Together with Dino Festi (Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II') and Riccardo Pengo (Università degli Studi di Messina), I am organizing a joint seminar among the University of Naples “Federico II”, the University of Messina, and the University of Bari 'Aldo Moro'. This initiative goes under the name NaMeBa, after the initials of the three cities.
The aim of the seminar is to explore Feynman integrals - the fundamental tool underlying the computation of amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory and its supersymmetric incarnations - from a geometric, and in particular algebro-geometric, perspective.
More information about the seminar is available on the dedicated website.
Together with my friends and collaborators Ingmar Saberi and Johannes Walcher, I am co-PI of the research grant 'Homological algebra of supersymmetry' (2023-2026), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for approximately 218.000€.
This grant followed an exploratory project (2022-2023) supported by the STRUCTURES Cluster of Excellence at the University of Heidelberg, with funding of about 108.000€.
I am particularly proud that the majority of these funds have been used to support PhD students and their mobility.
Fabian Hahner - PhD in Physics from the University of Heidelberg (2024) - now postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Steffen Schmidt - PhD in Mathematics from the University of Heidelberg (2025) - now postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.
Raphael Senghaas - PhD student at the University of Heidelberg.
The grant is currently under renewal with the DFG for a second three-year period. Since neither Ingmar Saberi nor I are any longer based at German institutions, by law we can no longer serve as co-PIs of the project - althought we will, in any case, both continue to collaborate on and contribute to it. In the meantime, we wish Johannes and Ondra the very best of luck with the success of the renewal of the grant!