PhD in Mathematics, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, 1998.
MSc in Mathematics, University of Pisa, 1993.
updated December 2023
Fall 2025 - Simons Research Professor, SLMath, Berkeley
2019-2021 and 2022-2025 - APT Associate Chair
Fall 2015 - Eisenbud Research Professor, MSRI, Berkeley.
2012-present - Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland.
2008-2012 - Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland.
2001-2008 - Professore Associato, University of Florence.
1995-2001 - Ricercatore, University of Florence.
Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Southern California, Fall 1997.
Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications, University of Paris 13, Spring 1999.
Centre de Recherche de Mathématiques de la Décision (Ceremade), University of Paris 9, Spring 1999.
Department of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, Spring 1999, 2000, 2001, Fall 2001, 2004.
Fakultät für Mathematik, University of Bielefeld, Spring 2000.
Mathematics Research Centre, University of Warwick, Summer 2001.
Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm Sweden, Fall 2007.
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge UK, Summer 2010.
Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Summer 2012.
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, Fall 2015.
Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, Fall 2018.
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, Fall 2021.
Visiting Professor, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Summer 2024.
Simons-Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Berkeley, Fall 2025.
NSF Research Grant DMS-2348096 (2024-2027), Multiscale Analysis of Infinite-Dimensional Stochastic Systems.
Simons Fellow 2021.
NSF Research Grant DMS-1954299 (2020-2024), Multiscale Analysis of Infinite-Dimensional Stochastic Systems.
NSF Research Grant DMS-1712934 (2017-2022), Analysis of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations with Multiple Scales.
NSF Grant DMS-024619, Seminar on Stochastic Processes, 2016.
Eisenbud Research Professor, MSRI, Fall 2015.
NSF Research Grant DMS-1407615 (2014-2019), Asymptotic Problems for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations.
UMD Advance Program Interdisciplinary and Engaged Research Seed Grant (2013), Dynamic models for transportation systems: Properties and theoretical foundations.
Italian national habilitation to Full Professor in Probability, 2010.
NSF Research Grant DMS-0907295 (2009-2013), Asymptotic Problems for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations.
European TMR Network Grant Viscosity solutions and applications, Paris, Spring 1999.
Perfezionamento fellowship at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, 1993-1995.
Associate Editor of NoDEA - Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications, March 2025-present.
Associate Editor of Stochastic and Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations, May 2024-present
Associate Editor of Probability Theory and Related Fields, January 2021- present.
Associate Editor of Nonlinearity, September 2020-present.
Associate Editor of Potential Analysis, December 2011-present.
Associate Editor of Journal of Evolution Equations, September 2018-present.
Associate Editor of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A, December 2014-2021.
Area Editor of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, 2018-2021
Associate Editor of Annals of Probability, 2015-2020.
Associate Editor of Stochastics, February 2015-2018, currently a member of the Honorary Editorial Board.
Associate Editor of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, January 2013-2018.
Associate Editor of Journal of Theoretical Probability, August 2009-2020.
Special Semester on Singular Stochastic PDEs & Field Theories, MSRI, Berkeley 2026 (co-organizer).
Summer School on PDEs and Randomness, Brin MRC, August 5-9, 2024 (co-organizer).
Workshop on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, February 12-16, 2024 (co-organizer).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Frontiers of Stochastic Analysis Conference, Chicago August 9-11, 2023.
Workshop on Stochastic PDEs and Related Topics, Brin MRC, November 14-16, 2022 (co-organizer).
Asymptotic Problems in Probability and PDE: a Conference in Honor of Mark Freidlin, Brin MRC, October 17-21, 2022 (co-organizer).
Special Session on Large Deviations at the 42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Wuhan, June 27-July 2, 2022 (invited organizer).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2022 PIMS-CRM Summer School in Probability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: A celebration of Marta Sanz-Solé’s Mathematical Legacy, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Barcelona, May 30- June 3, 2022 (co-organizer).
Workshop on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, March 7-11, 2022 (co-organizer).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Conference on Statistical Mechanics (ANR Grant NonStops), CIRM 2021.
Conference on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations - XI, Levico Terme, Italy, May 31-June 5, 2020 (canceled because of Covid) (co-organizer).
Summer school Recent Developments in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, in honor of Giuseppe Da Prato, Riemann International School of Mathematics (RISM), Villa Toepliz, Varese, July 23-28 2018 (co-organizer).
Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2016, University of Maryland, College Park, March 15-18 2016 (co-organizer).
Special session Stochastic Analysis and SPDEs at the Spring Northeastern Section AMS Meeting, March 7-8, 2015 (invited organizer).
Special Session Asymptotic Problems for Stochastic Processes and PDEs at the Spring Northeastern Section AMS Meeting, March 7-8, 2015 (invited organizer).
Special Session Many Facets of Probability at the 2015 AWM Research Symposium, University of Maryland April 11-12, 2015 (invited organizer).
Special Session SPDEs: Analysis and Computations at the XXXVII International Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Buenos Aires, June 28th-August 1st 2013), sponsored by the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Asymptotic Problems in Stochastic Processes and PDEs, College Park, MD, May 20-24, 2013 (co-organizer).
Theory and Applications of Stochastic PDEs, January 14-18, 2013, in the Infinite Dimensional and Stochastic Dynamical Systems and their Applications program at IMA, September 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013, (co-organizer).
Special Session Large deviations for SPDEs at the XXXV International Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Mexico, June 2011), sponsored by the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (invited organizer).
Workshop on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Centro de Giorgi, Pisa April 3-7, 2006 (co-organizer).
Panelist and referee for the National Science Foundation, the Simons Foundation, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, the Mathematical Sciences Program of the National Security Agency, and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Member of hiring committees for the University of Trento, the University of Milano Bicocca, the University of Pisa, and the Politecnico of Milan.
Member of the scientific committee of the Seminar on Stochastic Processes, 2014- present
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of MSRI (Berkeley), June 2018-2022.
Current PhD Students
Wen-Tai Hsu, PhD student in the Mathematics Program, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland.
Past Postdoctoral Advisee
Guangyu Xi, University of Maryland, 2020-2022. Currently, Quantitative Researcher at Akuna Capital.
Past PhD students
Mengzi Xie, University of Maryland, 2025, Currently, Postdoc at TU Berlin.
Yichun Zhu, University of Maryland, 2023. Currently, Postdoc at the Chinese Academy of Science.
Nicholas Paskal, University of Maryland, 2021. Currently Quantitative Analyst at Wells Fargo.
Scott Smith, University of Maryland, 2016. Currently, Associate Professor at AMSS, Chinese Academy of Science.
Michael Salins, University of Maryland, 2015. Currently, Associate Professor at Boston University.
Jong Jun Lee, University of Maryland, 2014. Currently, Researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Past MA Students
Cyrus Teng, University of Maryland, 2018.
Matteo Del Vigna, University of Florence, 2008.
Marco Camagni, University of Florence, 2005.
Laura Donnini, University of Florence, 2004.
Giulia Carreras, University of Florence, 2003.