Alessandro Oneto

Associate professor

Department of Mathematics


Via Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo
tel. 0461 281555
alessandro.oneto[at]unitn [dot] it
Education
  • Ph.D. in Matematics, Stockholms U. (Sweden) 
    Thesis supervisor: Prof. Boris Shapiro; External supervisor: Prof. Enrico Carlini;
    Thesis title: "Waring-type problems for polynomials". Date of thesis defense: June 3rd, 2016.
     
  • M.Sc. in Mathematics, U. degli Studi di Genova (Italy); final grade: 110/110 cum laude.
    Final thesis supervisor: Prof. Maria Virginia Catalisano;
    Thesis title: "On the defectiveness of projective varieties". Date of thesis defense: July 26th, 2012.
     
  • Laurea Triennale in Matematica, U. degli Studi di Genova (Italy); final grade: 110/110 cum laude.
    Final thesis supervisor: Prof. Anthony Vito Geramita;
    Thesis title: "Problema di Waring per forme binarie". Date of thesis defense: July 21st, 2010.
Academic career and teaching activities

Complete info can be found on my personal webpage:
https://sites.google.com/view/alessandrooneto/home 

Professional positions

  • [04.2023 — current] Associate Professor, U. degli Studi di Trento, (Italy)
  • [04.2020 — 03.2023] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, U. degli Studi di Trento, (Italy)
  • [04.2019 — 03.2020] Postdoc, OvGU Magdeburg (Germany)
    Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Mentor: Prof. Thomas Kahle
  • [01.2018 — 03.2019] PostdocU. Politécnica de Catalunya (Spain)
    Barcelona Graduate School Junior Postdoc; Mentor: Prof. Marta Casanellas
  • [11.2016 — 12.2017] Postdoc, Inria Sophia Antipolis (France)
    Postdoctoral research (team AROMATH); Mentor: Prof. Bernard Mourrain
Research interests

My research interests are mostly in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. I like to study geometric models that have relations to problems coming from applied sciences as the study of tensor decompositions or algebraic statistical models. 

I am part of TensorDec Lab

Memberships in societies and scientific committees
  • UMI (Unione Matematica Italiana)
  • INdAM - GNSAGA (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica, Gruppo di Geometria e Algebra)
  • SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
Awards and honours

Grants

  • PI of project PRIN2022 “Applied Algebraic Geometry of Tensors” 
    Co-PI: Emanuele Ventura (Poli. Torino). Financed by MUR (Italy). 
  • Research Fellowship by Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany)
    24 months. Used at OVGU Magdeburg from 04.2019 to 03.2020. 
  • Research Fellowship of Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (Spain)
    18 months. Used at UPC Barcelona from 01.2018 to 03.2019. 

Habilitations

  • Scientific Habilitation to Full Professor
    section: MATH01/A2 (Algebra e Geometry). Since 08.2024
Other work

Graduate Students

  • Carlotta Vielmo, co-supervised with Luigi Amedeo Bianchi
    38th cycle. Theme: mathematics education and statistics education
  • Dario Antolini, co-supervisionato with Elisa Postinghel
    39th cycle. Theme: algebraic geometry and tropical geometry