Employment
- From August 2023 : Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
- September 2022 – July 2023 : Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
- March 2020 – August 2022: Research Associate in Mathematical Analysis, Cardiff University, UK
Education
- Sept 2016 – June 2020: PhD in Pure Mathematics, University College London, UK
Thesis: Microlocal analysis of global hyperbolic propagators on manifolds without boundary (Supervisor: Prof Dmitri Vassiliev; Examiners: Prof Ari Laptev and Prof Alex Sobolev) - 2014 – 2016: MSc in Theoretical Physics, University of Pavia, Italy
- 2011 – 2014: BSc in Physics, University of Pavia, Italy
- 2011 – 2017: University diploma, Class of Sciences and Technologies, Institute for advanced study IUSS, Pavia, Italy
- 2011 – 2016: Fellow, Almo Collegio Borromeo, Pavia, Italy
Grants and research funding
- Six-month programme on Geometric Spectral Theory and applications, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (Co-applicant, with F. Cakoni, A. Hassannezhad, M. Levitin, I. Polterovich, Z. Rudnick, Jan-Jun 2026)
- ICMS Research-in-Groups project, £7k, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh (co-I, with S. Murro and F. Bambozzi, 2024)
- LMS Research Grant (Scheme 9), £500, London Mathematical Society (Principal Investigator, 2024)
- Learning & Research Support Fund Grant, £3k, Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust (PI, 2023)
- ICMS Conference Grant, £24k, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh (PI, 2023)
- EPSRC Fellowship, ~£400k (PI – Personal Award, 2023-2026)
- INI Network Support for the Mathematical Sciences, £25k, Isaac Newton Institute (PI/Lead Applicant, 2023-2025)
- Heilbronn/EPSRC Small Grant, £2k (Principal Investigator, 2022-2023)
- Junior Visiting Position (2-year research fellowship), €66,548, De Giorgi Centre, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (2022-2024) [Declined to take up a permanent post.]
- LMS Research Grant (Scheme 4), £600, London Mathematical Society (Principal Investigator, 2021)
- Clay Mathematics Institute, $7.5k conference grant, jointly with C. Garetto and D. Vassiliev (2020)
- LMS Research Grant (Scheme 4), £600, London Mathematical Society (Principal Investigator, 2020)
- LMS Research Grant (Scheme 1), £6000, London Mathematical Society, jointly with C. Garetto and D. Vassiliev (2019)
Awards
- Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Postgraduate Research Dean’s Commendation, “For the outstanding performance in the PhD in Mathematics“, UCL (2021)
- MAPS Faculty Teaching Award, UCL (2019)
- Davenport Prize for Pure Mathematics, UCL (2018)
- Grazioli Prize, Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere (2017)
Scholarships
- Archibald Richardson Scholarship for Pure Mathematics, UCL (2019)
- Sir George Jessel Scholarship, UCL (2018)
- Springer Fellowship, Canadian Mathematical Society (2018)
- 4-year PhD Scholarship, UCL (2016-2020)
- IUSS Scholarship, Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia (2011-2016)
Service
- Chair of the Organising Committee, UK Spectral Theory Network (2023-2025, funded by INI)
- Referee for Inventiones Mathematicae, Journal of Differential Equations, Pure and Applied Analysis, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, Annales Henri Poincare’, Letters in Mathematical Physics, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Differential Geometry and its Applications
- Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College
- Organiser of the Analysis Seminar (2020-2022 Cardiff, 2023-to date Heriot-Watt)
Organisation of conferences and workshops
- Six-month programme on Geometric Spectral Theory and applications, January-June 2026, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (Programme Organiser, with F. Cakoni, A. Hassannezhad, M. Levitin, I. Polterovich, Z. Rudnick)
- Workshop on Spectral Theory, September 2024, Edinburgh (with S. Boegli, J.-C. Cuenin, K. Gittins)
- Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications, April 2024, UCL (with D. Vassiliev)
- Workshop “Microlocal Analysis and PDEs: advances and perspectives”, February 2024, Edinburgh
- Workshop on Spectral Theory, September 2023, Bristol (with A. Hassannezhad, M. Karpukhin, J. Lagace’)
- Workshop on Microlocal Analysis and PDEs, July 2022, UCL (with C. Garetto and D. Vassiliev)
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