Scientific Activities

Visiting scholar at the Dept. of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Chicago (Illinois - USA): February-May 2001

Visiting scholar at the Dept. of Mathematics of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Michigan - USA): March 2001

Visiting position at the Dept. of Mathematics of the University of Strasbourg - Cedex (France): April 2004

Visiting position at the Dept. of Mathematics of the University of Bergen (Norway): September 2008

Research fellows at KIAS (Korea Institute of Advanced Studies): October 2010

Invited Lecturer at Workshop on Curves and Jacobians (Yangyang, Korea): Korean Institute for Advanced Study, October 2010

Invited lecturer for undergraduate courses at Univ. of Bergen (Norway) in the framework of "Erasmus bilateral teaching agreement programme", a.a.2012/13: April 2013.

Prof. Invité - Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications, Université de Poitiers (France): March-April 2014.

Institut Fourier – Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université de Grenoble (France): April 2014.

Invited at Oberwolfach (Germany): November 2015

Invited at KIAS (Korea Institute of Advanced Studies): February 2016

Invited at Institut Fourier – Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université de Grenoble (France): June 2016.

Invited at KIAS (Korea Institute of Advanced Studies): January-February 2017

Invited at Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications, Université de Poitiers (France): March 2019

Conference "Giornate di Geometria Algebrica e questioni collegate V", Gargnano, May 2000;

Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Chicago, February 2001;

Department of Mathematics of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, March 2001;

Scientific school PRAGMATIC 2001, Catania, June 2001 (2 Conferences);

EAGER 2001 - Advanced school in Algebraic Geometry : Moduli spaces of curves, Levico Terme (TN), September, 2001;

Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Universita' di L' Aquila, January 2002.

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata", February 2002.

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' "Roma Tre", November 2002.

IMA Ecole Polithecniques de Lousanne, December 2002.

Workshop "Global Geometry of Algebraic Varieties", Madrid, December 2002.

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata", April 2003.

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Milano, April 2003.

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Pavia, May 2003.

PRAGMATIC 2003, Catania, June 2003;

XVII Congresso UMI, Milano, September 2003;

Meeting on Algebraic Varieties, Rome, December 2003;

Projective varieties with unespected properties: a conference in honour of the 150th birthday of G. Veronese, Siena, June 2004;

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Genova, October 2004.

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Pisa, March 2006.

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Padova, May 2007.

Joint Meeting UMI-DMV, Special session: Complex Algebraic Geometry, Perugia, June 2007.

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di L'Aquila, April 2008.

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Torino, April 2008.

Conference Algebraic Geometry, D-modules and Foliations. Session: Algebraic Geometry, Buenos-Aires (Argentina), July 2008.

Mathematics Department, University of Bergen (Norway), September 2008.

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Genova, November 2008.

Main lecturer at the Workshop Curves and Jacobians , KIAS (Korea) October 2010 (4 Lectures).

Conference 15 years of Pragmatic: a conference in Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, Catania (Italy) Sept. 2012.

Workshop in Algebraic Geometry Univ. Europea di Roma, Rome (Italy), June 2013.

Conference "New Trends in Algebraic Geometry", Università della Calabria, 12-14 June 2013.

Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications, Université de Poitiers (France) - 2014 March-April.

Institut Fourier – Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université de Grenoble (France) , April 2014.

Dip.to Matematica Universita' L'Aquila November 2015.

KIAS Seoul (Korea), February 2016. (Scientific course, 10 hours).

Dip.to Matematica Universita' L'Aquila November 2016.

KIAS Seoul (Korea), January-February 2017. (Scientific course).

Conference "Modern Algebra & Classical Geometry together with Edoardo Sernesi", Trento, 21-24 June 2017.

Conference "A day to remember Aldo Biancofiore", L'Aquila, 8 September 2017.

Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications, Université de Poitiers (France) - 2019 March.

2021 Korean Mathematical Society Spring Meeting (Zoom Conference) - 2021 April.

Conference "Algebraic Geometry in L'Aquila", L'Aquila, 18-21 July 2023.

Conference "Bandoleros 2023", Torino, 23-25 October 2023.

Conference "Workshop in Classical Algebraic Geometry", Daejeon (South Korea), 12-15 December 2023.

Conference "46th Frontier Scientists Workshop", KAST and Accademia Nazionale Lincei, 18-21 October 2025.

Co-chair European Network GDRE coordination GRIFGA 2012/2015 Consortium CNRS-INdAM research project in Algebraic Geometry (Chair Massimiliano Mella - Univ. Ferrara)  

Italian MIUR PRIN Project coordination MIUR PRIN 2015 Chair of the Node "Tor Vergata"

PI of the project “Families of curves: their moduli and their related varieties”, CUP: E81|18000100005 2015-2017 in the framework of the project Mission Sustainability  

Chair of local funds "Ex 60%-Quota Meriti Scientifici" of the Algebraic Geometry Group of the Mathematics Department of Tor Vergata

Supporting Lecturer presso la Scuola di Ricerca "Pragmatic2001 - Catania, 11 - 29 Giugno 2001. Main lecturers: C. Ciliberto (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) e R. Miranda (Colorado State Univ.).

Supporting Lecturer presso la Scuola di Ricerca "Pragmatic2003" - Catania, 9 - 28 Giugno 2003. Main lecturers: I. Dolgachev (Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor) e A. Verra (Univ. Roma Tre).

Lecturer in the Workshop "Curves and Jacobians", (in coll. with E. Sernesi), Yangyang (Seoul) - KOREA - October 18-21, 2010. (Korea Institute for Advanced Study). Lecture notes: "Lectures on Brill-Noether theory", pubblicate in Curves and Jacobians. Eds. J-M Muk, Y. R. Kim, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, (2011), 1-20

Lecturer in the PhD course: "Curve algebriche, divisori speciali e schemi di Hilbert", (in coll. with C. Ciliberto), PhD School in in Mathematics - U. Roma "Tor Vergata", II semester 2010/2011.

Lecturer in the PhD course: Schémas de Hilbert et espaces de modules de courbes, PhD School in Mathematics - Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications - Université de Poitiers. March-April 2014.

Lecturer in master Course: MAT243 - Manifolds - April 2013, Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Bergen (Norway) in the framework of Erasmus bilateral agreement training programme, 2012/13

Member in M.I.U.R. PRIN Projects  since 2000.

Member of Eager.

Member of INdAM-GNSAGA.

Member of UMI.

Member of MIUR-PANEL Reprise from June 2015.

Member of the Permanent staff of International Associated Laboratory LIA-AMU-CNRS-INdAM Laboratory Ypatia of Mathematical Sciences (LYSM)   

Member of the Editorial Board of the volume:  "Birational Geometry of surfaces", in Boll.Unione Mat. Ital., 11, no.1 (2018).

Referee for the Journals: Advances in Geometry, Annales Scientifiques ENS, Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Applied Mathematics Letters, Collectanea Mathematica, Finite Fields and their Applications, Geometriae Dedicata, International Mathematics Research Notices, Journal of Algebra, Publicacions Matemàtiques, Rendiconti Circolo Matematico Palermo, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and for books edited by Springer Italia, European Mathematical Society.

Referee for “ERC Advanced Grant (2013)”

Referee for “Fellowship Programme co-funded by Marie Curie Actions (2013)”

Referee for “INdAM Fellowship Programme cofunded by Marie Curie Actions (2015) ”

Reviewer for AMS-Mathscinet (Algebraic Geometry).

Member of the Organizing Commitee for the Conference "VBAC 2001 - The Geometry of Moduli Spaces", Rome, September 2001.

Supporting organizer of the Conference Perspectives in Classification and Moduli Theory Cortona 14-20 November 2002.

Member of the Scientific and Organizing Commitee for the Conference "Meeting of Algebraic Varieties", Rome, 10-15 December 2003

Member of the Scientific Commitee Concorso Ricercatore in Geometria, Padova, December 2005.

Named by INdAM member of the Scientific Commitee for Concorso 10 borse Laurea Specialistica in Matematica Roma, September 2006.

Member of the Scientific Commitee of PhD Final examination Universita' Roma Tre, May 2009

Member of the Scientific and Organizing Commitee for the conference "MJdR, a conference in honour of Marialuisa J. de Resmini", Rome, 24-25 September 2009

Member of the Organizing Commitee of the "Workshop on Classical Algebraic Geometry", Rome, 9-11 February 2011.

Named by MIUR member of the Scientific Commitee for Conferma in ruolo Professori Associati (Geometria MAT/03), 10 March 2011.

Scientific Organizer for the Section = ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY, XIX CONGRESSO UNIONE MATEMATICA ITALIANA Bologna, 12-17 September 2011.

Member of the Scientific Commitee of the Workshop "Algebraic Geometry: two days in Rome II", Rome, February 2012.

Member of the Scientific Commitee of the Workshop "Algebraic Geometry: III to II" , Rome, February 2012.

Organizer for the Lecture series: "Curves of low degrees in Fano varieties", Tor Vergata, 08/05-10/05/2012 (Lecturer: O. Debarre).

Member of the Scientific Commitee of the "Colloquium GRIFGA 2013", Strasbourg, March 2013.

Member of the Scientific Commitee of the "Workshop on Severi Varieties and Hyperkaehler Manifolds", Rome, November 2013.

Organizer for the Lecture series: "Curves and linear systems on K3 surfaces", Tor Vergata, 12/01-02/02/2015 (Speakers: A.L.Knutsen & M. Ramponi).

Member of the Scientific Commitee of "Colloquium GRIFGA 2015" Gargnano (BS), April 2015.

Organizer for the Lecture series: "Affine algebraic surfaces and the Zariski cancellation problem", Tor Vergata, October-November 2015 (Lecturer: M. Zaidenberg).

Member of the Scientific and Organizing committee of the Workshop: " Birational geometry of surfaces ", Tor Vergata January 2016

Named by INdAM member of the Scientific Commitee for Concorso 8 borse Laurea Specialistica in Matematica Roma, September-December 2016.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the conference: " GVA2016", Levico Terme (TN) June 2016.

Referee for PhD thesis in Algebraic Geometry, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, February 2018

Member of the Scientific Commitee of PhD Final examination Universita' Roma Tre, April 2018

Member of the Scientific Commitee of PhD Final examination Universita' di L'Aquila, May 2018

Named by INdAM member of the Scientific Commitee for Concorso 40 Borse di studio e 2 borse aggiuntive per l' iscrizione ai Corsi di Laurea in Matematica per l'a.a. 2018-19 June 2018.

Organizer for the Lecture series: "Curves on K3 surfaces", Tor Vergata, January-February 2019 (Lecturer: E. Sernesi) - in the framework of the Research Project "Families of curves: their moduli and their related varieties" - Mission Suistanability Tor Vergata, CUP: E81|18000100005, Principal Investigator F. Flamini.

Organizer for the (online) Lecture series: "On rationality of complex algebraic varieties", Tor Vergata, May-June 2021 (Lecturer: T. de Fernex) - in the framework of the "MIUR Excellence Project 2018-2022 " - Math@Tov, CUP E83C18000100006

Member of the Scientific Commitee for the Conference: "Joy in Algebraic Geometry A conference in honor of Rick Miranda for his 70th birthday ", Levico Terme (TN) 26-29 September 2023

Member of the Scientific Commitee of PhD Final examination Universita' Roma Tre, November 2026

Member of the Scientific Commitee of PhD Final examination Universita' Roma Tre, May 2026