

• Collaboration for Penne amiche della scienza  since 2023 (public engagement).

• My mother tongue is Italian. I can speak fluently French and English, and I have a good knowledge of German (B1).

Publications and papers

1. P. Cannarsa, H. Frankowska, T. Scarinci, Sensitivity relations for the Mayer problem with differential inclusions. ESAIM Control Optim. Calc. Var.  2015, Vol 21, No. 3, 789 -- 814.

2. P. Cannarsa, H. Frankowska, T. Scarinci, Second-order sensitivity relations and regularity of value function for the Mayer problem in optimal control. SIAM J. Control Optim., 2015, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 3642- 3672.  PDF

3. P. Cannarsa, T. Scarinci, Conjugate times and regularity of the minimum time function with differential inclusions. Springer INdAM Ser., Vol. 11 (2015).  PDF

4. A. Pietrus, T. Scarinci, V. Veliov, High Order Discrete Approximations to Mayer's Problems for Linear Systems. SIAM J. Control Optim. 56 (2018), no. 1, 102-119. PDF 

5. T. Scarinci, V. Veliov. Higher-order numerical scheme for linear-quadratic problems with bang-bang controls. Comput. Opt. Appl. DOI 10.1007/s10589-017-9948-z (2017) PDF

6. P. Albano, P. Cannarsa, T. Scarinci. Regularity Results for the Minimum Time Function with Hörmander Vector Fields. Journal of Differential Equations, 264 (2018), no. 5, pp. 3312-3335.  PDF

7. P. Albano, P. Cannarsa, T. Scarinci. Partial regularity for solutions to subelliptic eikonal equations. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris. Ser. I (2018). In press.  PDF

8. Preininger, J., Scarinci, T. & Veliov, V.M. Metric Regularity Properties in Bang-Bang Type Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems. Set-Valued Var. Anal (2019) 27: 381. PDF

9. M. Quincampoix, T.Scarinci, V. Veliov. On the metric regularity of affine optimal control problems, Journal of Convex Analysis 27 (2020), No. 2, 509--533

10. C. Geiersbach, T. Scarinci. Stochastic Proximal Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Problems in Hilbert Spaces, Computational Optimization and Applications, 2021, 78(3), pp. 705–740 

11. C. Geiersbach, T. Scarinci. A stochastic gradient method for a class of nonlinear PDE-constrained optimal control problems under uncertainty, Journal of Differential Equations, 2023, 364, pp. 635–666

Book Chapters

1. Book chapter: Optimality conditions (in Pontryagin form). Authors: M.S. Aronna, D. Tonon, A. Boccia, C.M. Campos, M. Mazzola, L.V. Nguyen, M. Palladino, T. Scarinci, F. Silva. In: Optimal Control: Novel Directions and Applications, Lectures Notes in Mathematics Series (2017).

Proceedings

1. P. Cannarsa, H. Frankowska, T. Scarinci. Sensitivity relations for the Mayer problem of optimal control, Proceedings of 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 15-17, 2014.

2. J. Preininger, T. Scarinci, V. Veliov. Metric regularity properties in bang-bang type linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Springer Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) as Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations (LSSC'17) Sozopol, Bulgaria.