Andrea Merlo
Born in Valdobbiadene (TV, Italy), 01/08/1992.
Education and Positions
- Ikerbasque research fellow, 2024-present. Tenure Track at Universidad del País Vasco.
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship at Universidad del País Vasco, 2022-2024.
Supervisor: Mihalis Mourgoglou. - Post-doc at Université de Fribourg, 2022.
Supervisor: Enrico Le Donne. - Post-doc at Université Paris-Saclay, 2020-2022.
Supervisor: Guy David. - PhD in Mathematics at Scuola Normale Superiore, cum Laude, 2016-2020. Dissertation: "Geometry of 1-codimensional measures in Heisenberg groups".
Supervisors: Giovanni Alberti, Roberto Monti. - Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori at University of Padua, Italy. 100/100 cum Laude, 2011-2017.
Dissertation: "Geometry of uniform measures in the Heisenberg group". Supervisor: Roberto Monti. - MSc in Mathematics at University of Padua, Italy. 110/110 cum Laude, 2014-2016. Dissertation: "Non-differentiability sets of typical Lipschitz functions".
Supervisors: Roberto Monti, David Preiss. - Erasmus Program at University of Warwick, 2015-2016.
- BSc in Mathematics at University of Padua, Italy. 110/110 cum Laude, 2011-2014. Dissertation: "Struttura di insiemi di misura nulla".
Supervisor: Roberto Monti.
Teaching
- Teaching assistant to the course Analysis 3 at the University of Pisa, Winter semester 2018-2019.
- Tutor for the 107th orientation course of the Scuola Normale Superiore, held in Rome, July 8-13, 2019.
- Tutor for the course of Analysis II at Université de Fribourg, Spring semester 2021-2022.
Selected Talks
- Geometry of uniform measures in the Heisenberg group, XXVIII Convegno nazionale di calcolo delle variazioni, Levico Terme, February 12-16, 2018.
- Geometry of uniform measures in Heisenberg groups, A sub-Riemannian day in Padova, Padova, September 14, 2018.
- Geometry of 1-codimensional measures in Heisenberg groups, Seminar at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, February 25, 2019.
- Some extensions of the Frobenius Theorem, Part I, Some topics of Geometric Analysis and Geometric Measure Theory, Pisa, April 16-17, 2019.
- The Marstrand-Mattila rectifiability criterion in Carnot groups, Workshop on Geometric Measure Theory, Alba di Canazei, June 26-29, 2019.
- Preiss's rectifiability theorem in the first Heisenberg group, Seminar at University of Warwick, online, March 4, 2021.
- Preiss's rectifiability theorem in the first Heisenberg group, Jyväskylä Geometric Analysis Seminar, online, March 22, 2021.
- The Marstrand-Mattila rectifiability criterion in Carnot groups, Geometric Measure Theory and applications, Cortona, August 30-September 3, 2021.
- Endpoint Fourier restriction and unrectifiability, Seminar in Bilbao Analysis and PDEs, online, October 14, 2021.
- The density problem in the parabolic space, Interactions between Geometric measure theory, Singular integrals, and PDE, Bonn, 13-19 March 2022.
- On the density problem in Heisenberg groups, First UMI meeting of Ph.D. students, Padova, 26-27 May 2022.
- On the converse of Pansu's Theorem, Geometric measure theory and analysis on metric spaces, Warwick, 8-10 August 2022.
- On the converse of Pansu's Theorem, Seminar at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, May 2023.
- Carnot rectifiability and Alberti representations, Geometric Measure Theory in Bressanone, 29 May-2 June 2023.
- Carnot rectifiability and Alberti representations, Nordic congress of mathematicians, Aalborg, 2-7 July 2023.
- On the converse of Pansu's Theorem, Frontiers in Sub-Riemannian Geometry, 25-29 November 2023, CIRM, Marseille.
- On the converse of Pansu's Theorem, OxPDE Lunchtime Seminar in Oxford, 15 May 2023.
Organization of Scientific Meetings
- Co-Organizer, International Conference on Harmonic Analysis, PDEs, and Geometric Measure Theory, Bilbao, 12-16 June 2023.
Grants and Awards
- 2024, Reserve List: ERC STG grant.
- 2022-2024, Grant. Marie Skłodowska Curie Action, European Union’s research and innovation programme Horizon 2022. Grant agreement number 101065346.
- 2023, Prize. Premio Gioacchino Iapichino, for a young mathematician author of a work, published or unpublished, in the field of mathematical Analysis, of the "Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei".
- 2023, Prize. Premio Indam-Umi-Simai, for the best PhD thesis in mathematics discussed in an Italian university in the previous 3 years.
- 2022, Prize. Premio Guido Stampacchia relative to the theme "Calculus of Variations", of the "Accademia di Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche della Società Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti" in Naples.