Research Lines 2026-27

Research Lines 2026-27

TitleProfessor(s)
Representation, meaning, and nature of mathematical objects in learning and teacher education.
Requirements: Knowledge of mathematics at the university level, basic knowledge of the foundations of mathematics and/or of elementary mathematics from an advanced standpoint, and mathematics education.
Asenova Miglena
Inverse boundary value problems for partial differential equations: uniqueness, stability issues and reconstruction algorithms based on artificial intelligence techniques.
Requirements: Good knowledge of functional analysis and the theory of weak solutions for partial differential equations and systems. Good knowledge of basic numerical analysis and computer programming.
Aspri Andrea
Cavaterra Cecilia
Causin Paola
Biomathematics and Biostatistics – research line connected with: – Project FAITH – Fighting Against Injustice Through Humanities (strategic project of UniMI) – Project Modeling the heart across the scales: from cardiac cells to the whole organ” PRIN 2017, 2019-2022, PI A. Quarteroni (PoliMI) – Project MICROCARD – “Numerical modeling of cardiac electrophysiology at the cellular scale”, EuroHPC2020, 2021-2024, PI M. Potse (Univ. Bordeaux) – Collaborations with researchers of biomedical areas on: * Survival analysis for oncological patients * Planning of ideotypes of cereal plants to resist to climate changes * Mathematical and numerical modelling of cardiac electromechanical activity – Collaborations with industrial partners * Mathematical and computational models for Diffuse Optimal Tomography
Requirements: Probability, Mathematical Statistics. Partial differential equations, analytical and numerical aspects. Differential Modelling
Aspri Andrea
Causin Paola
Cavaterra Cecilia
Micheletti Alessandra
Scacchi Simone
KAM and normal form methods for modulation equations and for the deduction of effective equations (non relativistic limit, equations for wave packets, many body equations in classical and quantum mechanics). PRIN project “Hamiltonian and Dispersive PDEs”
Requirements: Elementary properties of Hamiltonian systems and partial differential equations
Bambusi Dario Paolo
Mathematical methods in quantum many body theory: emergent properties in Fermi gases (related to the ERC Starting Grant 2021 “FermiMath”)
Requirements: Basic knowledge of functional analysis (Hilbert space theory, unbounded operators)
Benedikter Niels Patriz
Bosonization in dimensions 1+1 and 3+1 for interacting fermionic systems in scaling limits, ground state energy (related to the ERC Starting Grant 2021 “FermiMath”)
Requirements: Basic knowledge of functional analysis (Hilbert space theory, unbounded operators)
Benedikter Niels Patriz
Semiclassical limits in quantum mechanics: quantitative analysis via Bogolioubov theory and normal forms (related to ERC Starting Grant 2021 “FermiMath” and ERC Starting Grant 2021 “HamDyWWa“)
Requirements: Basic knowledges of quantum mechanics, perturbation theory, partial differential equations and functional analysis
Benedikter Niels Patriz
Montalto Riccardo
Homotopical methods in arithmetic geometry
Requirements: Commutative algebra, scheme theory and some background in homotopica/homological algebra
Binda Federico
Vezzani Alberto
Rigid geometry, logarithmic geometry and perfectoid spaces
Requirements: Number theory, algebraic geometry, commutative algebra and homological algebra
Binda Federico
Vezzani Alberto
Mathematics learning environments in secondary school and integration of digital technologies for teaching
Requirements: Knowledge of mathematics at university level relevant for teaching in upper secondary school. Elements of mathematics teaching
Branchetti Laura
Interdisciplinarity in the initial training of mathematics teachers
Requirements: Knowledge of mathematics and physics or computer science at university level relevant for teaching in upper secondary school. Didactic elements of mathematics or physics or computer science
Branchetti Laura
Problems of learning and task design in the school-university transition
Requirements: Knowledge of mathematics at university level relevant for teaching in upper secondary school. Elements of mathematics teaching
Branchetti Laura
Algebraic Geometry: projective models, automorphism groups and moduli spaces of Hyperkähler manifolds, irreducible symplectic varieties and Enriques varieties.
Requirements: Good knowledge of algebraic geometry ad of complex geometry
Camere Chiara
Stochastic optimal control, backward stochastic differential equations and control of McKean-Vlasov systems.
Requirements: Stochastic processes and stochastic calculus
Campi Luciano
Cosso Andrea
Fuhrman Marco Alessandro
Stochastic differential games and mean field games with applications
Requirements: Stochastic processes and stochastic calculus
Campi Luciano
Spectral analysis of PDEs on manifolds
Requirements: Basic understanding of PDEs, functional analysis and differential geometry
Capoferri Matteo
Spectral problems in the homogenization of PDEs with random coefficients
Requirements: Basic understanding of PDEs, functional analysis and probability
Capoferri Matteo
Optimal Transport in Lorentzian manifolds. Structure of Lorentzian length spaces and synthetic curvature bounds
Requirements: Basic knowledge of optimal transport and of differential geometry
Cavalletti Fabio
Mathematical modelling in Cultural Heritage
Requirements: Good knowledge of basic mathematical analysis. Elements of real and functional analysis.
Cavaterra Cecilia
Bonetti Elena
Evolution systems of partial differential equations and applications.
Requirements: Good knowledge of basic mathematical analysis. Elements of real and functional analysis.
Cavaterra Cecilia
Bonetti Elena
Inverse problems for systems of partial differential equations: identification of parameters, inclusions and inhomogeneities.
Requirements: Good knowledge of basic mathematical analysis. Elements of real and functional analysis.
Cavaterra Cecilia
Aspri Andrea
Geometric properties of solutions to partial differential equation
Requirements: Knowledge of the basics of analysis and geometry, with emphasis in partial differential equations and basics of functional analysis
Ciraolo Giulio
Regularity for solutions to elliptic PDEs
Requirements: Knowledge of the basics of analysis and geometry, with emphasis in partial differential equations and basics of functional analysis
Ciraolo Giulio
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations on Wasserstein spaces or function spaces
Requirements: Stochastic processes and stochastic calculus
Cosso Andrea
Reinforcement learning in continuous time
Requirements: Stochastic processes and stochastic calculus
Cosso Andrea
Foundational problems in Financial Mathematics: Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing with cooperating agents; martingale optimal transport; time consistency in the theory of preferences.
Requirements: Good knowledge of functional analysis and of probability theory, in addition to the classical aspects of financial mathemtatics.
Frittelli Marco
Maggis Marco
Varieties with trivial canoncial bundle: quotients, fibrations and Hodge structures
Requirements: Basic notions in algebraic and complex geometry
Garbagnati Alice
Algebraic logic , categorical logic and duality theory, model-checking and decision procedures, non standard analysis and Ramsey theory
Requirements: Good mathematical background, together with knowledge of fundamental mathematical logic results and techniques
Ghilardi Silvio
Marra Vincenzo
Luperi Baglini Lorenzo
Reggio Luca
Pasquali Fabio
Mathematical analysis of low-energy properties of quantum systems: homogeneous and non-homogeneous Fermi gases
Requirements: Basic knowledge of functional analysis and quantum mechanics
Giacomelli Emanuela Laura
Analysis of effective models in superconductivity: Ginzburg-Landau theory and BCS theory
Requirements: Basic knowledge of PDEs and functional analysis
Giacomelli Emanuela Laura
Classification of semi-discrete Hamiltonian systems
Requirements: Basic knowledge of Hamiltonian mechanics in finite dimensions, differential and Riemannian geometry, projective geometry
Gubbiotti Giorgio
Integrable systems in N dimensions and generalisations
Requirements: Basic knowledge of Hamiltonian mechanics in finite dimensions, differential and Riemannian geometry, projective geometry
Gubbiotti Giorgio
Geometry, dynamics, and symmetries of Bertini-Moody-Manin involutions
Requirements: Basic knowledge of algebraic and complex geometry
Gubbiotti Giorgio
Classification on study of discrete-time systems admitting coalgebra symmetry
Requirements: Basic knowledge of Lie algebras and dynamical systems
Gubbiotti Giorgio
Complexity and growth of birational maps of projective spaces in dimension higher than 2
Requirements: Basic knowledge of algebraic and complex geometry
Gubbiotti Giorgio
Algebraic geometry, derived categories, birational geometry. Part of the project Progetto PRIN 2020: Curves, Ricci flat varieties and their Interactions
Requirements: Scheme theory, Riemann surfaces, homological algebra
Lombardi Luigi
Isogeometric analsysis and virtual element methods; numerical methods for partial differential equations. Project involved: PRIN 2020, Advanced polyhedral discretisations of heterogeneous PDEs for multiphysics problems
Requirements: Numerical methods for partial differential equations
Lovadina Carlo
Scacchi Simone
Existence, non-existence and rigidity results for submanifolds with prescribed curvature in Riemannian and Lorentzian ambient spaces.
Requirements: Riemannian Geometry and PDE’s
Mari Luciano
Categorical Algebra
Requirements: Basic knowledge of Category Theory, Universal and Homological Algebra
Mantovani Sandra
Montoli Andrea
Computational geometry and topology for machine learning – research related with two industrial projects, with Dompé Farmaceutici, on problems of drug design, and with EDP Cnet on problems of segmentation of LiDAR images.A35:C35
Requirements: Real and functional analysis; topology; Statistics; neural networks
Micheletti Alessandra
Probabilistic and Statistical Methods for Forensic Anthropological Identification. The interdisciplinary research is caried out in collaboration with the Labanof (Laboratorio di Antropologia e Odontologia Forense – Sezione di Medicina Legale) in UNIMI. The research line is within the project FAITH – Fighting Against Injustice Through Humanities (strategic project of UNIMI) .
Requirements: Mathematical statistics and probability theory
Micheletti Alessandra
Morale Daniela
Ugolini Stefania
Space-time stochastic processes, Stochastic Geometry and statistical shape analysis: point processes, random sets, random measures – research related with the morphological study of the skeleton of sea urchins for the planning of innovative bioinspired materials. In collaboration with the group of zoologists of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy
Requirements: Measure theory; Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Micheletti Alessandra
Villa Elena
Analytic Number Theory, with a special focus on explicit bounds and applications to algorithms computing algebraic invariants
Requirements: Good knowledge of bases of Number theory, bot in analytic and algebraic flavours.
Molteni Giuseppe
Nonlinear waves in fluid mechanics and dispersive equations via quasi-linear Kam and normal form methods. ERC project: Hamiltonian Dynamics, Normal Forms and Water Waves
Requirements: Basic knowledges of evolution PDEs, perturbation theory, Fourier and functional analysis
Montalto Riccardo
Stability of solitons and periodic and quasi-periodic waves for integrable and quasi-integrable Partial Differential equations – ERC project: Hamiltonian Dynamics, Normal Forms and Water Waves
Requirements: Basic knowledges of evolution PDEs, integrable systems, perturbation theory, Fourier and functional analysis
Montalto Riccardo
Normal form methods for singular perturbation problems – ERC project: Hamiltonian Dynamics, Normal Forms and Water Waves
Requirements: Basic knowledges of evolution PDEs, perturbation theory, Fourier and functional analysis
Montalto Riccardo
Statistical and stochastic analysis and calibration in modelling the degradation phenomenon in cultural heritages. SEED-UNIMI project and PON project on Green themes. The research is carried on in collaboration with the University of Pisa and University of Karlstad
Requirements: Statistics, stochastic processes and stochastic calculus
Morale Daniela
Ugolini Stefania
Limit behaviour of reaction diffusion partial differential equations with stochastic dynamical boundary condition. Randomness in front formation. Possible applications to the modelling of degradation phenomenon in cultural heritages. The research is carried on in collaboration with the University of Pisa, the University of Pavia and the Oslo University.
Requirements: Stochastic processes and stochastic calculus
Morale Daniela
Ugolini Stefania
Analysis of stochastic equations and interacting particles systems. Propagation to chaos: convergence problems from the nano to macroscale. Possible applicaion to the modelling of degradation phenomenon in cultural heritages. . The research is carried on in collaboration with the University of Pisa, University of Pavia , Oslo Univeristy and University of Karlstad.
Requirements: Stochastic processes and stochastic calculus
Morale Daniela
Ugolini Stefania
Motivic homotopy theory, motivic cohomology, motives, K-theory
Requirements: Algebraic geometry and topology, homotopical algebra, infinity categories
Oestvaer Paul Arne
Harmonic Analysis, Complex Analysis
Requirements: Basic knowledge of real, complex and functional analysis
Calzi Mattia
Peloso Marco Maria
Stability conditions on triangulated categories and the geometry of moduli spaces
Requirements: Solid background in complex algebraic geometry
Pertusi Laura
Differential Geometry and Global Analysis
Requirements: Riemannian Geometry and PDE’s
M. Rigoli
Mastrolia Paolo
Mari Luciano
p-adic methods in arithmetic
Requirements: Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra
Seveso Marco Adamo
Venerucci Rodolfo
Rational points on elliptic curves
Requirements: Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra
Seveso Marco Adamo
Venerucci Rodolfo
Algebraic Geometry and Homological Algebra: derived, triangulated and dg categories in algebraic geometry
Requirements: Solid background in algebraic geometry
Stellari Paolo
Geometric Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory and regularity of solutions to geometric variational problems (within project FIS 2 “Singularities in Geometric Analysis: Minimal Surfaces and Mean Curvature Flows (SiGmA)”)
Requirements: Solid background in Mathematical Analysis and Measure Theory. Good knowledge of the main techniques in elliptic PDE theory and Calculus of Variations. Knowledge of Riemannian Geometry. Geometric intuition.
Stuvard Salvatore
Fine properties and regularity of weak solutions to Mean Curvature Flows (within project FIS 2 “Singularities in Geometric Analysis: Minimal Surfaces and Mean Curvature Flows (SiGmA)”)
Requirements: Solid background in Mathematical Analysis and Measure Theory. Good knowledge of the main techniques in parabolic PDE theory. Knowledge of Riemannian Geometry.
Stuvard Salvatore
Birational geometry of algebraic foliations and their moduli spaces
Requirements: Foundations of algebraic geometry and/or theory of holomorphic foliations. It may be beneficial to have at least a rudimentary knowledge of the Minimal Model Program and of moduli theory
Svaldi Roberto
Tasin Luca
Boundedness problems in algebraic geometry
Requirements: Foundations of algebraic geometry, particularly of Fano and/or Calabi–Yau varieties. It may be beneficial to have at least a rudimentary knowledge of the Minimal Model Program,
Svaldi Roberto
Tasin Luca
Geometry of the moduli spaces of curves and higher dimensional varieties (of general type, Calabi-Yau or Fano
Requirements: Foundations of algebraic geometry and basic knowledge on moduli theory
Svaldi Roberto
Tasin Luca
Qualitative properties of nonlinear elliptic pdes and systems with critical variational growth. Sharp embedding inequalities for Sobolev type spaces, extremal functions and related phenomena.
Requirements: Basic background in real analysis and functional analysis. Good knowledge of the main techniques in elliptic PDE theory and in variational methods.
Tarsi Cristina
Stochastic methods in quantum mechanics. The main research line is the stochastic description of the time-dependent Bose-Einstein condensation phenomenon. The research is carried on in collaboration with the University of Bonn, the University of Pavia and the University of Wuppertal.
Requirements: Stochastic processes and stochastic calculus
Ugolini Stefania
Study of invariance and symmetry properties of stochastic dynamical systems, generalizing the classical theory of S. Lie. The research is carried on in collaboration with the University of Bonn and the University of Pavia.
Requirements: Stochastic processes and stochastic calculus
Ugolini Stefania
Galerkin methods for partial differential equations. Project involved: PRIN 2020, Advanced polyhedral discretisations of heterogeneous PDEs for multiphysics problems
Requirements: Theory and practice of Finite Element Methods; fundamentals of Numerical Linear Algebra
Veeser Andreas
Lovadina Carlo