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Positions

Professor for discrete mathematics;
SUPSI - University of applied arts and sciences of Southern Switzerland, since Spring 2021
Visiting fellow; University of Pisa, Italy, Spring 2021
SNSF-Professor; University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Fall 2014 - Spring 2021
Akademischer Rat; University of Bremen, Germany, 2010 - 2014
Visiting assistant professor ; SUNY Binghamton, NY, USA; January 2008 - August 2010.
Postdoctoral fellow at MSRI ; Berkeley, CA, USA. August 2007 - December 2007.
Postdoc (funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation); University of Pisa, Italy. October 2006 - July 2007.
Teaching assistant ; ETH Zurich, Switzerland. July 2003 - September 2006.

Awards, distinctions, certificates

Italian qualification as full professor (ASN prima fascia, Professore Ordinario) , November 2020
ISA Fellow , Iistituto di Studi Avanzati, university of Bologna, Fall 2019

Education

Certificate of advanced studies for university teaching (CAS Hochschuldidaktik),
PH Zurich, September 2021
''Habilitation'' in Mathematics

Thesis: Combinatorial Geometries in Algebra and Topology
University of Bremen, Germany, July 2011.

Ph.D. in Mathematics

Thesis:Combinatorics and topology of arrangement covers and of nested set complexes.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. Summer 2006.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Feichtner

Diploma in Mathematics (with distinction)

Thesis: On generalizing oriented matroids to a complex setting.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. Spring 2003.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Feichtner

Federal high school degree of literary type

Collegio Papio, Ascona, Switzerland. Summer 1998.

Publications

See the dedicated page.

Teaching

See the dedicated page.

Talks

See the dedicated page.

Music projects

Composing, researching, arranging and managing for the project Chilometro zero: (not only) historical performing of traditional (in part forgotten) dances. (2017).
Scoring and recording of the soundtrack of Moving Forest (2010).
Scoring and recording of the soundtrack of Endsieg (2008, joint with A. Broggini).
Composing and recording of the suite I strii da Püs (2006).
Scoring and recording of the soundtrack of via Tantardini 7 (2003).

Miscellanea

Member of the organizational staff of the vacation camp for handicapped persons of the foundation Vita Serena (1999-2010).