Short Vita

Education

• 2010    Ph.D. Mathematics
             UC Berkeley
             Advisor: Bernd Sturmfels


• 2006    Lic. Mathematics (equiv. M. Sc.)
             Universidad de Buenos Aires
             Advisor: Alicia Dickenstein

Positions

• 2022-...           Associate Professor (tenured), The Ohio State University (USA).
• 2018 Summer  CEMPI Visiting Professor (May 15 - June 15).. Laboratoire Paul Painlevé, Université Lille 1 (France).
• 2016 Fall         Visitor, Mayor Thematic Program: Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Canada).
• 2015-2022       Assistant Professor (tenure-track), The Ohio State University (USA).
• 2011-2015       NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University (USA). [On leave Jan 2012- July 2013]
• 2013 Fall         Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University (USA).
• 2012-2013       Postdoctoral Researcher, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Germany).
• 2011 Fall         Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University (USA).
• 2011 Spring     Postdoctoral Member, Algebraic geometry with a view towards applications, Institut Mittag-Leffler (Sweden).

Mentoring

MSc Students

• Aziz Burak Guelen (2020-2021)
• Charles Koenig (2018-2019)

Undergraduate Students

• Braeden Singleton (REU Project: Tropical interpolation). OHIO 5-OSU Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (May 22 -July 28, 2023), The Ohio State University.

Postdocs

• Alex Sutherland (2022-pres.), Ross Assistant Professor.
• Max Kutler (2021-pres.), Zassenhaus Assitant Professor.
• Ray D. Karpman (2016-2019). Current position: tenure-track at Otterbein University.

Honors and Awards

Fellowships

• 2012-2013    Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Germany).
                    Mentor: Annette Werner.
• 2011-2015    NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Columbia University (USA) (on leave 2012-2013).
                    Mentor: Andrei Okounkov.
• 2011            AXA Mittag-Leffler Institute postdoctoral fellow, Algebraic Geometry with a view towards applications.
• 2007-2009    Chancellor's Fellowship. UC Berkeley (USA).
• 2005-2006    Undergraduate Research Fellowship "Beca Estímulo." UBACYT Programación Científica 2004-2007. Proyecto X042- "Geometría Algebraica y Aplicaciones". Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Grants

• NSF RTG Grant DMS-2231565: RTG: Arithmetic, Combinatorics, and Topology of Algebraic Varieties (2023-2028), (Co-PI, joint with David Anders, Jennifer Park and Stefan Patrikis).
• MRI conference grant KOALA 2023: Workshop of the Kentucky ALgebra Alliance (March-July 2023) (joint with David Anderson and Eric Katz).
• Tropical degree-two del Pezzo surfaces and their 56 lines (August 16-20, 2021). Collaborate@ICERM Program, ICERM, Brown University, Providence, RI, US (joint with Amanda Knetch, Kalina Mincheva, Aleksandra Sobieska and Claudia Yun.)
• NSF Standard Grant DMS-1954163: Combinatorial and Tropical Degenerations of del Pezzo surfaces and their Moduli. (2020-2025), (PI).
• NSF Standard Grant DMS-1700194: Combinatorial and Tropical Degenerations of Classical Moduli Spaces (2017-2022), (PI).
• Enumerative geometry of real and tropical tangent planes (March 8-21, 2020). Research in Pairs program at MFO, Oberwolfach, Germany (joint with Yoav Len, Hannah Markwig and Yue Ren.)
• A tropical approach to Milnor fibers of rational surface singularities (July 17-26, 2017). Bernoulli Brainstorm scheme, Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli CIB, Lausanne, Switzerland (joint with Patrick Popescu-Pampu and Dmitry Stepanov).
• PEAK 2017 conference. DFG Conference Grant DFG HA 4383/7-1 (PI, joint with Christian Haase, Alex Küronya and Gregory Smith).
• Tropical Geometry and Singularities (Jan 27-Feb 7, 2014). Research in Pairs at CIRM, Marseille, France (joint with Patrick Popescu-Pampu and Dmitry Stepanov). Award Number 1173.
• MEGA 2013. NSF Conference Grant DMS-1303109 (associated personnel).
• PEAKs 2013 conference. DFG Conference Grant HA4383/6-1 (PI, joint with Christian Haase and Gregory Smith).
• Tropical geometry workshop at CIEM (2011). NSF Conference Grant DMS-1138935 (Co-PI, joint with Josephine Yu).
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship DMS-1103857 (2011-2015), (PI).

Prizes

• Competencia Matemática E. Paenza (math contest for teams of two members for several universities in Argentina and Uruguay): 2nd. Prize (2005), 4th Prize (2004), 5th Prize (2003, 2002).
• 5th Iberoamerican Mathematical Olympiad: Honor Prize.

Conferences and Symposia organized

• KOI Combinatorics Lectures II (with Kyle Binder, Eric Katz and Max Kutler), the second workshop of the Kentucky-Ohio-Indiana combinatorics group. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US (December 4, 2023).
• KOALA Workshop 2023 (with David Anderson and Eric Kataz), the first workshop of the Kentucky-Ohio ALgebra Alliance). The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US (May 9-10, 2023).
• OSU Graduate Advising Workshop 2019 (with David Penneys, Krystal Taylor and Daniel Thompson), a career development-style event is meant to be a venue for discussing best practices on advising. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US (June 1-2, 2019).
• Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Aspects of Tropical Geometry (with Yoav Len and Martin Ulirsch). AMS Spring 2018 Central Sectional Meeting, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US (March 16-18, 2018).
• PEAK 2017: Perspectives and Emerging Topics in Algebra and Konvexity (with Christian Haase, Alex Küronya and Greg Smith). Haus Bergkranz, Austria (Februrary 3-9, 2017).
• Three Minisymposia on Tropical Geometry (with Anders Jensen and Josephine Yu), SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Daejeon, Korea (August 3-7, 2015).
• BATMOBYLE: Bi-annual Algebraic and Tropical Meetings of Brown and YaLE (with Dan Abramovich, Asher Auel, Melody Chan, José González, Nathan Kaplan, Sam Payne and Nathan Pflueger) (Fall 2014-Fall 2018).
• BIRS Workshop on Specialization of Linear Series for Algebraic and Tropical Curves (14w5133) (with Matt Baker, Lucia Caporaso, Eric Katz and Sam Payne). Banff International Research Station, Canada (March 30 - April 4, 2014).
• Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry MEGA 2013, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany. Member of the local committee (June 3-7, 2013).
• PEAKs 2013: Perspectives and Emerging Topics in Algebra and Combinatorics (with Christian Haase and Greg Smith). Haus Bergkranz, Austria (March 17-24, 2013).
• Workshop on Tropical Geometry (with Erwan Brugallé, Eva-Maria Feichtner, Tomas Recio, Martin Sombra, Luis Felipe Tabera and Josephine Yu). CIEM, Castro Urdiales, Spain (December 12-16, 2011).

Seminars and colloquia organized

• Algebraic Geometry Seminar. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US (Fall 2015-present)
• Geometry, Combinatorics and Integrable Systems Seminar. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US (Fall 2016-present).
• Program Colloquium Series (with Nathan Ilten). Mayor Thematic Program on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, The Fields Insitute, Toronto, ON, Canada (Fall 2016).
• Departamental Colloquium Series (with Facundo Mémoli and Daniel Thompson). The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US (Fall 2016, Spring 2017).
• Seminar on Mirror Symmetry and Tropical Geometry (with Helge Ruddat). UC Berkeley, Fall 2010.

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