I am Senior Researcher in mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University (Lithuania), within the Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies
Work address: VU DMSTI, Akademijos g. 4, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania.
E-mail: daniele.otera(AT)mif.vu.lt and daniele.otera(AT)gmail.com
Short Vitae: (Full CV: CV-en - CV-it)
Born in 1976 in Palermo, Italy.
1999: Mathematics Degree (Laurea), Università di Palermo, Italy.
2001: Master's Degree (D.E.A. - Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) in Mathematics, Université Paris-Sud 11, France.
2006: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Università di Palermo, Italy, and Universtité de Paris-Sud 11, France. Co-tutored PhD Thesis.
2006-2007: Visiting Research Fellow (7 months), Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble, France.
2007-2008: Post-doctoral Fellow (SNF), Institut de Mathématique, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
2009-2011: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow ("Marie Curie" Intra European Fellowship), Laboratoire de Mathématique, Université Paris-Sud 11, France.
2013-2014: Researcher (Mokslo darbuotojas), Vilniaus Universiteto Matematikos ir Informatikos Institutas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University), Vilnius, Lithuania.
2014-2019: Senior Researcher (Vyresnysis mokslo darbuotojas), Vilniaus Universiteto Matematikos ir Informatikos Institutas, Vilnius, Lithuania.
From 2019: Senior Researcher (Vyresnysis mokslo darbuotojas), Vilniaus Universiteto Duomenų mokslo ir skaitmeninių technologijų institutas (Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies of Vilnius University), Vilnius, Lithuania.
Research Fields
Geometric Group Theory: discrete groups, quasi-isometries, geometric properties of groups, asymptotic topology of groups and manifolds, ends, lattices in Lie groups, topological groups.
Low-dimensional Topology and Geometric Topology: topological tameness conditions, simple connectivity at infinity, geometric simple connectivity, quasi-simple filtration, Tucker property, proper homotopy invariants, (Poenaru's) inverse-representations, singularities.
Group Theory: finite groups, locally-compact groups, probability in group theory, commutativity degree, subgroup commutativity degree.
Useful links
MathSciNet - Zentralblatt - Recent articles in Geometric Topology - SCOPUS -
Mat-Unipa - Math-Orsay - DMSTI-VU - Math-VU - LMT -
People: Gérard Besson - Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein - Gabriele Fici - Louis Funar - Frédéric Haglund - Pierre Pansu - Valentin Poénaru - Francesco G. Russo - Maxime Wolff -
The world of Groups - Conferences in GGT - other Conferences -