Curriculum vitae
Personal information
Born May 10, 1961 in Rome, Italy.
Official address: Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei Sistemi Industriali, Università di Padova, Stradella S. Nicola 3, I-36100 Vicenza, Italy.
Education
1980-86, M.S. in Mathematics, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy; with 110/110 cum laude.
1986-87, Fellow of Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica, Rome, Italy.
1987-1991, Ph. D. in Mathematics, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
(Thesis: "Proprietà grafiche, topologiche e d'ordine di alcune varietà notevoli"), advisor Prof. Giuseppe Tallini.
One year of this (1987-88) was spent at the University of Hannover, Germany, as Research Fellow.
Academic employment
11/1990 - 10/1992 -- Assistant Professor of Geometry, University of Udine
Teaching Algebra and Geometry for students in Computer Science.
11/1992 - 9/2005 -- Associate Professor of Geometry, University of Padova
10/2005 - Present -- Full Professor of Geometry, University of Padova
Teaching Linear Algebra and Geometry,, Calculus, Probability for students in Engineering.
Research projects
1990-95 Co-operating on an international research project supported by N.A.T.O. (Universities of Rome "La Sapienza", Hannover, Udine, Padova).
1992-93 Co-operating on the international research project "Vigoni" between German and Italian universities (Universities of Rome "La Sapienza", Hannover, Udine, Padova).
1999-2001 Co-operating on the international research project "Universal Embeddings of Generalized Schubert Varieties" supported by the Italian and Austrian governments (Universities of Brescia "Sacro Cuore", Padova, Roma "La Sapienza", Vienna "TUW").
1997-2006 P.R.I.N. "Strutture geometriche, combinatoria e loro applicazioni" supported by M.I.U.R.
2010-2012 "Progetto di Ateneo" of Padua University.
2010-2012 P.R.I.N. 2008 "Strutture d'incidenza e combinatorie" (Responsible of a Local Unit).
2014-2017 P.R.I.N. 2012 "Strutture geometriche, combinatoria e loro applicazioni" (Responsible of a Local Unit).
From 4/2014 Responsible of a Local Unit of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica.
Other professional activities
9/1995 An organizer of the "XV congresso dell'Unione Matematica Italiana" held at the University of Padova.
9/1995 Invited speaker to the workshop "The Second International Workshop on Differential Geometry and its Applications" (Constanta).
9/2005 Organizer of the conference "Giornate di Geometria", Vicenza.
Was reviewer for Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society, and for Zentralblatt für Mathematik.
3/2011 An organizer of the conference "Giornata di Geometria", Vicenza.
2/2012 An organizer of the conference "Giornate di Geometria", Vicenza.
9/2013 An organizer of the “Workshop & Summer School on Finite Semifields”, Padova.
6/2018 Organizer and member of the Scientific Committee of the international conference "Combinatorics 2018", Arco-Trento (Italy).
Referee for several mathematical journals.
Co-operating in the organization of the Faculty of Engineering.
Co-ordinating the website combinatorics.it of the italian research group in combinatorics.
Memberships
Unione Matematica Italiana
Gruppo Nazionale per le Strutture Algebriche e Geometriche e loro Applicazioni dell'INdAM.
Areas of major interest
Main research areas:
51E20 Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces
51E21 Blocking sets, ovals, k-arcs
51E23 Spreads and packing problems
51A45 Incidence structures imbeddable into projective geometries
51D20 Combinatorial geometries
Others:
51H10 Topological linear incidence structures
51H20 Topological geometries on manifolds
51M35 Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations)
14M15 Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds
12K10 Semifields
94A62 Authentication and secret sharing