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Postdoctoral Researcher (Assegnista di Ricerca)
Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, Italy
Email(s): vasiliki.liontou[at]unibo.it
Office: Studio Assegnisti di Primo Piano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Piazza di Porta San Donato 5
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Trajectory
Trajectory
Fall 2023, Semester Postdoc in ICERM, Brown University under the program "Math + Neuroscience: Strengthening the Interplay Between Theory and Mathematics".
Ph.D from the Department of Mathematics at University of Toronto in August 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Matilde Marcolli and Prof. Boris Khesin.
January 2022 & February-March 2023, Visiting Student Researcher, The Division of Physics,Mathematics and Astronomy of California Institute of Technology.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Bologna, mentored by Prof. Giovanna Citti and Prof. Nicola Arcozzi.
My research interests are:
contact and symplectic geometry
time-frequency analysis
geometric modeling in neuroscience
Latest News
Latest News
Preprint: Curvature Sensitive Cells in the Modular Structures of The Visual Cortex (with Giovanna Citti), arXiv:2603.19425 (March 2026)
MSCA Seal of Excellence for the proposal " Unified Geometric and Signal-Analytic Models of Vision: From Curvature and Motion to Perceptual Unit " (February 2026)
Honorable Mention in the category Marvelous Presentation GSI 2025 : Geometry of Cells Sensible to Curvature and Their Receptive Profiles (October 2025)
Publications and Preprints
Publications and Preprints
G. Citti, V. Liontou, Curvature Sensitive Cells in the Modular Structures of The Visual Cortex. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.19425 (2026). [arXiv]
V. Liontou, Geometry of Cells Sensible to Curvature and Their Receptive Profiles. International Conference on Geometric Science of Information. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. [journal], [arXiv]
V. Liontou, M. Marcolli, Gabor frames and higher dimensional boundaries in signal analysis on manifolds, 2023 ( Submitted ) [arXiv]
V.Liontou, M.Marcolli, Gabor frames from contact geometry in models of the primary visual cortex, Mathematical Neuroscience and Applications 3, 2023 [journal][arxiv]
V. Liontou, V. Nestoridis, Jordan domains with a rectifiable arc in their boundary, Ann. Math. Québec 45, 2021 [journal][arXiv]
V. Liontou,V. Nestoridis, One sided conformal collars and the reflection principle, 2016 [arXiv]
Selected Awards and Honors
Canadian Mathematical Society Graduate Scholarship, 2022
Martin Shubik Graduate Award In Mathematics , 2021
Connaught International Scholarship for Doctoral Students, 2017-2020
Department Of Mathematics Graduate Program Award, 2018-2022
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