Lara Vicino

pronouns: she/her/hers

I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Algebra Group of the Bernoulli Institute at the University of Groningen.

I am also a member of the research consortium "Rational points: new dimensions".

I received my PhD from the Technical University of Denmark, where I studied under the supervision of Peter Beelen and Maria Montanucci.

!NEWS!

Paper out in FFA: P. Beelen, M. Montanucci, L. Vicino, Weierstrass semigroups and automorphism group of a maximal function field with the third largest possible genus, $q \equiv 1 \pmod 3$, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ffa.2025.102701

I have been awarded a DFF-International Postdoc Grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, for my research project "From surfaces over finite fields to error correction for cloud storage". The grant will finance for 2 years my research at the University of Groningen, starting February 2026.

As part of the "Rational points: new dimensions" research consortium, I organized a Learning Seminar on AG Codes. If you are interested in the topic, you can find the seminar plan and notes of some of the talks here.

Research Interests

Algebraic curves over finite fields
- Weierstrass semigroups
- Automorphisms of curves
- Maximal curves
Algebraic Geometry codes
- AG codes from curves
- Locally Recoverable Codes from higher-dimensional varieties
Towers of function fields over finite fields

You can find out more about my research on my Research page.