My research focuses on manifolds with special holonomy (hyperkähler, Calabi-Yau, G2 and Spin7 manifolds). Most of my work uses analytic techniques to address open questions in geometry, often with direct connections with theoretical physics.
I am an Associate Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma. From Fall 2019 to Summer 2023 I was based at University College London and from Fall 2017 to Summer 2019 at Heriot-Watt University and the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. I have been a James H. Simons Instructor (postdoc) at Stony Brook University from Fall 2013 to Summer 2017. I have spent the Fall semester 2015 at the Riemann Centre for Geometry and Physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover supported by a Riemann Fellowship and the Spring semester 2016 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Differential Geometry. I obtained my PhD at Imperial College London in 2013.
The information on this webpage is also available on my CV.
Fondo Italiano per la Scienza 2022-2023 (FIS2) Consolidator, Nov 2025 - Oct 2028
Royal Society University Research Fellowship Renewal, Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
EPSRC New Horizons Grant, Jul 2021 - Jun 2023
Royal Society University Research Fellowship, Oct 2017 - Sep 2022
Royal Society Research Grant for Research Fellows, Apr 2018 - Mar 2022
Royal Society Enhancement Award 2017, Dec 2017 - Mar 2022
NSF grant DMS-1608143, Jun 2016 - Aug 2020
Postdocs: Federico Trinca (2023-2024), Calum Ross (2021-2023)
PhD students: Filippo Sotgiu, Nicolò Cavalleri, Enric Solé-Farré (co-supervised with S. Donaldson, graduating in 2025 and starting a postdoc at BIMSA in Fall 2025), Alessio Di Lorenzo (graduated in 2023), Andries Salm (graduated in 2023, currently a postdoc at ULB, Bruxelles), Jakob Stein (graduated in 2022, currently a BRIDGES postdoc in Campinas)
Past visiting students: Giovanni Russo (QGM, Aarhus University), Marlon de Oliveira Gomes (from Stony Brook), Matthew Lam (Stony Brook)
Past project students: Aleksandra Bozovic, Enric Solé-Farre, Nicolò Cavalleri, Alessio Di Lorenzo, Briony Eldridge, Philipp Breen-Ulbrich, Harvey Tollick, Matthew Hyde, Albert Solà Vilalta, Michael Tang, Dave Torkington, Finlay Dupree Mcintyre