Current position: Full Professor in Mathematical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Degrees
March 22, 1990: Bachelor degree in Physics (Laurea in Fisica) at the University of Milan. Dissertation on "Nonlinear dynamical systems and classical electrodynamics". Advisor: Prof. Luigi Galgani
January 24, 1996: PhD degree in Mathematics (Dottorato in Matematica) at the University of Milan. Dissertation on "Existence of solutions of differential equation of variational type". Advisor: Prof. Bernhard Ruf
Non academic job
February 1995 - March 1996 Financial analyst at SIGE Consulenza SpA (IMI group).
Job description: Statistical analysis of stock markets. Creation and managing of databases of financial data. Modeling for low risk portfolios.
Postdoctoral positions
March 1996 - November 1996 at the University of Stockholm with a CNR scholarship.
November 1996 - June 1997 at the University of Milan
Previous permanent positions
July 1997 - October 2002: Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) in Mathematical Analysis at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy.
November 2002 - December 2004: Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) in Mathematical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano.
January 2005 - January 2015 : Associate Professor in Mathematical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano.
Temporary positions and visits
March 1999 - June 1999: Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Dynamical Systems and Numerical Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology.
March 2000: One week visit at the Center for Dynamical Systems and Numerical Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology (K. Mischaikow).
February 2001: One week visit at the Department of Mathematics of the Indiana University (P. Zgliczynski).
January 2002: One week visit at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Stockholm (A. Szulkin).
March - April 2003: One month visit at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Texas at Austin (H. Koch), at the Center for Dynamical Systems and Numerical Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology (K. Mischaikow) and at the Control and Dynamical Systems of the California Institute of Technology (J. Marsden).
April 2003, February 2007, May 2009, April 2013: Visits (7-14 days) at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Texas at Austin (H. Koch).
Teaching experience
1997-2002: courses in Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria.
1999: one course in Linear Algebra and one course in Differential Equations at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
2002-today: courses in Mathematical Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Optimization, Mathematical Methods for Engineering, Computer laboratory at the Politecnico di Milano
Invited speaker at:
Dynamics, topology and computations, Bedlewo, Poland, June 4-10, 2006
Lattice Models, University of Bath, June 30 - July 2, 2008
International workshop on verified computations and related topics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, March 7-10, 2009
PDE and Potential Theory, KTH (Stockholm) November 18, 2009
Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, July 12-14, 2011
Rigorous Computations in Dynamics, Uppsala University, October 17-19, 2011
Dynamics, topology and computations, Bedlewo, Poland, June 15-20, 2015
Computational Proofs for Dynamics in PDEs, Leiden, The Nederland, June 6-10, 2016
Rigorous Computational Dynamics in Infinite Dimensions, CRM, Université de Montréal, April 3-6, 2019
Conference organized
INDAM Meeting "Theoretical and computational methods in nonlinear differential equations" in Bertinoro, September 13-18, 2009
Collaboration with the industry
2008-2010 Altran. Building a model and writing a software to compute the thermodynamics of multiphase hydrocarbons flowing in pipelines
2011-2018 ENI. Computer simulations of multiphase flows in pipelines, using the softwares Matlab and OpenFoam.
PhD and post-doc students
Monica Gamba (PhD, graduated in 2011, financed by Altran)
Marco Pischedda (post-doc, financed by Altran)
Matteo Pischiutta (post-doc, financed by ENI)
Giovanni Paolinelli (PhD, graduated in 2019)
Marco Ferrari (post-doc, financed by ENI)
Computer experience
OS: Linux, MacOS
Programming languages: Ada2012
Software packages: Matlab, Mathematica
Work experience
Applications of Mathematics and Computer Science to many different environments: Financial Analysis, Thermodynamics of hydrocarbons, Dynamics of fluids, Dynamical Systems, Structural Mechanics