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.
My CV, updated on 23/07/2026: English - Italian
My e-mail: gm2070[at]hw[dot]ac[dot]uk
Where to find me next:
On the 17th-18th September I will be at the conference
Automorphism groups in Bonn.
Five useless facts about me
- I am co-organising the online seminar series Towards a Genuinely Global Mathematics Community, intertwining stories and ideas from underrepresented mathematicians (sign up for the mailing list here).
- I performed in the play Mathopoly: an academic dystopia, a satyrical take on the power dynamics in mathematics (FULL VIDEO).
- I'm supporting several charity organisations, including Amref, Amnesty International, and Save the Children.
- I made a visual novel videogame for my friends' Bachelor graduation (caveat: the game is in Italian and full of dull inside jokes).
- 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, second, and third, year of PhD.
