Papers/Preprints

Preprints:

• (with S. Schröer) Iskovskih's theorem for regular surfaces over imperfect fields Arxiv (2025);
• (with F. Bernasconi, J. Schneider and S. Zimmermann) Explicit Sarkisov program for regular surfaces over arbitrary fields and applications Arxiv (2024);
• (with E. Floris and S. Zimmermann) Maximal subgroups in the Cremona group Arxiv (2023), to appear in Compositio Mathematica;
• (with L. Gruson and N. Perrin) Rational curves on V₅ and rational simple connectedness Arxiv (2019), revised version (2024).

In Preparation:

• (with F. Mangolte) A note on the real locus of Fano threefolds.
• (with L. Gruson and N. Perrin) Rational simple connecredness and Fano threefolds.

Research publications:

• (with J. Blanc and R. Terpereau) Automorphisms of P¹-bundles over rational surfaces, Épijournal de Géométrie Algébrique (2023);
• (with J. Blanc and R. Terpereau) Connected algebraic groups acting on 3-dimensional Mori fibrations, IMRN (2022);
• (with S. Schröer) The maximal unipotent quotient, unusual torsion in Fano threefolds, and exceptional Enriques surfaces, Épijournal de Géométrie Algébrique (2020);
• (with S. Schröer) Del Pezzo surfaces and Mori fibre spaces in positive characteristic, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. (2020);
• (with C. Casagrande and G. Codogni) The blow-up of P⁴ at 8 points and its Fano model, via vector bundles on a degree 1 del Pezzo surface, Revista Matemática Complutense (2019);
• (with G. Codogni, R. Svaldi and L. Tasin) A note on the fibres of Mori fibre spaces, European Journal of Mathematics (2018);
• (with G. Codogni, R. Svaldi and L. Tasin) Fano varieties in Mori fibre spaces, IMRN (2016);
• (with G. Di Cerbo) Effective Matsusaka's Theorem for surfaces in characteristic p, Algebra & Number Theory (2015).

Other Scientific Publications:

• Rational simple connectedness and the quintic Del Pezzo threefold, ZAG Handbook of Modern Algebraic Geometry, edited by I. Cheltsov and J. Martinez-Garcia (2025);
• Raconte-moi... un Chant de Cremona, Gazette de la SMF (2024);
• An introduction to rationally connected fibrations over curves and surfaces, Rendiconti Del Circolo Matematico Di Palermo, Special Issue: Fano varieties (2023);
• Rational simple connectedness and Fano threefolds, Proceedings of the Nottingham AG Seminar (2023).


• PhD Thesis (Imperial College London, 2015).

Videos

• Rational simple connectedness and Fano threefolds, talk at ZAG Algebraic Geometry Seminar (2021);
• Fano fibrations in positive characteristic, talk at GAGC 2018, CIRM, Luminy (2018);
• A PhD in mathematics - pure mathematics section at Imperial College London (2013).

Organised events and seminars

• Colloquium de l'IMB, Bordeaux, since Sep 2023;
• Journées de géométries complexes de la Fédération MARGAUx, Poitiers, 30 Jun - 2 Jul 2025;
• 14th swiss-french workshop in Algebraic Geometry, Charmey (CH), 13 - 17 Jan 2025;
• Fano varieties in Cetraro, 9-13 Sep 2024;
• Workshop FRACASSO 2024, 1-3 Jul 2024, IMB, Bordeaux;
• 13th swiss-french workshop in Algebraic Geometry, Charmey (CH), 29 Jan - 2 Feb 2024;
• Séminaire de Théorie des Nombres, IMB Bordeaux, Sep 2020 - Aug 2023;
• Workshop FRACASSO 2023, IMB, Bordeaux, 9-10 Mar 2023;
• 12th swiss-french workshop in Algebraic Geometry, Charmey (CH), 30 Jan - 3 Feb 2023;
• Rencontre Bordeaux-Poitiers de géométrie algébrique, Bordeaux, 13-14 Oct 2022;
• Rencontre Bordeaux-Poitiers de géométrie algébrique, Bordeaux, 7-8 Oct 2021;
• Geometry in Pairs, University of Roma Tre, 19-20 Dec 2019;
• Rencontre Feuilletages et K3, Poitiers, 9-10 Oct 2019;
• Workshop/Conference on Del Pezzo surfaces and Fano varieties, HHU Düsseldorf, 22-26 Jul 2019;
• Aeneas Christmas Conference, University of Roma Tre, 20-21 Dec 2018;
• Düsseldorf Research Seminar in Pure Mathematics, HHU, Nov 2016 - Jul 2018;
• Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory in Rome, University of Roma Tre, 18-19 Dec 2014;
• Traumatic Workshop: Birational Geometry and Fano Varieties, Imperial College London, 3-4 Apr 2014;
• Characteristic p methods in Algebraic Geometry (funded by LMS), Imperial College London, 2-5 Apr 2013;
• Junior Geometry Seminar, Imperial College London, Oct 2012 - May 2013.

Outreach and charity

• Pictures for the Indam workshop Moduli of K-stable varieties, Rome, Jul 2017;
• (with D. Martinelli) First Prize at the Mathematics Department Poster Competition with the poster Minimal model program: contract your bad curves!, Imperial College London, Mar 2014;
• (with A. Petracci) the Christmas Charity Card of the Geometry Group, appearing on the Official Website, Imperial College London, Dec 2014;
• (with A. Petracci) the Christmas Charity Calendar of the Geometry Group, Imperial College London, Dec 2013.