Laura Cossu

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I work as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Cagliari, Italy.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz (Austria) supported by various grants, including a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission and a Principal Investigator project from the Austrian Science Fund. Currently, I continue my collaboration with the University of Graz as an external member of the Graz School of Discrete Mathematics and the Doctoral School of Mathematics and Scientific Computing.

I have been a visiting researcher at New Mexico State University (NM, USA), University of California, Irvine (CA, USA), Montclair State University (NJ, USA), Hebei Normal Univesity (China), and the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium).

I obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Padova (Italy) in October 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Zanardo. Following my Ph.D., I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Padova for two years.

Here you can find my CV

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Since October 2025 I am a member of the standing committee of EWM (European Women in Mathematics).
The CSASC 2026 – Joint Meeting and Conference of the Czech, Slovenian, Austrian, Slovak and Catalan Mathematical Societies will take place in Pilsen, Czechia, on February 2-6, 2026, and it will host a workshop on Representation Theory and Commutative and non-Commutative Algebra.

You can read here my interview for the Spotlight program of the Austrian Association of Women in Mathematics. For the topic Grant Applications, I talked about my experience with the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of the European Commission.

Here is my portrait for the series #PortraitOfAMathematician on LinkedIn.

Photos (from the top): a view of the beach of Capo Comino in my hometown in Sardinia.At my desk at the University of Graz (Austria).

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