Joana Cirici
Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica
Universitat de Barcelona
Gran Via 585, 08007 Barcelona
Office P2-46
and
Joana Cirici
Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica
Universitat de Barcelona
Gran Via 585, 08007 Barcelona
Office P2-46
and
I am a member of the Geometry and Topology Research Group at Universitat de Barcelona.
Research Interests
I work on Algebraic Topology and its interactions with Algebraic Geometry and Complex Geometry. This includes:
Topology of algebraic varieties, mixed Hodge theory and Galois actions in étale cohomology.
Rational and p-adic homotopy theory, operads, formality and cohomological operations.
Topology of (almost) complex manifolds and related geometric structures (including Kähler, symplectic, Poisson and generalized geometries).
Editorial
I am Managing Editor of Collectanea Mathematica, the Journal of the Institute of Mathematics at Universitat de Barcelona. Consider submitting your work!
Preprints
On the l-adic homotopy type of configuration spaces (with Geoffroy Horel)
Preprint arxiv: 2606.31949[ math.AT]
On the real homotopy type of compact complex surfaces
Preprint arXiv: 2601.01958 [math.AT].
Publications
Equivariant formality of the little disks operad (with Pedro Boavida and Geoffroy Horel)
Forum of Mathematics, Pi (First Online 2026).
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Formality of hypercommutative algebras of Kähler and Calabi-Yau manifolds (with Geoffroy Horel)
Journal of the European Mathematical Society (First online 2026).
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An operadic proof of the BTT Theorem (with Geoffroy Horel)
Philosophical Transactions A (2026).
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Model category structures on truncated multicomplexes for complex geometry (with Muriel Livernet and Sarah Whitehouse)
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Vol. 57, Issue 12 (2025).
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A-infinity structures for Bott-Chern and Aeppli cohomologies (with Roger Garrido-Vilallave and Anna Sopena-Gilboy)
Complex Manifolds Volume 12 Issue 1 (2025).
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Homotopy BV-algebras in Hermitian geometry (with Scott O. Wilson)
Journal of Geometry and Physics, Vol 204, 105275 (2024).
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Weight decompositions on algebraic models for mapping spaces and homotopy automorphisms (with Bashar Saleh)
Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 21, art. nr. 156, (2024).
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Cup and Massey products on the cohomology of compact almost complex manifolds
Rivista di Matematica della Università di Parma, Vol 13, n.2 (2022).
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Étale cohomology, purity and formality with torsion coefficients (with Geoffroy Horel)
Journal of Topology, (2022).
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Hodge-de Rham numbers of almost complex 4-manifolds (with Scott O. Wilson)
Expositiones Mathematicae, (2022).
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Filtered A-infinity structures in complex geometry (with Anna Sopena-Gilboy)
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 150 (2022), no. 9, 4067-4082.
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Sheaves of E-infinity algebras and applications to algebraic varieties and singular spaces (with David Chataur)
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 375, no. 02, 925-960 (2022).
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Dolbeault cohomology for almost complex manifolds (with Scott O. Wilson)
Advances in Mathematics. Volume 391 (2021).
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Characterization of quantum entanglement via a hypercube of Segre embeddings (with Jordi Salvadó and Josep Taron)
Quantum Information Processing 20, no. 7, Paper No. 252, 28 pp (2021).
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Model category structures and spectral sequences (with Daniela Egas Santander, Muriel Livernet and Sarah Whitehouse)
Proceedings A of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 150(6), 2815--2848 (2020).
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Mixed Hodge structures and formality of symmetric monoidal functors (with Geoffroy Horel)
Annales Scientifiques de l’École Normale Supérieure, 53(4):1071--1104 (2020).
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Almost Hermitian Identities (with Scott O. Wilson)
Mathematics, Special issue: Inequalities in Geometry and Applications, 8 1357 (2020) .
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Topological and geometric aspects of almost Kähler manifolds via harmonic theory (with Scott O. Wilson)
Selecta Mathematica 26, 35 (2020).
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Weight decompositions of Thom spaces of vector bundles in rational homotopy theory (with Urtzi Buijs and Federico Cantero)
Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures, 15, 1--26 (2020).
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Sullivan minimal models of operad algebras (with Agustí Roig)
Publicacions Matemàtiques, 63, no 1, 125--154 (2019).
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Rational Homotopy and Intersection-Formality of Complex Algebraic Varieties (with David Chataur)
Revista Matemática Complutense, 31, no 2, 479--524 (2018).
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Derived A-infinity algebras and their homotopies (with Daniela Egas Santander, Muriel Livernet and Sarah Whitehouse)
Topology and its Applications, 235, 214--268 (2018).
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Rational homotopy of complex projective varieties with normal isolated singularities (with David Chataur)
Forum Mathematicum 29, no.1, 41--57 (2017).
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Homotopy theory of mixed Hodge complexes (with Francisco Guillén)
Tohoku Mathematical Journal 68, no.3, 349--375 (2016).
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Cofibrant models of diagrams: mixed Hodge structures in rational homotopy
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 367, no.8, 5935--5970 (2015).
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Weight filtration on the cohomology of complex analytic spaces (with Francisco Guillén)
Journal of Singularities 8 , 83--99 (2014).
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E1-formality of complex algebraic varieties (with Francisco Guillén)
Algebraic & Geometric Topology 14, no.5, 3049--3079 (2014).
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Classification of isometries of spaces of constant curvature and invariant subspaces
Linear Algebra and Its Applications 450, 250--279 (2014).
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Coauthors
BiCoCalculator
BiCoCalculator is a cool program for computing invariants of complex manifolds! (updates in progress)
Ongoing Funded Projects
Homotopy Theory and Geometric Structures (PID2024-155646NB-I00), AEI, Spain (2025-2027)
Previous Funded Projects
Homotopical Invariants of Almost Complex Manifolds. Europa Excelencia (EUR2023-143450), AEI, Spain.
Geometry and Topology at Universitat de Barcelona (GiT-UB). Generalitat de Catalunya (AGAUR), Spain (SGR 00697), 2022-2024.
Operadic methods in geometry (OMG). Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France 2023-2025. (with Geoffroy Horel).
Homotopical methods in geometry. Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Spain (PID2020-117971GB-C22), 2021-2024. (with Javier Gutiérrez).
Postdocs
Haldun Özgür Bayindir Beatriu de Pinos fellowship (2025) / Ramon y Cajal (2026).
Bashar Saleh, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2020-2022).
PhD Students
Jingyuan Zhu, Funded by The Spanish National Agency of Research (2026 - ).
Co-advised with Haldun Özgür Bayindir.
Pedro Magalhães, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (2022 - 2026).
Thesis title: Mixed Hodge Formality.
Anna Sopena, funded by Generalitat de Catalunya - FI Fellowship Program (2022 - 2026).
Thesis title: Pluripotential Operadic Calculus.
Co-advised with Jonas Stelzig.
Master theses
Micaela Mura (Università degli studi di Cagliari) - Massey Products on Spectral Sequences, 2026.
Onofre Bisbal - An introduction to rational homotopy theory, 2024.
Cesar Iglesias - E-infinity algebras in algebraic topology, 2021.
Anna Sopena - Transferring Filtered Multiplicative Structures in Homotopy Theory, 2020.
Marta Bustins - Computing Dolbeault cohomology for Lie algebras with almost complex structures, 2019.
Bachelor theses
Irene Domenech - Singularitats de l'espaitemps, 2026.
Elena Gijon Ruiz - A mathematical perspective on 0-dimensional Quantum Field Theory, 2025.
Arnau Soler - Complexos cel.lulars, 2025.
Arnau Lapena - Entanglement, Segre Embeddings and Quantum Teleportation, 2025.
Roger Garrido - Homotopical aspects of hypercommutative algebras, 2024.
Juan Fernández - A geometric approach to wormhole theory, 2024.
Andrea Pérez - A Categorical Approach to Quantum Computation with Anyons, 2023.
Marc Lladó - Introduction to complex geometry and Calabi-Yau manifolds motivated by physics, 2023.
Martín de Muniategui Climente - The differential geometry behind Maxwell's equations, 2022.
Daniel Guerrero - Introduction to Conformal Geometry and Penrose diagrams, 2022.
Eric Gil - Cohomology theories of spacetimes, 2021.
Gerard Ortega - Quantum algorithms for function optimization, 2021.
Roberto Forbicia - Emergence of Causality from the Geometry of Spacetimes, 2020.
Jaume Baixas - Topological Quantum Field Theories, 2020.
Marcel Vilasís - A Geometric Approach to Quantum Entanglement Classification, 2020.
Josep Lumbreras - Efficient unitary approximations in quantum computing: the Solovay-Kitaev Theorem, 2018.
Events 2027
Women in Topology, ISTA, Viena, 25-29, January 2027.
Colloquium in Hamburg, 19 January 2027
Derived Geometry and Applications, Mainz, 5-9 April 2027.
EUR MINT summer School on Homotopical methods in Geometry, Toulouse, 28 June - 3 July 2027.
Events 2026
(Co-organizer) ALPE, Montpellier 23-24, March 2026.
Workshop: Manifolds and Moduli, Lisboa, 14-16 April 2026.
Workshop: higher structures, Roma, 17-18 September 2026.
(Co-organizer) ALPE, Barcelona, 2-3 November 2026.
Past events that I co-organized
Workshop Critical Math, Black Forest, 18-22 August 2025.
ALPE, Barcelona 21-22 May 2025.
Workshop Operadic Methods in Geometry II, Paris, 8-10 October 2024.
Higher Algebra, Geometry, and Topology, CIRM, Luminy, 6-10 May 2024.
Workshop: Operadic Methods in Geometry, Barcelona, 22-24 November 2023.
Intensive Research Program on Higher Homotopical Structures at CRM, Barcelona, February - June 2021.
Mini-workshop: Almost Complex Geometry, MFO Oberwolfach, 4-10 October 2020.
Special Session Geometric Structures, BMD2020, Barcelona, 23-24 October 2020.
Women in Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Geometry II - Berlin, 20-22 March 2019.
Workshop on infinity-operads and applications, Osnabrück, 12-14 July 2017.
Women in Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Geometry, Berlin, 13-15 September 2016.
Events 2025
Workshop: BCN-Face(t)s of Symplectic Geometry, UPC, Barcelona 28-31 January 2025.
Workshop: Complex Geometry in Aarhus, Aarhus University, Denmark. 19-21 February 2025.
Informal Workshop in Paradiso, Paradiso, Italy. 31 March - 2 April 2025.
Workshop: Beyond the telescope conjecture, Isaac Newton Institute, UK. 16-20 June 2025.
Lecture Series at European Autumn School in Topology, Utrecht, 15-19 September 2025.
MdM Closing Conference, CRM Bellaterra 18 November 2025.
Events 2024
Workshop: Alps 2024, Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise, France. 8-12 January 2024.
Homotopy Theory in Stockholm Stockholm, Sweden. 10-14 June 2024.
Conference Geometry and Physics (GAP): Moduli spaces and higher structures, Rome, Italy. 9-13 September 2024.
Workshop Generalized complex structures and homological methods, Hamburg 23-27 September 2024.
Workshop: Maths Somma Junior Meeting, CRM, Barcelona. 2-4 October 2024.
ALPE, Montpellier 9 - 10 December 2024.
Events 2023
Homotopical methods in algebraic geometry, Paris, France. 1-3 March 2023.
Complex Geometry and Lie Groups, Lecce, Italy. 22-26 May 2023.
Generalised Lie algebras in Derived Geometry, Utrecht, the Netherlands. 29 May - 2 June 2023.
ANR meeting HightAGT, Strasbourg, France. 30 May - 2 June 2023.
Conference in Homotopy Theory, Trondheim, Norway. 26-30 June 2023.
Moduli and Friends, Bucharest, Rumania. 11-15 September 2023.
Conference CATS-7: Categories and stacks in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology, Luminy, France. 16-23 October 2023.
Events 2022
Mittag-Leffer Program: higher algebraic structures in algebra, topology and geometry, Stockholm, Sweden, 17-23 January 2022.
Conference and mini-course Geometric Analysis conference at Rutgers, New Jersey, USA, 16-20 May 2022.
Barcelona Conference on Higher Structures, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 13-17 June 2022.
Twinned Conference on Homotopy Theory with Applications to Arithmetic and Geometry, MPIM Bonn, Germany, 27-30 June 2022.
Events 2021
Joint meeting of the Spanish and Mexican Mathematical societies. June 2021. (online)
Midterm workshop OCHoTop. Lille, 5-7 July 2021. (online)
Cohomology of Complex Manifolds and Special Structures, II. Levico Terme (Trento), July 2021. (online)
SFB Lecture Higher Invariants. Regensburg, July 2021.(online)
XXVII Spanish Topology Meeting, Sevilla, 22-23 October 2021.
Colloque du GDR: Topologie Algebrique et Applications, Strasbourg, 26-29 October 2021.
Events 2020
Geometry and TACoS Cohomology and Characteristic Classes of (Almost) Complex Manifolds, 7-21 July 2020. (online)
Events 2019
Conference on Higher Homotopy Algebras in Topology - MPIM Bonn, 9-10 May 2019.
Escuela JAE de Matematicas - Madrid, 10-22 June 2019.
BGSMath Junior meeting - Berlin, 26-28 June 2019.
Workshop in Homotopy Theory - MFO Oberwolfach, 4-10 August 2019.
Women in Geometry and Topology - CRM Bellaterra, Spain, 25-27 September 2019.
Bridging the Gap between Kahler and non-Kahler Complex Geometry - Banff, Canada, 27 October - 1 November 2019.
Hyperplane Arrangements and Singularities - Tokyo, Japan, 2-6 December 2019.