CURRENT POSITION
Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Denmark (since July 2023).
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Denmark 2016-23.
Co-principal investigator of the Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces (QGM), DNRF Center of Excellence, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2016-19.
Research Associate, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2014-16.
Postdoc, Département de Mathématiques et Applications, École Normale Superiéure ENS Paris, France, 2013-14
Postdoc, Institut des Haute Études Scientifique (IHES), Paris, France, 2013.
Postdoc, Institute Henrie Poincaré (IHP), Paris, France, 2012.
EDUCATION
PhD in Mathematics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Supervisor: Prof. Simon K. Donaldson, 2012.
Master in Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy, 2008.
Diploma in Piano, Conservatorio di Musica A. Boito, Parma, Italy, 2008.
CURRENT DEPARTMENTAL DUTIES
Member of Department Research Committee (advisory board), as Maths representant.
Member of PhD Program Committee.
QUALIFICATION
2022 Italian "Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale per Professore Ordinario (Full Professor) in Algebra e Geometria, 01/A2 Prima Fascia".
MAIN GRANTS
Villum YIP+ 2023-26. Geometry of Collapse (540.000 Euro).
Villum Young Investigator 2018-24. Complex Shapes (940.000 Euro).
AUFF Starting Grant 2016-20. (360.000 Euro).
RECENT INVITED SCIENTIFIC TALKS
More than 60 invited talks at international conferences and departmental seminars. Here some of the most relevant:
2025:
"Kähler Geometry: Past, Present and Future" BIRS Banff (Canada), September 2025
"Singular canonical Kähler metrics on compact and non-compact manifolds" Budapest (Hungary), September 2025;
"Polarized varieties and their applications" , June 30-July 11, 2025, University of Hawaii, Honolulu (USA).
"Complex Hermitian Geometry" (in honor of Prof P. Gauduchon '80s) Angers (France), May 2025.
2024:
"Moduli Spaces and Singularities", CRM Montreal (Canada),
"Differential Geometry Workshop in Lerici", LaSpezia (Italy),
"Geometry Seminar UBC Vancouver" (Canada),
"Seminar at IST Lisbon" (Portugal).
2023:
"K-stabilty and Birational geometry", University of Oxford, (UK).
"Gauge theory, canonical metrics and geometric structures", ICMAT Madrid (Spain),
Seminar at King's College London (UK),
"Geometry Seminar" Münster (Germany).
2022:
ICMS workshop on Birational Geometry and K-stability of Fano varieties, Edinburgh (UK);
Complex Geometry and Analysis XXVI, Levico (Italy),
Geometry Meeting in Paradiso, Cogne (Italy);
Seminar at Tokyo Tech (via Zoom).
2021
Seminar at IST Lisboa (via Zoom);
Geometry Seminar La Sapienza, Roma (via Zoom).
2020:
Workshop on explicit K-stability and moduli problems (via Zoom);
ZAG seminar (via Zoom).
2019:
Congress of Italian Mathematical Union, Pavia (Italy);
Differentialgeometrie im Grossen, Oberwolfach (Germany);
Moduli and Stability Conditions, Hannover (Germany).
2018:
24th Symposium on Complex Geometry, Kanazawa (Japan);
2nd Symposium in Geometry and Differential Equation, Shanghai Tech (China);
Constant scalar curvature metrics in Kähler and Sasaki Geometry, Luminy (France),
2017:
ULB Geometry Seminar (Belgium);
Seminar Geometria em Lisboa, (Portugual).
Copenaghen Topology Seminar (Denmark);
“Current Development and new directions in Kähler Geometry”, Notredame, (USA);
“Moduli of K-stable varieties”, La Sapienza Rome (Italy).
Some before 2017: ”Algebraic Geometry: Old and New” workshop during Clay Research Conference, University of Oxford (UK), 2016; Trends in Modern Geometry, University of Tokyo (Japan), 2016; ”Geometry and Analysis seminar, Oxford University” (UK), 2015; “Recent Advanced in Kähler geometry”, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, (USA) 2015; ”Algebraic Geometry Seminar” University of Cambridge (UK), 2014; Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique, (Jussieu-ENS), Paris (France) 2013; Extremal Kähler Metrics conference, CRM, Montreal (Canada), 2013.
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2026: Geometry of collapse, TBC
2024: “Aarhus Complex Geometry Workshop 2024”, Aarhus, Denmark (with S. Sun, Y. Odaka). Aarhus Geometry seminars.
2022: - “Kähler and non-Kähler geometry: new developments and interactions”, AIAS, Aarhus University, Denmark (with Z. Dyrefelt, A. Otiman);
-Co-organizer of “Aarhus-Göthenborg Complex geometry meetings”, alternating between the two cities, Denmark and Sweden.
2020-21: Co-organizer of ZAG (Zoom Algebraic Geometry Seminar).
2018:“Geometry Meeting in Paradiso”, Cogne Italy. (with D. Angella, L. Vezzoni, M. Zedda).
2017: “Special Hermitian metrics on complex manifolds”, Università di Firenze, Italy. (with D. Angella, S. Calamai)
2016: Co-organizer (with P. Gallardo, J. Martinez-Garcia) the Research in Group Program ”Moduli spaces of log del Pezzo pairs and K-stability” at HIM, Bonn, Germany (June-July 2016);
- Co-organizer (with H. Suess) of a mini-symposium at the 7th European Congress of Mathematics 7ECM 2016 Berlin on “Canonical metrics, K-stability and moduli spaces of Fano varieties”.
OTHERS
PhD Jury memeber: SISSA Trieste (Italy) 2024, SISSA Trieste (Italy) 2023, Chalmers (Sweeden) 2022, 2021, Tor Vergata (Italy) 2021.
Referee and quick opinions for many journals, including: Inventiones, Journal of AMS, Publications de l'IHES, Duke, Advances, Crelle, Mathematische Annalen, etc….
MathSciNet reviewer.
For a full CV, please e-mail me.