I have worked on smoothings of quotient cusp (surface) singularities and related topics. Currently I am studying some connected but new (to me!) topics at the interplay between algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.

• Tropical methods for stable Horikawa surfaces, JD Evans, A Simonetti, G Urzúa. Preprint,  arXiv:2405.02735, 2024

• Deformation types of Looijenga pairs of small length, Geometriae Dedicata, 2025 arXiv:2311.13026, 2023

• Z/2Z-Equivariant smoothings of cusp singularities, preprint, arXiv:2201.02871, 2022. 

• Equivariant smoothings of cusp singularities, Ph.D. thesis, 2021. Link.

• Post-Doc in Maths and AI, University of Chieti-Pescara "G. D'Annunzio". July 2024-present

• Senior Research Associate in Mathematics, University of Lancaster. September 2022-June 2024

• Research Associate in Mathematics, University of Cambridge. September 2021-August 2022

• Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015 - 2021.  Thesis title: Equivariant smoothings of cusp singularities. Advisor: Paul Hacking

• M.S. in Mathematics, University of Bologna, 2013-2015.  Advisor: Luca Migliorini. Grade: 110/110 Cum Laude.

• B.S. in Mathematics, University of Bologna, 2010-2013.  Advisor: Luca Migliorini. Grade: 110/110 Cum Laude.

• Topolodías en Santiago, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, January 9 2024.

• Pure Math Seminar, Lancaster University, January 25 2023.

• The Sheffield Geometry and Physics Seminar, Sheffield University, March 28 2022.

• Fanosearch Seminar, Imperial College (London), February 23 2022.

• Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Cambridge, November 17 2021.

• Freemath Semminar, online seminar, November 9 2021.

• Annual Congress Meeting 3CinG, University of Warwick, September 20-23 2021.

• Junior Algebraic geometry Warwick Seminar (JAWS), University of Warwick, January 2019

• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) January 28 - February 8, 2019

• Graduate Student Seminar (co-organizers Tetsuya Nakamura, Cristian Rodriguez, Arthur Wang). University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 - Fall 2019.

•  The What Is Graduate Seminar (co-organizer GaYee Park), University of Massachusetts, Fall 2020.

• Italian, native

• English, fluent

• French, basic