Born November 29 1958, Melbourne, Australia
Permanent positions
1982: Laurea in Matematica, Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, advisor Enrico Arbarello
1986: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Brown University, advisor Joe Harris
1986 - 1991: Ritt Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics - Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
1987 - 1989: Ricercatore, Dipartimento di Matematica - Università degli studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italy
1994 - 1997: Professore straordinario, DIIMA - Università degli studi di Salerno, Salerno, Italy
1997 - present: Professore ordinario, Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo - Università degli studi di Roma “Sapienza”, Roma, Italy
Visiting positions
1991 - 1992: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
1992 - 1993: School of Mathematics - IAS, Princeton, NJ, USA
1993 - 1994: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1995: Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France
2004: Post rouge, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, FRANCE
2014, Fall: School of Mathematics - IAS, Princeton, NJ, USA
2018, February: Conferenciér Invité, Collège de France, Paris
2018, March: Conferenciér Invité, ENS, Paris
2018, April: Professeur Invité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris
Main conferences
1995: Invited speaker, AMS Summer Institute in Algebraic Geometry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
2004: Invited speaker, ECM04, Stockholm, Sweden
2005: Invited speaker, AMS Summer Institute in Algebraic Geometry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
2015: Invited speaker, AMS Summer Institute in Algebraic Geometry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2025: Invited speaker, Summer Research Institute in Algebraic Geometry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Academic distintions
1991: A.P. Sloan research Fellowship
2004: Medaglia dell’Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (detta dei XL)
2012: Socio corrispondente, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei