Qualifications
•Shortlisted ex-aequo for a position of Full Professor in Mathematical Analysis, University of Roma La Sapienza
•Giovanni Prodi Professorship for the Summer 2024, University of Würzburg.
•2018 National Qualification for Full Professor in Analysis, with distinction.
•2013 National Qualification for Full Professor in Analysis, with distinction.
•2013 Qualification de Professeur in France pour la section 25: Mathematics.
Visiting Positions abroad
•Giovanni Prodi Professorship for the Summer 2024, University of Würzburg
•HCM Bonn Visitor for the special program ”Current challenges in complex
materials: modelling and analysis”, January/April 2023;
•ICMS Research in Groups Scheme for the project titled “FERRONEMA-
TICS IN CONFINEMENT: ASYMPTOTICS, SINGULARITIES AND NEW
PERSPECTIVES ” , 2 weeks in August2022;
•invited at BCAM (supported) for a collaboration with Arghir Zarnescu ,
May 1/8 2022;
•invited for the minisymposium“Soft materials: liquid crystals and beyond
”(organized by I. Fonseca, D. Golovaty,P.Palffy-Muhoray, Xiaoyu Zheng)
at the SIAM MS2020 Conference in Bilbao;
•invited at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Wien for the program: New
trends in the variational modeling and simulation of liquid crystals De-
cember 2-6, 2019 https://www.asc.tuwien.ac.at/esi-liquidcrystals2019/ or-
ganized by G. Di Fratta,M.Ruggeri, Valeriy Slastikov, Arghir Zarnescu;
•invited at the Newton Institute (Cambridge)-The Mathematical Design of
New Materials, January/June 2019; Organisers: Arghir Zarnescu (BCAM
- Basque Center for Applied Mathematics), Xian Chen (Hong Kong Uni-
versity of Science and Technology), Miha Ravnik ( University of Ljubljana,
Jozef Stefan Institute), Valeriy Slastikov ( University of Bristol);
•July 20th/ August 5th 2018, Visiting Professor at Pontificia Universidad
Catòlica de Chile, supported by VatexMate (University Federico II) and
FONDECYT project 1150038 of the Chilean Ministry of Education;
•2 weeks in September 2017 ICMS (Edinburgh) Research in Groups Scheme
for the project titled “Minimizers in the Landau-de Gennes theory for ne-
matic liquid crystals — regularity, singularities and generalizations” ;
•9/11 2016 Visiting the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDEs ;
•10/12 2015 Visiting the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDEs and EPSRC
Centre for Doctoral Training in PDEs, Michaelmas term 2015, Minicourse
: Glimpses of Lipschitz truncations and regularity, notes available online.
•2013/09 Visiting Professor at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences, Djursholm, Stockholm for the special semester “Evo-
lutionary problems”.
•2012 April, Visiting at the Australian National University (Canberra).
•2011 September, Helsinki University of Technology.
•2011 May, LMU, Munich;3
•2010 October, UAM,(Madrid), Fluids and Calculus of Variations;
•2010 February, visit to Oxford University;
•2008 May : visit to University of Michigan and Syracuse University.
•2007 Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen;
•2005 seminars at the Department of Mathematics University of Berna.
•2001 summer visiting at Pitt University;
•1999/09 Visiting Professor at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences, Djursholm, Stockholm for the special year in Nonlin-
ear Potential Theory (granted);
•1999/04 Visiting Professor at Pitt University (PA) Short term mobility
grant University Federico II;
•1993/09-04/02 Syracuse University (NY) Visiting Professor (CNR Grant).
Lectures 2019/td
•Invited speaker for the Conference Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,
Jyväskylä, 9-12 giugno 2026.
•Invited speaker for the Workshop Recent challenges in the mathematical
design of new materials, Newton Institute ,Cambridge, August 18/22, 2025;
•Invited speaker for the International Workshop:Physics and Mathematics of
Topological Textures, Budapest 14/16 May 2025(COST Action Polytopo);
•Invited speaker for the OIST Conference Sub-Riemannian Analysis and
Geometry, Okinawa, (January 14-16, 2025) organized by Q. Liu, Y. Zhang, and X.
Zhou;
•Invited speaker for the Workshop (Non)local (non)linear workshop I in
Prague, 26/28 novembre 2024;
•Oberseminar Würzburg University, October 23, 2024;
•Invited for the Banff meeting ”Mathematical Analysis of Soft Matter”
(www.birs.ca/events/2024/5-day-workshops/24w5249), 30 giugno/5 luglio
2024, organizzatori:D.Beller, L. Bronsard, C. Calderer, A. Zarnescu and D.
Golovaty;
•Workshop on Nonlinear Parabolic PDEs, Mittag-Leffler Institute, Djur-
sholm, Sweden, May 20/24 2024;
•Invited for the workshop “Probabilistic and game theoretical interpreta-
tion of PDEs”, Madrid nel ICMAT-UAM 2023 Thematic Period on PDEs
“Diffusion, Geometry, Probability and Free Boundaries”;
•Invited for the meeting Variational methods for nonlinear PDEs, Cardiff ,
4/7 luglio 2023;
•Seminario at the University of Bologna:January 26,2023 : Local regularity
estimates for the Kolmogorov equation;
•Seminar :A 2D model for ferronematics with weak coupling, at the workshop
“Current challenges in complex materials: modelling and analysis” Dates:
9th to 13th January 2023, Hausdorff Research Institute in Mathematics,
Bonn;
•invited for the online Seminar Geometric and functional inequalities and
applications , University of Connecticut, September19, 2022;
•invited for the INdAM Meeting ” Kolmogorov Operators and their appli-
cations”, Cortona, June 12/17 2022;
•invited for the special session “Geometric and Functional Inequalities and
Applications to PDEs” at the AMS Spring 2022 Western Sectional Meeting
(Meeting 1178), May 14/15 2022;
•selected for the long talk at the XXXI Convegno di Calcolo delle Variazioni,
Levico Terme , May 9/13, 2022;
•Seminar in Analysis, UniMoRe, An introduction to Asymptotic Mean Value
Properties, June 9, 2021,(online),
http://www.mathematical-analysis.unimore.it/ ;
•Monday’s Nonstandard Seminar:Regularity results for Minimizers of Dis-
continuous Quasiconvex Integrals with General Growth , March 8, 2021,
(online),https://www.mimuw.edu.pl/ ichlebicka/nonstandard-seminar.html;
•Seminar in Analysis , University of Naples;
•invited for the minisymposium“Soft materials: liquid crystals and beyond
”(organized by I. Fonseca, D. Golovaty,P.Palffy-Muhoray, Xiaoyu Zheng)
at the SIAM MS2020 Conference in Bilbao, May 17, 2021;
•Organizer with F.Solombrino and P.Piovano of the minisymposium“Textures,
interfaces, and defects in crystalline and magnetic materials: the variational
viewpoint”at the SIAM Materials 2020, May 17/ 21, 2021;
•Einladung zum Oberseminar (online), Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften,
Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, May 29, 2020, A free boundary
problem for smectics,
•seminar at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for the program New trends
in the variational modeling and simulation of liquid crystals, December2-6,
2019,
https://www.asc.tuwien.ac.at/esi-liquidcrystals2019/;
•invited for the conference: Local and Nonlocal Trends in Analysis and
Geometry, University of Pittsburgh, October 11-13, 2019;
https://sites.google.com/view/pittpde19/home
•Seminars at the Newton Institute for the Special Program: The Mathematical Design of New Materials;
•Lectures at Warwick, Bath, Swansea University, June 2019.
Research funding obtained(last ten years)
• University of Naples Federico II FRA Project-B “VarMoCry” on Variational Analysis and Modeling of Liquid Crystals.
•Participant in the COST action POLYTOPO-CA23134;Topological Tex-
tures in Condensed Matter 2024/28;
•ICMS Research in Groups Scheme for the project titled BLUE PHASES+FERRONEMATICS,
2 weeks September 2024;
•Ghent University, August 19/23 2024;
•Giovanni Prodi Professorship for the Summer 2024, University of Würzburg
•invited at Hausdorff Centre for Mathematics, Bonn for the special pro-
gram:Mathematics for complex materials, organizzatori : X. Lamy(Toulouse),
Luc Nguyen (Oxford), A.Ruland (Bonn), A.Zarnescu (BCAM),three weeks;
•Participant in the StarPlus Project Ne(matic) Var(iational)Co(ntinuum)
Me(chanics), P.I. Francesco Solombrino,starting in February 2022 (100.000
euros);
•ICMS Research in Groups Scheme for the project titled “FERRONEMA-
TICS IN CONFINEMENT: ASYMPTOTICS, SINGULARITIES AND NEW
PERSPECTIVES ” , 2 weeks in August 2022 .
•invited at BCAM (supported) for a collaboration with Arghir Zarnescu ,
May 2022;
•invited for the minisymposium“Soft materials: liquid crystals and beyond
”(organized by I. Fonseca, D. Golovaty,P.Palffy-Muhoray, Xiaoyu Zheng)
at the SIAM MS2020 Conference in Bilbao;
•invited at the Newton Institute (Cambridge)-The Mathematical Design of
New Materials, January/June 2019; Organisers: Arghir Zarnescu (BCAM
- Basque Center for Applied Mathematics), Xian Chen (Hong Kong Uni-
versity of Science and Technology), Miha Ravnik ( University of Ljubljana,
Jozef Stefan Institute), Valeriy Slastikov ( University of Bristol);
•July 20th/ August 5th 2018, Visiting Professor at Pontificia Universidad
Cat´olica de Chile, supported by VatexMate (University Federico II) and
FONDECYT project 1150038 of the Chilean Ministry of Education;
•Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Dis-
covery (BIRS) workshop: Partial Order in Materials: at the Triple Point
of Mathematics, Physics and Applications, Organizers: Jeff Chen (Univer-
sity of Waterloo), Apala Majumdar (University of Bath), Changyou Wang
(Purdue University), Pingwen Zhang (Peking University), November 26
/December 1 2017.
•two weeks in September 2017 at the ICMS (Edinburgh) for the Research
in pairs project: “Minimizers in the Landau-de gennes theory for nematic
liquid crystals: regularity, singularities and generalizations”.
http://www.icms.org.uk/proposals/rigs;
•September/November 2016 Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDEs;
•2015 Michaelmas Trimester Visiting Professor at the Oxford Mathematical
Institute , supported by Oxford Mathematical Department and by CDT of
Oxford. Minicourse for the Centre for Doctoral Training in PDEs: Glimpses
of Lipschitz truncations and regularity.
•2013/09 Visiting Professor at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences, Djursholm, Stockholm for the special semester “Evo-
lutionary problems”.
Organizer of meetings and Schools
•Italian member of the Organizing Committee of the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS27),May 2–5 , 2027, Bellevue, Washington, U.S.;
•Organizer with J.Ok of the meeting Three days on p-Laplacian, Naples 25/27 November 26;
•Organizer with S.Almi, N.Fusco, G.Scilla of the meeting Variational models
in material science IV, Naples 24/26 June 26;
•Organizer with S.Almi, N.Fusco, G.Scilla of the meeting Variational models
in material science III, Naples 24/26 February 25;
•Organizer withF. Dipasquale, N.Fusco and F.Solombrino of the meeting
Variational models in material science II, Naples 21/23 February 24;
•CIME School 2023 :Variational and PDE Methods in Nonlinear Science,
Direttori: F. Bethuel, G.Orlandi, B.Stroffolini. 4 Minicorsi: 1.F.Bethuel;
2.D.Henao; 3. A.Majumdar; 4.A.Ruland.
https://sites.google.com/unifi.it/cime/c-i-m-e-courses/c-i-m-e-courses-2023/variational-
and-pde-methods-in-nonlinear-science;
•Organizer with M.Caponi, F.Dipasquale, G.Scilla, F.Solombrino of the
meeting Variational models in material science, Naples 8/10 February 23
https://sites.google.com/view/variame23;
•Organizer with F.Solombrino of the minisymposium“Textures, interfaces,
and defects in crystalline and magnetic materials: the variational view-
point”at the SIAM Materials 2020;
•Workshop: Mathematical Modeling for Science and Engineering, Napoli
September 11st/13th 2019.http: mmse.dieti.unina.it;15
•Workshop: Nonlinear Averaging and PDEs, Levico 19/22 giugno 2019.http:
napde.dieti.unina.it.
•PhD school at the School of Engineering: “Advances in Continuum Theories
for Liquid Crystals” , September 2018.
•Organizer of a minisymposium in Gaeta Conference , May 2016.
•“Geometric Function Theory and Nonlinear Analysis ”, Ischia, October
11– 14 , 2007; URL address: http://www.dma.unina.it/ tadeusz2007/
•“Geometric Analysis and PDEs”, Napoli, September 1– 4 settembre, 2006;
ICM Satellite Conference of te International Congress of Mathematicians ,
Madrid 2006; URL address:http://www.dma.unina.it/ geomanalysis/