I am a third-year PhD student at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), under the supervision of Alessandro Sisto, and a proud member of the Heriot-Watt GGT group. Previously, I was awarded a Studentship at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, and I completed a Master's degree at the University of Pisa.
Where to find me next:
On the 4th November I will give a talk at the
International Young Seminar on
Bounded Cohomology and Simplicial Volume.
Five useless facts about me
- I performed in the play Mathopoly: an academic dystopia (FULL VIDEO).
- I made a visual novel videogame for my friends' Bachelor graduation (caveat: the game is in Italian and full of dull inside jokes).
- I'm supporting several charity organisations, including Amref, Amnesty International, and Save the Children.
- As a child, I uploaded some Minecraft gameplays on Youtube.
- I work in Geometric Group Theory, and I especially study Hierarchically Hyperbolic Spaces, which are those spaces sharing the same "hyperbolic features" as Mapping Class Groups of surfaces (for an overview on HHS see e.g. this survey by my supervisor). My PhD project investigates which algebraic, geometric, and algorithmic properties of a HHG can be detected by looking at its quotients, and conversely which features of a HHG are enjoyed by its quotients. If you want to have a more in-depth overview, you can see the final reports of my first and second years of PhD.
