Vita
Vita
Education
- Degree in physics (laurea), Università degli Studi di Milano, 1991
- Ph. D. in theoretical physics, Università degli Studi di Milano, 1995
Positions
- Harvard University: Post-doc at the Physics Department, 1995-1997
- Milan University: Post-doc at the Mathematics Department, 1997-1998
- Zurich University: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics, 1998-2003
- Zurich University: Full Professor at the Institute of Mathematics, 2003-present
- Zurich University: Deputy Director of the Institute of Mathematics, August 2013-July 2015
- Zurich University: Director of the Institute of Mathematics, August 2015-July 2017
Honors
- ICM invited speaker (Section Mathematical Physics), Madrid 2006. Proceedings paper
Long Term Scientific Stays
- Nantes University, June 1998
- Harvard University, September-December 2001
- IHES, March-May 2005
- University of California, Berkeley, mid-May–mid-June, 2012
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) grants:
- Member of the international Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn from March 2017–December 2025.
Organization of Conferences
- Quantization in algebra and geometry, FIM, Zurich, January 6-9, 2003 (with G. Felder)
- Groupoids and Stacks in Physics and Geometry, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, June 29-July 5, 2003 (with P. Xu)
- Mathematical Aspects of String Theory, Centro Stefano Franscini on Monte Verità (Ascona, Switzerland), July 18-23, 2004 (with A. Alekseev, G. Felder and J. Fröhlich)
- Random Matrices and Other Random Objects, FIM, Zurich, May 17-21, 2005 (with G. Felder and T. Kappeler)
- Higher structures in geometry and physics, IHP, Paris, January 15-19, 2007 (with P. Xu)
- Special Semester on Poisson Geometry and Momentum Maps, Bernoulli Center, Lausanne, July 1 - December 31, 2008 (with A. Alekseev):
-   Poisson School 2008, Bernoulli Center, Lausanne, July 1-4, 2008 (with A. Alekseev)
-   Poisson Conference 2008, Bernoulli Center, Lausanne, July 7-11, 2008 (with A. Alekseev and T. Ratiu)
-   Higher Structure 2008, Bernoulli Center, Lausanne, November 3-7, 2008 (with A. Alekseev and P. Xu)
- Higher Structure 2009, Zurich University, November 16-20, 2009 (with A. Alekseev, C. Arias Abad and P. Xu)
- Noncommutative Geometry and Higher Structures, Università Sapienza di Roma, August 31 - September 4, 2015
- Poisson 2016, Zurich, July 4-8, 2016
- A Gauge Summer with BV: Online, June 24 and 26, 2020
- A Gauge Summer with BV, Scalea, Italy, September 6–10, 2021
- Mathematics from a Cultural Perspective, Collegium Helveticum / University of Zurich, Switzerland, May 3, 2023
- GAP 2023—Homotopy Algebras and Higher Structures, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, May 22–26, 2023
- Categorical Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory, SwissMAP Research Station, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, August 27–September 1, 2023
Books
- Déformation, Quantification, Théorie de Lie (Panoramas et Synthèses, n°20, 2005), with B. Keller, C. Torossian and A. Bruguières
- Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics (Birkhäuser, 2011), with A. Giaquinto and P. Xu (eds.)