Vita

• CV (pdf version)

• Short resume (pdf version)

• Publications
  

• Publications (pdf version)

• My Personal Web Page

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

• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

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:

• Financed Projects

• 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)

• Geometry of strings and fields, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI), August 26-October 18, 2013 (with.F. Bonechi, S. Gukov, M. Rocek, D. Seminara)

• 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.)