Students


Postdoctoral fellows

  • Dr. Marco Trevisiol. From 01.04.2022 to 31.03.2023. Code AR-A 37/2021. Department S.B.A.I., Sapienza.
  • Dr. Elena Pascucci. From 01.11.2024 to 31.10.2025. Code AR-B 24/2024. Department S.B.A.I., Sapienza.
  • Dr. Magdalena Boos, visiting S.B.A.I. from January to June 2019, funded by the Department of Mathematics of Bochum (GERMANY).

PhD students

  • Paola Malatacca. 42nd cycle of the PhD in Mathematical Models for Engineering, Electromagnetism and Nanosciences, Department S.B.A.I. She will start on 1 November 2026.
  • Javier De Loera Chavez. 40th cycle of the PhD in Mathematical Models for Engineering, Electromagnetism and Nanosciences, Department S.B.A.I. Start date: 01.11.2024. Thesis topic: Combinatorial aspects of cluster algebras.
  • Francesca Paganelli. 39th cycle of the PhD in Mathematical Models for Engineering, Electromagnetism and Nanosciences, Department S.B.A.I. and PhD in Mathematics of Paris-Cit'e under the supervision of David Hernandez. Start date: 01.11.2023. Thesis topic: Quantum cluster algebras.
  • Azzurra Ciliberti. 37th cycle of the PhD in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics G.~Castelnuovo. Start date: 01.11.2021. Thesis title: A categorification of cluster algebras of type $B$ and $C$ through symmetric quivers. Defence date: 06.12.2024. Committee: Ralf Schiffler (UConn, USA), Daniel Labardini-Fragoso (UNAM, MEXICO and Padua, ITALY), Salvatore Stella (L’Aquila, ITALY). The thesis received the ``Gustavo Mezzetti'' prize for the best PhD thesis in Mathematics from the University of Padua in 2025. Azzurra won a postdoctoral position at the University of Bochum (GERMANY) under the supervision of Karin Baur, from 01.01.2025 to 31.12.2028.
  • Marco Trevisiol. 34th cycle of the PhD in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics G.~Castelnuovo. Start date: 1 November 2018. Thesis title: Normality of closure of nilpotent conjugacy classes. Defence date: 09.03.2022. Committee: Claudio Procesi (Rome Sapienza, ITALY), Jerzy Weyman (Krakow, POLAND), Fabio Gavarini (Rome Tor Vergata, ITALY). Marco held a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship under my supervision but then, in 2023, left academia.
  • Kai Wehrmacher. Joint supervision between the PhD in Mathematics of the University of Aachen (GERMANY) and the PhD in Mathematical Models for Engineering, Electromagnetism and Nanosciences of the S.B.A.I. Department of Sapienza. In 2020 he left research without completing the PhD.
  • Yingjin Bi. PhD in Mathematics, Beijing Normal University (CHINA). I was Yingjin’s external supervisor; he spent two years visiting the S.B.A.I. Department from December 2022 to June 2022 under my supervision. Yingjin’s PhD thesis concerns quiver Grassmannians and Hecke algebras. He is now postdoctoral researcher at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University.

Master’s students

  • Francesco Filippo Falcone. Master’s student in Mathematics. Thesis title: The Laurent phenomenon in the generalized theory of cluster algebras. Discussion date: 20 March 2017. Department of Mathematics ``G.~Castelnuovo''. Sapienza.
  • Veronica De Blasio. Master’s student in Mathematics. Thesis title: The Perron-Frobenius theorem and some of its applications. Defence date: 22 January 2020. Department of Mathematics ``G.~Castelnuovo''. Sapienza.