Employment
Assistant professor (tenure track), University of Turin, since 2024.
Postdoctoral Instructor, UT Austin, 2023 - 2024.
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (postdoc), Leibniz University Hannover, 2020 - 2023.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ben-Gurion University, 2018 - 2020.
Visiting positions
Yale University, May - July 2018.
Education
Dottorato di ricerca: Roma Tre University, 2018. Advisor: Lucia Caporaso. Thesis: Orientations, break divisors and compactified Jacobians.
Diplom: Humboldt University Berlin, 2014. Advisor: Gavril Farkas. Thesis: The Harbourne-Hirschowitz Conjecture.
Publications
with Xiang He and Ilya Tyomkin: The irreducibility of Hurwitz spaces and Severi varieties on toric surfaces; arXiv: 2501.16238 (2025).
with Myrla Barbosa and Margarida Melo: Clifford representatives via the uniform algebraic rank, J. London Math. Soc., 111: e70193 (2025); arXiv: 2406.03987.
with Xiang He and Ilya Tyomkin: Balancing properties of tropical moduli maps; arXiv: 2403.15686 (2024).
Special divisors in special divisor classes on graphs, Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser 74, 169 (2025); arXiv: 2312.13207.
with Qixiao Ma: Bounding the number of graph refinements for Brill-Noether existence; arXiv: 2304.07405 (2023).
A Clifford inequality for semistable curves, Mathematische Zeitschrift 303, 15 (2023); arXiv: 2204.08234.
with Xiang He and Ilya Tyomkin: Degeneration of curves on some polarized toric surfaces, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, no. 787, pp. 197-240 (2022); arXiv: 2012.06766.
with Xiang He and Ilya Tyomkin: On the Severi problem in arbitrary characteristic, Publ. Math. IHÉS 137, pp. 1 - 45 (2023); arXiv: 2005.04134.
On the rank of general linear series on stable curves, Mathematische Annalen 388, pp. 2217–2240 (2024); arXiv: 2005.12817.
with Sam Payne and Tif Shen: Compactified Jacobians as Mumford models, Transactions of the AMS 376, pp. 4605 - 4630 (2023); arXiv: 1912.03653.
with Lucia Caporaso: Combinatorics of compactified universal Jacobians, Advances in Mathematics, 346, pp. 1091 - 1136 (2019); arXiv: 1801.04098.
Orientations, break divisors and compactified Jacobians (2018), PhD thesis.
Honors
Noriko Sakurai post doctoral prize, Center for Advanced studies in Mathematics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 2021.
Teaching
Instructor for Scheme theory, 2024.
Instructor for Geometry of Algebraic curves, 2024.
Instructor for Discrete Mathematics, 2023.
Instructor for Brill Noether theory, 2022.
Teaching assistant for Mathematics for Engineer II, 2022 and 2023.
Teaching assistant for Algebra I, 2021.
Co-organizer of working seminar on tropical geometry, 2021.
Teaching assistant for Linear Algebra II, 2021.
Teaching assistant for Linear Algebra I, 2016 and 2020.
Languages
German (native), English (fluent), Italian (advanced), Russian (intermediate)