Francesca Fedele

From October 2026, I hold a Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, with local host Karin Baur.

Between October 2022 and September 2026, I was a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds,  jointly funded by the EPSRC grant Combinatorial Representation Theory: Algebra and its interfaces with geometry, topology and combinatorics (working with Bethany Marsh) and by an Academic Development fellowship, awarded by the School of Mathematics in Leeds. 

Previously, I was a postdoc at the University of Verona, and based at the University of Padova, as part of the REDCOM: Reducing complexity in algebra, logic, combinatorics project with PI Lidia Angeleri Hügel.

I completed my PhD at Newcastle University in 2021 under the supervision of Peter Jørgensen, there I was part of the Higher Homological Algebra group.

My main research interests are in representation theory, (higher) homological algebra, cluster theory and their combinatorial and categorical aspects. Nowadays I am also working in presentation of groups (complex reflection and complex braid groups); and building more connections between  category theory and representation theory through the study of pretorsion theories.