Curriculum Vitae

Current position

2024- Research Fellow (RTD-A), Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)

Previous position

2022-2024 PostDoc (Assegnista di ricerca), Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)

Project name: Scattered linearized polynomials and related geometries and MRD codes

Supervisor: Professor Corrado Zanella

Education

2019-2023  PhD in Mathematics and Informatics, Università del Salento (Italy)

Thesis: On Geometry and Combinatorics of Finite Classical Polar Spaces

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ELCYZOqhzEhKp6_aHsyIRtW6Tdbi7W6W 

Supervisors: Professors Gábor Korchmáros, Antonio Cossidente

Optimum

2017-2019 Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Università degli Studi della Basilicata (Italy)

Master thesis: Varietà Hermitiane sopra campi finiti

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qJwHAq_fPxsJohS4K3z0KnKm3_De0cHl

Supervisors: Professors Gábor Korchmáros, Angelo Sonnino

110/110 cum laude

2014-2017 Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Università degli Studi della Basilicata (Italy)

Bachelor thesis: Classification of Closed Surfaces

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16EFqimVaalGpLVpai53vGelTHC7zLH7_

Supervisor: Professor Martin Funk

110/110 cum laude

September 2016-January 2017 Erasmus student, Szegedi Tudományegyetem (Hungary)

Abroad research periods

December 2021-January 2022,

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

September 2022,

Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Budapest (Hungary)

January 2025,

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

August 2025,

Institute of Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics at Brown University (USA)

March 2026,

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

May 2026,

Virginia Tech (USA)

Memberships 

Member of the association Combinatorics2016 since 2022

Member of the association De Componendis Cifris APS since 2023

Member of the research group GNSAGA-INdAM since 2024

Member of Unione Matematica Italiana (UMI) since 2025

Member of the UMI group “Crittografia e Codici” since 2025

Academic services

Referee for: Combinatorial Theory; IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; Designs, Codes and Cryptography; Computational and Applied Mathematics

Reivewer for: zbMATH; Mathematical Reviews 

Member of the scientific committee for the book series: L'Algebra e le sue applicazioni: tra classico e moderno. Aracne Editrice

Organized events 

Seminar cycles of the UMI group “Crittografia e Codici” (since 2025)

Projects and grants

Tensors over finite fields and their applications, 3000,00€ 

INdAM-GNSAGA Project 2024 – CUP E53C23001670001

Coordinator: Paolo Santonastaso

Linear Algebra methods in Combinatorics and Industrial Engineering: Coding Theory, Graphs and their interest in Assembly Line Problems, 17000,00€ 

Project SID Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei Sistemi Industriali of the Università degli Studi di Padova -  CUP C33C25001110005

Coordinator: Valentino Smaldore

Automorfismi di Strutture Geometriche Finite e codici lineari associati, 1200,00€ 

INdAM-GNSAGA Project 2026 – CUP E53C25002010001

Coordinator: Angela Aguglia

Grants and awards

2014: Italian Mathematical Olympiad, Honourable mention.

2024: NSUCRYPTO International Olympiad in Cryptography, team round, Honourable diploma.

2024: Contest 3 Anni in 3 Minuti – 3A3M, Accademia Pugliese delle Scienze, Certificate of merit. 

2025: Individual Travel Grant of 2526,55$ to take part in the Graduate Workshop on Linear Algebra over Finite Fields&Applications at The Institute of Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Brown University.

2026: Individual Travel Grant of 2476,32€  for incoming stay in Flanders from Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO).

Erdős number: 3

A note on parabolic and linear one-factorizations of the complete graph Kp+1,

Gy. Kiss, G. Korchmáros, F. Romaniello, V. Smaldore, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ITAT'24: Information technologies-Applications and Theory, September 20-22, 2024, Drienica Čergovské vrchy, Slovakia, Volume 3792, pp. 136-142.

One-factorizations of complete graphs with a doubly transitive automorphism group,

P. J. Cameron, G. Korchmáros, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 1993, 25(1), pp. 1-6.

On the number of sets of integers with various properties,

P. J. Cameron, P. Erdős, In R. Mollin (Ed.), Number Theory: Proceedings of the First Conference of the Canadian Number Theory Association held at the Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, April 17-27, 1988, Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 1990, pp. 61-80.