Agnese Barbensi

Hooke Research Fellow

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG

I am interested in applications of low-dimensional topology and knot theory to biology. In particular, my research area involves topics such as DNA topology and entanglement of biopolymers.

I passed my VIVA on 15/05/2020, and I received my Leave to Supplicate on 17/06/2020.
DPhil supervisors: Prof. Heather Harrington, Prof. Marc Lackenby and Prof. Dorothy Buck.

Dphil Thesis: Knot Theory and entanglement in biopolymers.

Publications and preprints

• F-distance of knotoids and protein structure
  A. Barbensi, D. Goundaroulis, 2019
  • arXiv
• Grid diagrams as tools to investigate knot spaces and topoisomerase-mediated simplification of DNA topology
  A. Barbensi, D. Celoria, H. A. Harrington, A. Stasiak, D. Buck, 2019
  • arXiv Science Advances
• Double branched cover of knotoids
  A. Barbensi, D. Buck, H. A. Harrington, M. Lackenby 2018
  • arXiv
  • To appear in Communications in Analysis and Geometry
• The Reidemeister graph is a complete knot invariant
  A. Barbensi, D. Celoria, 2017
  • arXiv Algebraic & Geometric Topology

Selected Slides and Posters

• Durham, LMS Symposium,   August '19  
• Three minutes thesis competition ,   November '18, Oxford, 2nd prize   (video)
• Santa Cruz ,   August '18
• Oaxaca ,   November '17   (video)
• Le Diableretes ,   September '17

Contacts & Resources

• Email barbensi ∝ maths ⋅ ox ⋅ ac ⋅ uk
• Scholar Agnese Barbensi
• GitHub repository (joint with D.Celoria) Agnese Barbensi

Last updated Jan. 2020