Gianluca Faraco

I am keen on working on topics arising in Low-Dimensional Topology and having connection with Dynamical Systems.

Current Position

From October 2022 I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy).

Mentor: Prof. Stefano Pigola


Past appointments

From March 2021 to February 2022 I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. In March 2022 I moved to University of Bonn. My mentor was Prof. Ursula Hamenstädt. Before I was a Raman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mathematics at IISc Bangalore, India, from March 2020 to February 2021 under the mentorship of Prof. Subhojoy Gupta. Prior to this, I was a Visiting Fellow at TIFR Mumbai from September 2018 to August 2019 under the mentorship of Prof. Anish Ghosh. I achieved my Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Ferrara (Italy) under the mentoring of Prof.  Stefano Francaviglia.


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Home is behind, the world ahead,

And there are many paths to tread 

Through shadows to the edge of night,

Until the stars are all alight.


The Lord of Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

Me and my mathematical family ( July 2018 )

From the left to the right: Lorenzo Ruffoni, Alessio Savini, myself, Alex Casella and Stefano Francaviglia