Italian qualification-Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (since June 2023) for Associate Professor.
Temporary assistant professor from December 2021 until December 2024, Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy)
Project: PRIN 2017 "The Time-Space Evolution of Economic Activities: Mathematical Models and Empirical Applications". Project supervisor: prof. Fausto Gozzi.
Topics: mean field games for the evolution of the human capital with spatial interactions between agents, optimal control and optimization with applications to the study of pandemic economics (COVID19, i.e. with lockdown of a sector of the economy) with the goal of describing how habits and demand change.
Project: Starting Grants 2015 Cariparo "Nonlinear partial differential equations: asymptotic problems and mean-field games".
Topics: mean field games with strong aggregation, non periodic singular perturbations for nonlinear equations, homogenization and regularity for nonlocal HJ equations.
Project: ERC Advanced Grant Project "OCLOC From Open to Closed Loop Optimal Control". Project supervisor: prof. Karl Kunisch.
Topics: nonsmooth nonconvex optimization with applications in optimal control, imaging, fracure mechanics, inverse problems in fracture mechanics.
Title of the Thesis: Some results in nonlinear PDEs: large deviations problems, nonlocal operators, and stability results for some isoperimetric problems.
Topics: homogenization for nonlinear partial differential equations (Hamilton-Jacobi equations and viscosity solutions) with applications to large deviations and mathematical finance, integro-partial differential Hamilton-Jacobi equations related to Lévy processes, stability of isoperimetric problems.
Title of the thesis: Stability results of isoperimetric inequalities for some Monge-Ampère functionals.
November 2014-June 2015: Laboratoire de mathématiques and physique theorique, Université Francois-Rabelais de Tours, Tours (France), supervisor prof. Guy Barles.
5 months PhD stage (November 2015-March 2016): ENSTA ParisTech, Palaiseau, Paris (France), supervisor prof. Hasnaa Zidani.
2 weeks visiting period (20/04/2018-04/05/2018): University of Santiago, Chile collaborating with Erwin Topp.
1 week visiting period /4(05/2024-10/05/2024): Rennes School of Business, France, collaborating with Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron, Fausto Gozzi, Marta Leocata.
2 weeks visiting period (02/02/2025-15/02/2025): Bordeaux School of Economics, France collaborating with Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron.
1 week visiting period (16/03/2025-22/03/2025): Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK, inside the project "The many facets of social inequality" organised by M. Bambi and A. Meszaros, collaborating with M. Bambi, F. Gozzi and M. Leocata.
Research Projects and Grants
2016-2019: Participant to the ERC Advanced Grant OCLOC (From Open to Cloosed Loop Optimal Control of PDEs) 2016-2021. Project supervisor: prof. Karl Kunisch (Graz and Linz, Austria).
2019-2020: Principal Investigator of the Starting Grants 2015 Cariparo "Nonlinear partial differential equations: asymptotic problems and mean-field games".
2020-2021: Participant to the PRIN 2017 "The Time-Space Evolution of Economic Activities: Mathematical Models and Empirical Applications". Project supervisor: prof. Fausto Gozzi (LUISS, Italy).
2022-2023: Coordinator of the GNAMPA project "Modelli MFGs in Economia per lo studio della dinamica del capitale umano con spillovers spaziali". Participants: M. Leocata (LUISS), C. Ricci (Pisa), D. Tonon (Padova).
2023-2024: Participant to the GNAMPA project "Modelli Matematici per i Processi Decisionali riguardanti la Transizione Energetica". Participants: M. Leocata (SNS), S. Federico (Genova), M. Aleandri (Roma), G. Del Sarto (SNS).
2024-2026: Participant to the Brazilian research project "Study of new phenomena in nonlocal elliptic equations", Projeto Universal, Research Agency CNPq, Junior Level. Supervisor: prof. Erwin Topp (Rio de Janiero, Brasil).
2024-2025: Participant to the project "Uncertainty in economics and finance: some mathematical point of view", Project "Dipartimento di Eccellenza" (University of Pavia). Participants: E. Caprari (Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia), B. Ferrario (Department of Economics and Management,University of Pavia), E. Molho (Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia).
2025: Coordinator of the GNAMPA project "Modelli economici ambientali via MFGs sui grafi e grafoni: studio analitico e assimilazione dei dati". Participants: F. Camilli (Pescara),R. Capuani (Arizona), L. Marzufero (Bolzano).
December 2024- 2025: member of the PRIN 2022 "Impact of the Human Activities on the Environment and Economic Decision Making in a Heterogeneous Setting", project supervisor: prof. Fausto Gozzi.
Academic responsibilities:
May 2023: member of the committee for the "Bando didattica integrativa Matematica Generale", Bando 393/2023, Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia.
Since September 2023 I am a member of the "Research Committee" at the Department of Economics and Management,University of Pavia.
Since September 2023 I am responsible for the organization of the tutoring activity for the course "General Mathematics", Department of Economics and Management (University of Pavia).
2023-2024: Responsible of the tutoring activity for the course "Mathematics for Management", spring semester 2023 and spring semester 2024, Department of Economics and Management, (University of Pavia)
Co-organizer (with prof. Bormetti) of the Seminars "Women in Mathematical Finance" in collaboration with Collegio Ghislieri at the University of Pavia.
Courses outside the University of Pavia:
"Some applications of Mean Field Games to Economics and Finance", 16 hours for Master students, Febraury 2025, Bordeaux School of Economics, Bordeaux, France, within the ERASMUS+ project of the University of Pavia.
Summer School on "Combinatorial stochastic models and Mean Field Games" within the Program "Summer School of Mathematics for Economic and Social Sciences" founded and organized by the "Mathematics Research Center Ennio de Giorgi" and partially supported by the "International Doctoral Program in Economics" of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. September 2025.
Organised conferences and sessions in conferences:
Conference "Mean Field Games and related topic 5", Levico Terme, September 2019
"Nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization: problems and methods", mini symposium during the EWM General Meeting, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Graz, Austria, September 2018
"Mean Field Games and Applications", special session at AMASES 2022, Palermo, Italy, September 2022.
"Stochastic optimal control and numerical methods in economics and finance", special session at the LSSC'23, Sozopol (Bulgaria), June 2023.
"Agent-based Models and Dynamic Optimization for the Green Energy Transition", special session at AMASES 2023, Milano, Italy, September 2023.
"Optimal control problems and mean-field games in mathematical economics, finance, and insurance", special session in AMASES 2024, co-organizer with A. Calvia (Department of Economics and Management, University of Parma), Ischia, Italy.
"Mathematical models for the Green Energy Transition and Sustainable Development", special session in AMASES 2024, co-organizer with M.Leocata (Department of Economics and Finance, LUISS); Ischia, Italy.
"Mean field games, Mean Field Control and Economics Applications", special session in ORCOS 2025, July 2025, Viennese Conference on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games, Vienna (Austria).
"Mean Field Games, Mean Field control and Application in Economics and Finance", Three-Day Workshop, 9-10-11 April 2025 at the University of Pavia, co-organizer with M. Leocata (Department of Economics and Finance, LUISS), G. Liveri (Department of Statistics, London School of Economics) and D. Tonon (Department of Mathematics, Padua).
Referee activities for the journals: CPAA (Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis), EJOR (European Journal of Operational Research), JME (Journal of Mathematical Economics), J. Stat. Softw. (Journal of Statistical Software), MMA (Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences), NODEA (Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications), SICON (SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization), SINUM (SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis), DGA (Dynamic Games and Applications), JOTA (Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications)
Membership of associations:
AMASES Associazione per la Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Economiche e Sociali (Association for Mathematics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences)
UMI (Unione Matematica italiana) CLImath group