education
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, IN (USA),
May 2004
M.S. in Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, IN (USA),
January 2001
M.S. (Laurea) in Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Genova
(Italy), July 1999
positions held
| 2012-present | Professor at the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) |
| 2009-12 |
Swiss National Science Foundation Professor at the University of Basel (Switzerland) |
| 2008-09 |
Lecturer at the University of Zuerich (Switzerland) |
| 2004-08 |
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zuerich (Switzerland) |
| 1999-2004
|
Graduate/Teaching
Assistant at the University
of Notre Dame (USA) |
visiting positions in research centers
| Sept.-Dec. 2018 |
ICERM,
Providence, RI (USA), semester program on Nonlinear
Algebra |
| Nov.-Dec. 2012 |
MSRI, Berkeley, CA (USA), scientific program on Commutative Algebra |
| Jan.-Feb. 2011 |
Mittag-Leffler
Institute, Stockholm (Sweden), semester program on Algebraic Geometry with a view towards applications |
| Sept.-Oct. 2006 |
Fields Institute, Toronto (Canada), thematic program in Cryptography |
| Aug.-Oct. 2005, Mar. 2006 |
Max Planck Institut fuer Mathematik - Bonn (Germany) |
awards and grants
* European Commission Horizon Europe Doctoral Network Grant
(MSCA-DN) "ENCODE", 2023-27 (Co-PI, with D. Augot, E. Byrne
(coordinator), A. Couvreur, C. Hollanti, F. Levy-dit-Vehel, A.
Ravagnani)
* Funding from BIRS (Banff International Research Station) for
a 5-day workshop “Algebraic
Methods in Coding Theory and Communication” in April 2022
(Co-PI, with M. Greferath,
H. Lopez Valdez, and F. Manganiello)
* Armasuisse grant on “Post quantum cryptography --
Multivariate cryptography”, 2021-22 (PI)
* 2018 RTG Lecture Series speaker at the University of Clemson
(three invited lectures)
* Invitation and financial support from the Institute for
Computational and Experimental Research
in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University (RI, USA) to
participate to the program
on “Nonlinear Algebra”, Fall 2018
* Armasuisse grant on “Multivariate cryptography”, 2016 (PI)
* Member of the MEGA Advisory Board since 2015
* CUSO grant funding the doctoral school “SM’ART”, Jan. 2016
(with L. Anderson and E. Delucchi)
* CUSO grant funding the doctoral school “Let’s matroid!”,
Mar. 2015 (with E. Delucchi and R. Jurrius)
* SNSF Grant no. 200021_150207 "Algebraic Aspects of Linear
Network Coding”, Jan. 2014-Dec. 2016 (PI)
* CUSO grant funding the doctoral school “Quadratic forms,
lattices and applications”, Mar. 2014
(with D. Jetchev, G. Mantilla, and H. Parlier)
* Featured on “AcademiaNet - Expert Database of Outstanding
Female Scientists and Scholars” since 2012
* Invitation from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
(Berkeley, CA) to participate to the program on "Commutative
Algebra", Fall 2012
* Representative of the Swiss node in the Management Committee
of the ICT COST Action IC1104 on "Random Network Coding and
Designs over GF(q)", 2012-16
* Financial support from the Swiss Academy of Sciences – SCNAT
for the organization of the conference "Trends in Coding
Theory"
* Grant from the Centro Stefano Franscini (ETH Zurich) to
organize a conference on "Trends in Coding Theory" on Oct. 28
- Nov. 2, 2012 (with J. Rosenthal and A. Shokrollahi)
* Invitation and financial support from the Mittag-Leffler
Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) to participate to the program on
"Algebraic Geometry with a view towards applications", Spring
2011
* Financial support for short term visitors from the
Mathematics Department of the University
of Kentucky awarded in 2010 and 2011
* SNSF Grant no. PP00P2_123393 "Gorenstein liaison: using
commutative algebra to study projective schemes", Sept.
2009-Dec. 2013 (PI)
* Recipient of the "Forschungskredit der Universität Zürich",
grant no. 57104101, Jan-Dec 2008 (PI)
* Member of the consortium “Azione integrata Italia-Spagna”
financed by MIUR (Italian Ministry
for University and Research) in 2007-09
* Invitation and financial support from the Fields Institute
(Toronto, Canada) to participate in the Fall 2006
Thematic Program in Cryptography
* Member of the "Vigoni project" (EU financed project for
cooperation between Italy and Germany) in 2005-06
* Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship offered for the
proposal "Algebraic and Cohomological aspects of Algebraic
Geometry", Individual Fellowship for 24 months (starting in
2005) (declined)
* Yearly stipend from the Max Planck Insitut fuer Mathematik -
Bonn offered for the period September 2005 - August 2006 (only
used for four months)
* Financial support from the Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute (Berkeley, CA) in connection with participation to 5
workshops in the framework of the thematic programs in
Commutative Algebra (2002/03) and Algebraic Geometry (2009)
* Several travel grants from different conference
organizational committees, from the Mathematics Department of
the University of Notre Dame, and through the Graduate Student
Union Travel Grant of the University of Notre Dame
* Graduate/Teaching Assistantship from the University of Notre
Dame, 2002-04
* Fellowship from the Istituto Nazionale di Alta
Matematica F.Severi (Italian National Institute for Higher
Mathematics F.Severi), 1999-2002
* M.S. in Mathematics, 100/100 cum Laude, July 1999
* Selected for the Italian Mathematics Olympiads (national
level competition), 1995
conference and seminar organization
* Scientific Committee of the Bienal Real Sociedad Matemática
Española RSME-2024,
Universidad Pública de Navarra, January 2024
* Scientific Committee of the CIMPA school Finite Geometry and
Coding Theory", IIT Hyderabad, November 2023
* Organizer of WICA II - Women in Commutative Algebra II,
Trento (Italy), October 2023
* Administrative and Scientific Coordinator of the CIMPA
school "Coding Theory and Its Applications", Mzuzu University,
Malawi, August 2023
* Scientific Committee of C2SI-2023 -- Codes, Cryptology and
Information Security,
Mohammed V University, Rabat (Morocco), May 2023
* Scientific and Organizing Committee of COGNAC’2023 --
Conference On alGebraic varieties
over fiNite fields and Algebraic geometry Codes, CIRM, Luminy
(France), February 2023
* Program Committee of the
First International Conference on Cryptography, Codes, and
Cyber Security -- I4CS, University of Casablanca (Morocco),
July 2022
* Chair of MEGA 2022 -- Effective Methods in Algebraic
Geometry, University of Cracow (Poland), June 2022
* “Algebraic Methods in Coding Theory and Communication” (with
M. Greferath, H. Lopez Valdez, F. Manganiello), Casa
Matematica Oaxaca (Mexico), April 2022
* Program Committee of the 12th Workshop of Coding and
Cryptography – WCC 2022, Rostock
(Germany), March 2022
* Program Committee of the SIAM Conference on Applied
Algebraic Geometry (AG21), Texas A&M University (TX, USA),
August 2021
* Executive Committee of MEGA 2021 -- Effective Methods in
Algebraic Geometry -- The Artic University of Norway (Norway),
June 2021
* “Algebraic Methods in Coding Theory and Communication” (with
M. Greferath, H. Lopez Valdez, F. Manganiello), Casa
Matematica Oaxaca (Mexico), October 2020 -- cancelled due to
the COVID-19 pandemic
* Program Committee of the 8th Code-Based Cryptography
Workshop, Paris (France), April 2020 -- cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
* Program Committee of
Algebra, Codes and Cryptology (A2C),
Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (Senegal), December 2019
* “Algebra meets combinatorics in Neuchatel” (with A. Fink and
I. Martino), University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), July 2019
* Local Organizer of
the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry 2019 (SIAM
AG 19), University of Bern (Switzerland), July 2019
* Program Committee of MEGA 2019 --
Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry -- Universidad
Complutense de Madrid (Spain), June 2019
* Program Committee of WCC 2019 -- the 11th Workshop on Coding
and Cryptography -- Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer (France), April 2019
* “Nonlinear algebra in applications” (with A. Dickenstein, J.
Hauenstein, Y.-H. He, and C. Uhler) Institute for
Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics
(ICERM), Brown University (RI, USA), November 2018
* Executive Committee of MEGA 2017 -- Effective Methods in
Algebraic Geometry -- Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis
(France), June 2017
* Intercity Seminar (with E. Delucchi and J. Draisma),
Universities of Bern, Fribourg, and Neuchatel, since 2016
* Colloquium Series at the University of Neuchatel, 2013-16
* Seminar in Coding Theory and Cryptography (with J.
Rosenthal), Universities of Neuchatel and Zurich, since 2013
* CUSO doctoral school “SM’ART” (with E. Delucchi and L.
Anderson), les Diablerets (Switzerland), January 2016
* “Commutative Algebra Meeting” in honor of M. E. Rossi (with
A. Conca and E. De Negri), University of Genoa (Italy),
October 2015
* CUSO doctoral school “Let’s matroid!” (with E. Delucchi and
R. Jurrius), University of Neuchatel, March 2015
* “DIMACS Workshop on The Mathematics of Post-Quantum
Cryptography” (with N. Boston, T. Lange, and J. Rosenthal),
DIMACS, New Brunswick, NJ (USA), January 2015
* CUSO doctoral school “Quadratic forms, lattices, and
applications” (with D. Jetchev, G. Mantilla-Soler, and H.
Parlier), les Diablerets (Switzerland), March 2014
* Minisymposia on “Coding Theory and Geometry” and
“Cryptography and Number Theory” (with I. Duursma and J.
Rosenthal) at the “SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic
Geometry 2013”, Colorado State University (USA), August 2013
* “Trends in Coding Theory” (with J. Rosenthal and A.
Shokrollahi), Monte Verita' Conference Center, Ascona
(Switzerland), October 2012
* CUSO “Workshop Algebra and Geometry” (with J. Blanc, H.
Kraft, and F. Kutzschebauch), University of Bern
(Switzerland), September 2012
* Perlen Seminar (with G. Crippa), University of Basel
(Switzerland), Spring 2012
* Perlen Seminar (with J. Blanc), University of Basel
(Switzerland), Fall 2010
* Seminar in Coding Theory and Cryptography (with J.
Rosenthal), Universities of Basel and Zurich (Switzerland),
2009-12
* Seminar in Coding Theory and Cryptography, University of
Zurich (Switzerland), 2006-09
* Program Committee of SAC 2008 -- Workshop on Selected Areas
in Cryptography --
Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick (Canada),
August 2008
* Program Committee of WAIFI 2008 -- Workshop on the
Arithmetic of Finite Fields -- Siena (Italy), July 2008
