Academic activities

Mentoring

Postdocs:

• 2025-2027: Aria Halavati, supported with ERC StG ANGEVA, at Bocconi University.

• 2025-2027: Ling Wang, supported with ERC StG ANGEVA, at Bocconi University.

• 2024-2026: Daniele De Gennaro, supported with ERC StG ANGEVA, at Bocconi University.

• 2021: Giulia Bevilacqua, supported by Ermenegildo Zegna Founder’s Scholarship, at University of Maryland.

PhD students:

• 2016-2019: Co-mentor of the PhD student Stefano Gioffré at University of Zurich (main advisor C. De Lellis). 

Master students:

• 2024-2025: Dario Filatrella, at Bocconi University.

• 2024-2025: Edoardo Palombi, at Bocconi University.

• 2016-2017: Co-mentor of the master student Simone Steinbrüchel at University of Zurich (main advisor C. De Lellis).

Undergraduate students (selected):

• 2023: REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) at University of Maryland - 8 weeks (June 12th to August 4th):
  Geometric measure theory in optimal transport, geometric flows, and minimal surfaces.
  Mentored students: Leo Chang, Stanley Jian, Aren Martinian, Adam Moubarak.

• 2017-2018: Dominic Louis Wynter, at Courant Institute, NYU. Awarded the Hollis Cooley Memorial Prize for his thesis.

Research internship students:

• Bocconi University: Dario Filatrella (2024), Edoardo Palombi (2024-2025), Florens Schlosser (2025), Giacomo Gianoglio (2025), Luca Alberto Polverino (2025), Weijia Luo (2025), Can Tutuncu (2025).

• University of Maryland: Nicholas Baranello (2021)

• Courant Institute, NYU: Jeffrey Kober (2017-2018)

Committee Member

1. 2023-2025, Bocconi University. Multiple Postdoc Hiring Committees.

2. 2025, Lehigh University.  PhD dissertation committee for Huanwen Shen (July 16th).

3. 2024, Lehigh University.  PhD thesis proposal committee for Huanwen Shen (April 19th).

4. 2023-2025, Bocconi University. Committee of the MSc ''Data Science and Business Analytics'' (DSBA).

5. 2023, University of Maryland. PhD Dissertation Examining Committee for Lucas Christopher Bouck (March 29th) and for Xiaoyu Zhou (August 17th).

6. 2023, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.  PhD Dissertation Committee for Reinaldo Resende (July 21st).

7. 2022-2024, University of Maryland. AMSC Graduate Faculty Committee.

8. 2022-2023, University of Maryland. AMSC PhD Admission Committee.

9. 2022-2023, University of Maryland. Policy Committee.

10. 2021, University of Maryland. Committee for the PhD Preliminary Oral Exam of Lucas Christopher Bouck (May 7th, 2021), Vlasios Mastrantonis (December 7th, 2021) and Michael Rozowski (March 8th, 2023).

11. 2020, Paris-Sud University, France. Jury for the PhD defense of Camille Labourie (January 6th) .

12. 2020-2021, University of Maryland. Policy Committee.

13. 2020-2021, University of Maryland. MATH PhD Admission Committee.

Conference organizer

1. International geometric analysis conference in Milan II. June 8-12, 2026. Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.  Co-organized with A. Pigati. 

2. International geometric analysis conference in Milan. June 23-27, 2025. Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.  Co-organized with A. Pigati.

3. Geometric Analysis & PDEs Christmas Workshop. December 18, 2024. Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.  Co-organized with A. Pigati.

4. Geometric Measure Theory and applications. June 17-21, 2024. Palazzone SNS, Cortona, Italy.  Co-organized with G. Caldini, L. De Masi, A. Marchese and A. Massaccesi. 

5. Recent Developments in Geometric Measure Theory. January 4-7, 2023. Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023, Boston, USA. Co-organized with C. De Lellis and L. Spolaor. 

6. Special session on elliptic PDEs and geometric variational problems.  June 5-9, 2020. 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Atlanta, USA. Co-organized with H. Yu. Cancelled due to COVID-19. 

7. New Trends in Geometric Measure Theory. March 22-24, 2019. Spring AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA. Co-organized with L. Spolaor. 

8. Transport problems in Zurich. April 24-26, 2017. University of Zurich, Switzerland. Co-organized with M. Colombo, A. Marchese and A. Massaccesi. 

Seminar organizer

• Since 2020, PDE-Applied Math Seminar. University of Maryland. 

• Since 2020, Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar. University of Maryland. 

• 2020-2021, RIT on Applied PDE. University of Maryland.

• 2018-2020. Geometry and geometric analysis working group. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU. Co-organized with R. Young.

Peer review panel member

• 2023:   National Science Foundation (NSF) 2023.

Referee for the journals

Invent. Math., Comm. Pure App. Math., Duke Math. J., JEMS, ARMA, Ars Inveniendi Analytica, Forum Math. Pi, Ann. Sci. de l'Ecole Norm. Superieure, J. Funct. Anal., Adv. Math., J. Reine Angew. Math., Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, Quart. Appl. Math., Anal. PDE, AMS-PCMI lecture notes, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., Pure Appl. Anal., ESAIM: COCV, Ann. Mat. Pur. Appl., J. Geom. Anal., Adv. Calc. Var, Netw. Heterog. Media, J Differ Equ., Vietnam J. Math., Manuscripta Math., Indiana Univ. Math. J., J. London Math. Soc., Math. Eng., Math. Oper. Res., Math. Ann., Proc. R. Soc. Edinb. A., JMPA, J. Convex Anal., Comput. Optim. Appl., Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., IMRN