Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Giordano Cotti
- Date of birth
- 1990/12/26
Citation names
- Cotti, Giordano
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- F610-E378-2B6E
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9171-2569
Email addresses
- giordano.cotti@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
- gcotti@fc.ul.pt (Professional)
- gcotti.uni@gmail.com (Personal)
Addresses
- Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://giordanocotti.wordpress.com (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Pure Mathematics
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| French | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Portuguese | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2014/10/01 - 2017/09/19
Concluded
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Geometry and Mathematical Physics (Doctor of Philosophy)
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy
"Geometry and Analytic Theory of Semisimple Coalescent Frobenius Structures - An Isomonodromic
approach to Quantum Cohomology and Helix Structures in Derived Categories" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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110/110 cum laude |
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2012/10/01 - 2014/07/16
Concluded
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Matemathics (Laurea Magistrale)
Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy "Isomonodromic Approach to Quantum Cohomology of Grassmannians - An analytical asymptotic
point of view on Dubrovin's and Gamma-conjectures" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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110/110 cum laude |
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2009/10/01 - 2012/07/18
Concluded
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Matematica (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
"Il quinto problema di Hilbert" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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110/110 cum laude |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/01/06 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Grupo de Física Matemática, Portugal | ||
| 2020/11/01 - 2024/12 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Grupo de Física Matemática, Portugal | ||
| 2020/09 - 2020/12 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Germany |
| Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Germany | ||
| 2019/11/01 - 2020/10/31 | Postdoc (Research) | University of Birmingham School of Mathematics, United Kingdom |
| University of Birmingham School of Mathematics, United Kingdom | ||
| 2017/10/01 - 2019/10/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Germany |
| Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Germany |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026/01 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/03/01 - 2025/02/28 | GEometry of Non-generic Isomonodromic DEformations (GENIDE)
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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Concluded
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| 2020/11/01 - 2023 | Irregular connections on algebraic curves and Quantum Field Theory
PTDC/MAT-PUR/ 30234/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2019/11/01 - 2020/10/31 | Cluster algebras, Teichmüller theory and Macdonald polynomials
EP/P021913/2
Post-doc
University of Birmingham School of Mathematics, United Kingdom
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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| Preprint |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2026/03 | I was invited to give an online talk in the Schubert Seminars series, organized by Anders Buch, Rebecca Goldin, Leonardo Mihalcea, and Richárd Rimányi. | Schubert Seminars
Rutgers University (United States)
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| 2026/01 | Enumerative geometry of partial flag varieties, and prime numbers | Workshop on "Integral Stokes structures and applications"
university of Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany)
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| 2025/10 | Enumerative geometry of partial flag varieties, and prime numbers | Workshop in Algebraic Geometry and Physics 2025 "Moduli spaces in (super)geometry
and mathematical physics" -- A conference in honor of the 70th birthday of Ugo Bruzzo
Funding institution: SISSA (João Pessoa, Brazil)
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| 2025/09 | Gromov–Witten theory, isomonodromic deformations, and integral transforms | Workshop in Algebraic Geometry and Physics 2025 "Geometry and Physics of Higgs moduli"
ICMS-Sofia, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
SISSA, AUBG, IMSA (Razlog, Bulgaria)
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| 2025/06 | Gromov–Witten theory, isomonodromic deformations, and integral transforms | Conference on Integrable Systems and Related Areas
IBS Center for Geometry and Physics (Pohang, South Korea)
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| 2024/12 | Introduction to quantum cohomology and Frobenius manifolds | invited speaker for the Oberwolfach Seminar Exponential Motives organized by J. Fresán
and P. Jossen
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute
for Mathematics) (Oberwolfach, Germany)
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| 2024/07 | Gromov-Witten theory, integral transforms, special functions | European Congress of Mathematics ECM24-satellite conference Integrability and Moduli
– A conference in honor of Leon Takhtajan
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/06 | Quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds, and derived categories: a friendly introduction | Lisbon Young researchers seminar
Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/01 | Gromov-Witten theory, integral transforms, and special functions | Geometry in Lisboa
Instituto Superior Te´cnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/11 | Enumerative geometry, quantum differential equations, and derived categories | Colóquio de Matemática
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/09 | Riemann-Hilbert problems: an introduction, and applications I delivered two lectures, in the occasion of the Summer School. | Summer School - TRIeste: Topological Recursion and Integrability
Università di Trieste (Trieste, Italy)
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| 2023/07 | Gromov-Witten theory, integral transforms, and special functions | Mirror Symmetry and differential equations
Galatasaray University (Istanbul, Turkey)
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| 2022/12 | Gromov-Witten theory, integral transforms, and special functions | 5th X-mas workshop
Università di Genova, SISSA (Genova, Italy)
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| 2022/11 | How to integrate quantum differential equations of varieties? | Seminario di Fisica Matematica
Università del Salento (Lecce, Italy)
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| 2022/10 | How to integrate quantum differential equations of varieties? | Online event “Shapes of thought: geometry, mathematical physics, and philosophy –
A conference in honor of Claudio Bartocci’s 60th birthday ”
Università di Genova, SISSA, UFF
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| 2022/09 | Quantum differential equations, Isomonodromic deformations, Derived categories | Seminar in Algebraic Geometry
Università di Padova (Padova, Italy)
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| 2022/07 | Borel–Lapace multitransform, and integral representations of solutions of qDE’s | Integrable systems, Frobenius manifolds and related topics
Institut Mathématique de Bourgogne (Dijon, France)
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| 2022/06 | Borel–Lapace multitransform, and integral representations of solutions of qDE’s | “Algebraic Analysis and Geometry” Seminar
Università di Padova (Padova, Italy)
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| 2022/05 | Borel–Lapace multitransform, and integral representations of solutions of qDE’s | Excursions in Integrability
(Trieste, Italy)
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| 2022/04 | I was invited as a plenary speaker, and I was asked to deliver two lectures. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the conference has been postponed on 2022/04. | D-Modules: Applications to Algebraic Geometry, Arithmetic and Mirror Symmetry
Centre Internationale de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM) (Luminy, France)
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| 2022/04 | Quantum cohomology, isomonodromic deformations, and derived categories | Web-seminar on Painleve´ Equations and related topics
Univ. Rennes and Univ. Koebe (France)
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| 2021/10 | I delivered a talk with title "Borel-Laplace multi-transform, and integral representations of solutions of quantum differential equations" | Algebraic Geometry Semi- nar
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai, India)
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| 2021/04 | I was invited as a plenary speaker. I delivered a talk with title "Quantum differential equations, isomonodromic deformations, and derived categories" | Web conference on Frobenius Manifolds
Sultan Qaboos University (Oman), Tokyo University (Japan)
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| 2021/04 | I delivered a talk with title "Quantum differential equations, qKZ difference equations, and helices" | Seminars in Topological Quantum Field Theory
Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2021/03 | Seminar (in French) with title "Équations différentielles quantiques, déformations isomonodromiques et catégories dérivées" | Seminaire de Géométrie et Physique Mathématique
LABORATOIRE ANGEVIN DE RECHERCHE EN MATHÉMATIQUES (Angers, France)
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| 2021/02 | Seminar with title "Quantum differential equations, isomonodromic deformations, and derived categories" | Seminaire de Géométrie et Physique Mathématique
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne (Dijon, France)
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| 2020/12 | Seminar "Quantum differential equations, isomonodromic deformations, and derived categories" | CMAF-CIO Geometry Webinar
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2020/11 | Seminar "Borel-Laplace multi-transform, and integral representations of solutions of qDEs" | Seminar in Geometry and Mathematical Physics
University of Hefei (Hefei, China)
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| 2020/10 | Seminar "Borel-Laplace multi-transform, and integral representations of solutions of quantum differential equations" | Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá (D.C.), Colombia)
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| 2020/10 | Seminar "Quantum differential equations, isomonodromic deformations, and derived categories" | Mathematical Physics seminar
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste, Italy)
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| 2020/09 | Seminar "Borel-Laplace multi-transform, and integral representations of solutions of quantum differential equations" | Manin Seminar in Algebra, Geometry and Physics
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2020/06 | Seminar "Quantum differential equations and helices" | Oberseminar Representation Theory
Universität Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2020/05 | Seminar "Quantum differential equations and helices" | Geometry seminar
University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
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| 2020/02 | I was invited as a plenary speaker. Talk with title "Quantum differential equations and helices" | Monodromy and Hypergeometric Functions
Galatasary University (Istanbul , Turkey)
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| 2019/06 | I was invited as a plenary speaker. I delivered a talk with title "Algebraic geometric aspects of Isomonodromic Deformations: Helix structures in Quantum Cohomology of Fano Varieties" | XXXVIII Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics
Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku (Bialowieza, Poland)
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| 2019/01 | Seminar "Helix structures, quantum cohomology, (a,ß)-Laplace multi- transform" | seminars on Geometry and Mathe- matical Physics
University of Birmingham School of Mathematics (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
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| 2018/12 | I delivered a talk with title "Helix structures, quantum cohomology, (a, ß)-Laplace multi-transform" | 4-th Genoa X-mas Workshop
Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy)
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| 2018/06 | I was invited as a plenary speaker. I delivered a talk with title "Algebraic geometric aspects of Isomonodromic Deformations: Helix structures in Quantum Cohomology of Fano Varieties" | Formal and Analytic Solutions of Partial Differential Equations
Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)
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| 2018/06 | I was invited as a plenary speaker to an event organized by the Royal Society (UK). I delivered the talk with title "Helix structures in quantum cohomology of Grassmannians" | Quantum integrability and quantum Schubert calculus
Kavli Royal Society International Center (United Kingdom)
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| 2018/04 | Seminar "Monodromy local moduli of semisimple coalescent Frobenius structures" | Oberseminar zur Algebra und Zahlentheorie
Universität Augsbrug (Augsburg, Germany)
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| 2018/03 | I was invited as a plenary speaker. I delivered a talk with title "Monodromy local moduli of semisimple coalescent Frobenius structures" | Geometry and Integrable Systems
University of Glasgow (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
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| 2017/12 | Seminar "Monodromy local moduli for Frobenius coalescent structures" | Manin Seminar on Algebra, Geometry and Physics
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2017/11 | Oberseminar | Max-Planck-Institut Oberseminar
Max Planck Institut für Mathematik (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2017/06 | I delivered a talk with title "Almost periodicity of Stokes matrices of Quantum Cohomology of Grassmannians" | Geometry of Integrable Systems
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste, Italy)
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| 2017/02 | I was invited as a plenary speaker. I delivered a lecture with title "Monodromy local moduli for semisimple Frobenius coalescent structures -- Gamma conjectures and Quantum Cohomology, Algebraic and Analytic aspects" | Asymptotic and computational aspects of complex differential equations
Scuola Normale Superiore - Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio de Giorgi (Pisa, Italy)
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| 2016/12 | I was invited as a plenary speaker. I delivered a talk with title "Monodromy local moduli for Frobenius coalescent structures and Dubrovin's conjecture" | 3-rd Genoa X-mas Workshop
Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/01 - Current | Organizer of the Lisbon Young Researchers Seminars. (2025/01)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| 2025/01 - Current | Together with Davide Masoero and Giulio Ruzza I'm organizer of the Integrability,
Geometry, Asymptotics Seminar. This is a regular event — typically held twice a month
— dedicated to researchers and students interested in the analytic and geometric aspects
of integrable systems. It offers a forum to present and discuss recent developments
and results in the field. (2025/05)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| 2024/09/16 - 2024/09/21 | Organizer of the conference "An ODE to geometry", in the context of the project GENIDE
(2022.03702.PTDC) (2024/09/16 - 2024/09/21)
Conference
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Universidade de Lisboa Grupo de Física Matemática, Portugal |
| 2024/07 - 2024/07 | Local organizer of the COST Action Training School "Contemporary trends in integrable
systems", for the project CaLISTA (Ca21209) (2024/07/01 - 2024/07/05)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Universidade de Lisboa Grupo de Física Matemática, Portugal Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy |
| 2024/02 - 2024/02 | Organizer of the "LUSO-BRAZILIAN MEETING IN THEORETICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS"
(https://sites.google.com/view/lbtmp24) (2024/02/26 - 2024/03/01)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Grupo de Física Matemática, Portugal Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil |
| 2022 - 2024 | Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa - Departamento de Matemática, Lisboa
(PT). Seminar series: Geometry and Physics seminars. Starting from December 2022 I
am an organizer – joint with C.Florentino, D.Masoero and S. Santos– of the new series
of Seminars in Geometry and Physics. The seminars, in presence, will represent an
occasion to foster foster an atmosphere that stimulates interest and a interactions
among the members of the Department.
(2022 - 2024)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2021/06 - 2021/06 | Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa - Grupo de Física Matemática, Lisboa
(PT). Seminar series: Geometry and Physics seminars. Two seminars by Sean Lawton,
guest of the Group of Mathematical Physics. The seminars, partially in presence, have
been also made available in streaming on YouTube, at the channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaU-Nqh5w0uNB_9mOCQcFmQ
(2021/06 - 2021/06)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2020/11/01 - 2020/11/15 | Mini-workshop ''Derived categories and quantum cohomology of partial flag varieties'',
organizers: P. Belmans, G. Cotti, A. Fonarev, C. Pech, M. Smirnov. Mini-Workshop in
the context of the “Hausdorff Junior Trimester Program : New trends in Representation
Theory” (2020/11/01 - 2020/11/15)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Germany |
| 2016/01/07 - 2016/01/21 | Local organizer of the Workshop ''Geometric and Analytic Theory of Hamiltonian Systems
in Finite and Infinite Dimensions'' - PRIN 2016 (Italian National Coordinator: Prof.
Dubrovin) (2016/01/18 - 2016/01/21)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/10 - Current | Since October 2025, I serve as a member of the Executive Committee of the Grupo de
Física Matemática at IST.
Member
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Grupo de Física Matemática - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| 2025/01 - Current | Member of Selection Committee for Research Fellowships: I participated in several selection committees for student and postdoc research fellowships, evaluating applications and selecting candidates based on academic merit and research potential. | Grupo de Física Matemática - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| 2024 - Current | I am a guest editor for a volume of the SISSA Springer Series, which will feature the lecture notes from the four courses of the COST Action Training School “Contemporary Trends in Integrable Systems - Lisboa, 1-5 July 2024”, of which I have been local organizer. The volume is currently under construction. | |
| 2022 - 2024 | Member of Selection Committee for Research Fellowships: I participated in several selection committees for student and postdoc research fellowships, evaluating applications and selecting candidates based on academic merit and research potential. Internal FCiências.ID numbers and types of the calls: Research Scholarships for master students (bolsas de investigação para estudantes de maestrado): Concursos #3953, #3974, #3975, #3991, #4221, #4222, #4224; Post-doctoral research fellowships: Concursos #4360, #4318, #4411. | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2015/10/01 - 2017/09/30 | Support activity for the digital space management for the Area of Mathematics:
My task included the assignment of offices to all the students of Mathematics, to
all the visitors for both long/short terms, and the management of the online database
of all spaces owned by the Mathematics Area.
Member
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Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy |
| 2015/10/01 - 2017/09/30 | Member of the Council Area of Mathematics: Students’ representative for the PhD program
in Geometry and Mathematical Physics. Such a position also includes active participation
to the monthly reunion of the Council of the SISSA Area of Mathematics.
Member
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Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/01 - Current | I was asked to referee several papers for more than 10 journals (Geometry and Topology, Compositio Mathematica, Duke Journal of Mathematics, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, Letters in Mathematical Physics, Mathematische Zeitschrift, Nonlinearity, Portugaliae Mathematica, SIGMA, . . . .) |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/02 - 2026/06 | Spring semester | Advanced Topics in Geometry. Ph.D. course on "Frobenius manifolds and mirror symmetry" (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2024/02 - 2024/06 | Spring semester | Advanced Topics in Geometry (Mestrado) | Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2022/01 - 2022/01 | Fall semester | Short course: "Moduli spaces of curves: algebraic and analytic aspects" | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2021/02 - 2021/02 | Fall Semester | Short course "Frobenius manifolds, irregular singularities, and isomonodromic deformations" (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2015/10/01 - 2016/01/31 | Fall semester | Geometry and Linear Algebra - Exercise sessions (Laurea) | Università degli Studi di Trieste Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura, Italy |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/05 - Current | Co-supervisor of a MSc thesis project at FCUL | Rodrigo Luis |
| 2025/04 - Current | PhD Supervisor | Luca Ferrero |
| 2024/02 - Current | Post-Doc supervision | Jonathan Gabriel Bradley-Thrush |
| 2024/02 - Current | Post-Doc supervision | José Julián Barragán Amado |
| 2023/09 - 2025/02 | Supervisor of a Master thesis in Mathematics at FCUL | Tomás de Oliveira Santos Inácio |
| 2022/10 - 2024/12 | Supervision of 5 “Introduction to Research” for mater students | Tomás Inácio (x3); Helena Duarte; Carlos Mendes |
| 2022/11 - 2023/09 | Post-Doc supervision | Xavier Blot |
| 2019/11/01 - 2020/04/01 | Msc Thesis Co-advisor | Vlad Roman |
Distinctions
Award
| 2018 | Lutman Prize
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy
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Other distinction
| 2024 | Programma “Rita Levi Montalcini” - Italy. (DECLINED)
Governo Italiano Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Universita e della Ricerca, Italy
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| 2021 | FCT Individual Grant CEECIND (Junior researcher) -- 1st ranked for Mathematics (2nd ranked for Mathematics and Computer Sciences) |
