Research Talks (since 2022)
16/06/2026 (invited) Topological defects morphogenetic factors, Summer School "Mathematics of Liquid Crystals”, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.
03/06/2026 (invited) Cooling-Induced Morphologies in Nematic Bubbles, Gaeta, Italy, 16th National SICL Meeting - Italian Liquid Crystal Society.
01/04/2026 (invited) Nematic Bubbles, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.
23/01/2026 Napoli, Italy, PRIN mid-term meeting.
18/09/2025 The role of topological defects in biological systems, YIC 2025, Pescara, Italy.
02/09/2025 (invited) Topological Defects as Morphogenetic Factors, mini-symposium “Mathematical Modelling in Soft Matter”, SIMAI.
12/06/2025 The role of topological defects in the shape instabilities in nematic polymer networks, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Soft-Mech workshop.
05/06/2025 Damped Singular Twist Waves in Chromonics, Praga, 17th European Conference on Liquid Crystals.
20/05/2025 (invited) A theoretical framework for shape instabilities in Liquid Crystalline Network sheets with topological defects, YoungPeople4Math, Brescia-Seminario Matematico.
21/02/2025 Shape instabilities driven by topological defects in nematic polymer networks, Modena, Italy, PRIN mid-term meeting.
28/05/2024 Singular Twist Waves in Chromonics, Monte Conero, Italy, 15th National SICL Meeting - Italian Liquid Crystal Society.
24/01/2024 Inversion Ring in Chromonic Spherical Cavities, Department of Mathematics “F. Casorati”, University of Pavia, Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori in Matematica UNIPV.
23/08/2023 (invited) Chromonic Twisted Hedgehog, Isaac Newton Institute, “Uncertainty quantification and stochastic modelling of materials” programme, Cambridge UK.
12/07/2023 Contrasting quadratic and quartic elastic theories for Chromonics, Rende, Italy, 16th European Conference on Liquid Crystals.
24/03/2023 (invited) The Case of Chromonic Liquid Crystals, Department of Mathematics of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy.
23/09/2022 Paradoxes for chromonic liquid crystal droplets, 15th National SICL Meeting - Italian Liquid Crystal Society.
31/05/2022 Mathematical models for chromonic liquid crystals, University of Padova, First UMI Meeting of PhD Students.
Invited Research Visit
31/03/2026 - 2/04/2026 Invited visit and invited research seminar aimed at PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, Naples, Italy for the Summer School “Mathematics of Liquid Crystals”, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, https://nit2026.github.io/events/liquid-crystals/.
31/03/2026 - 2/04/2026 Invited visit and invited research seminar aimed at doctoral and master’s students, Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Pisa, Italy.
20/08/2023 - 01/09/2023 Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK, Research Programme: Uncertainty quantification and stochastic modelling of materials, https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/usm/. Organisers: Alain Goriely (University of Oxford, UK), Johann Guilleminot (Duke University, USA), Angela Mihai (Cardiff University, UK).
Organisation of Scientific Events
1. 16/06/2025-18/06/2025, Member of the Organizing Committee, workshop Mathematics and Mechanics of Biological Tissues, Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita”, University of Padua (Italy).
2. 24/01/2024-25/01/2024, Member of the Organizing Committee, workshop Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori in Matematica UNIPV, Department of Mathematics “F. Casorati”, University of Pavia.
3. 12/05/2020, Member of the Organizing Committee, virtual workshop Women in Maths.
Participation in Research Schools
1. 03/02/2025-05/02/2025, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, Introduction to Mechanics of Swelling, lectures delivered by Paola Nardinocchi, Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy).
2. 07/05/2024-09/05/2024, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, Introduzione ai modelli matematici per i cristalli liquidi, lectures delivered by Gaetano Napoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli (Italy).
3. 04/09/2019-17/09/2019, Ravello, Italy, Summer School on Mathematical Physics.
4. 07/05/2018-09/05/2018, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, Advanced Course Introduction to NonLinear Elasticity, lectures delivered by Michel Destrase, University of Galway (Ireland).
5. 04/09/2017-17/09/2017, Ravello, Italy, Summer School on Mathematical Physics.
6. 29/05/2017-31/05/2017, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, International Workshop Maths from the body.