Cittadinanza italiana, sesso femminile, Firenze 1970
Love hiking in the Dolomites, Alpine skiing and road cycling.
March 2020 – ongoing Associate Professor in Mathematical Analysis, SSD Analisi Matematica (MAT/05) Università degli Studi Firenze, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica ”Ulisse Dini” (DIMAI)
November 2001 – February 2020 Ricercatore universitario, SSD Analisi Matematica (MAT/05) Università degli Studi Firenze
Mar - Oct 2001 Post-doc position (one year Assegno di Ricerca) Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata :"Giovanni Sansone", Università degli Studi di Firenze
May 2000 - Feb 2001 Post-doc position (one year INDAM Senior Scholarship) Dipartimento di Matematica ”Ulisse Dini”, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Nov 1994 – Oct 1998 PhD in Mathematics Dipartimento di Matematica ”Ulisse Dini”, Università degli Studi di Firenze The thesis “Semicontinuity for quasiconvex integrals of any order and implicit nonlinear systems” was defended in February 1999, research director Prof. Paolo Marcellini
Nov 1989 – Jun 1994 Four years single cycle degree in Mathematics Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, Università di Firenze Final mark 110 cum laude/110. Thesis title ”Modello per l’idratazione di una particella di silicato tricalcico”, advisor Prof. Mario Primicerio
Mother tongue Italian
Other languages English
Laboratoire LIS, Université de Toulon, France, 1st -13th Sep 2024 (Professeur visiteur pour l’année 2024)
Laboratoire LIS, Université de Toulon, France, 4th -15th Sep 2023 (Professeur visiteur pour l’année 2023)
Laboratoire LIS, Université de Toulon, France, 29th Aug -10th Sep 2022 (Professeur visiteur pour l’année 2022)
Laboratoire LIS, Université de Toulon, France, 8th -20th Sep 2019 (Professeur visiteur pour l’année 2019)
Laboratoire LIS, Université de Toulon, France, 16th Sep - 9th Oct 2018 (Professeur visiteur pour l’année 2018)
Laboratoire LIS, Université de Toulon, France, 1st -2nd Feb 2018
Equipe McTAO, INRIA-Sophya Antipolis, France, 29th -31st Jan 2018
Laboratoire LSIS, Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, France 3rd -23rd Sep 2017 (Professeur visiteur pour l’année 2019)
Laboratoire LSIS, Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, France, 18th -30th Sep 2016 (Professeur visiteur pour l’année 2016)
Laboratoire LSIS, Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, France, 17th -30th May 2015
Institut für Angewandte Mathematik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus, Germany, 11th -23rd May 2009
2000EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), 8th -12th May 2000
2016-17 Scientific label and partial financing by the "Università Italo Francese", for the conference ”Mathematical Control Theory with a special session in honor of Gianna Stefani”
2014-15GNAMPA Project ”Dinamiche nonlineari, sistemi Hamiltoniani e controllo ottimo” (Nonlinear dynamics, Hamiltonian systems and Optimal Control), 11th Mar 2014 - 10th Mar 2015
2001-02Università degli Studi di Firenze, Progetto Giovani Ricercatori 2001. ”Equazioni e sistemi differenziali di tipo implicito e applicazioni a problemi di elasticità non lineare” (Implicit differential equations and systems with applications to nonlinear elasticity), 1st Jan 2001 - 29th Mar 2002
2023-25 PRIN 2022. ’Optimal control problems: analysis, approximation and applications,
principal investigator Prof. Giovanni Colombo (Università di Padova)
2020-21Progetto GNAMPA “Analisi reale, teoria della misura ed approssimazione per la ricostruzione di immagini” (Real Analysis, measure theory and approximation for image reconstruction), principal investigator Prof.ssa Anna Rita Sambucini, Università degli Studi di Perugia
2019-20 GNAMPA project ”Metodi di analisi reale per l’approssimazione attraverso operatori discreti e applicazioni” (Real analysis methods for the approximation via discrete operators and applications), principal investigator Dott. Danilo Costarelli, Università degli Studi di Perugia
2018-19 GNAMPA project ”Dinamiche non autonome, analisi reale e applicazioni” (Non autonomous dynamics, real analysis and application), principal investigator Dott. Luca Bisconti, Università degli Studi di Firenze
2017-21 Participant in the Action and Working Group ”Optimal Control and Structural Population” CA COST Action CA16227 Investigation and Mathematical Analysis of Avantgarde Disease Control via Mosquito Nano-Tech-Repellents, principal investigator Dr. Peyman Ghaffari (Portugal)
2017-18GNAMPA project ”Sistemi dinamici, teoria del controllo ed applicazioni” (Dynamical systems, control theory and applications, principal investigator Dott. Luca Zampogni, Università degli Studi di Perugia
2017-18 Progetto Strategico di Ateneo "Calcolo delle Variazioni e Dinamica del Controllo", principal investigator Prof. Vincenzo Vespri
2016-17 GNAMPA project ”Dinamica topologica, sistemi hamiltoniani e teoria del controllo” (Topological dynamics, Hamiltonian systems and control theory), principal investigator Prof.ssa Roberta Fabbri, Università degli Studi di Firenze
2015-16 GNAMPA project ”Dinamiche non autonome, sistemi hamiltoniani e teoria del controllo” (Non autonomous dynamics, Hamiltonian systems and control theory), principal investigator Dr. Marco Spadini, Università degli Studi di Firenze
2013-14 GNAMPA project ”Equazioni differenziali ordinarie nonlineari e inclusioni differenziali: analisi qualitativa e applicazioni” (Nonlinear ODEs and differential inclusions: qualitative analysis and applications), principal investigator Dr. Paola Rubbioni, Università degli Studi di Perugia
2012-13 GNAMPA project ”Equazioni differenziali ordinarie nonlineari e inclusioni differenziali: analisi qualitativa e applicazioni” (Nonlinear ODEs and differential inclusions: qualitative analysis and applications), principal investigator Dr. Valentina Taddei, Università di Modena a Reggio Emilia
2011-12GNAMPA project ”Equazioni differenziali ordinarie nonlineari e inclusioni differenziali: analisi qualitativa e applicazioni” (Nonlinear ODEs and differential inclusions: qualitative analysis and applications), principal investigator Dr. Serena Matucci, Università
degli Studi di Firenze
2010-12 PRIN 2008. ”Controllo Nonlineare: metodi geometrici e applicazioni” (Nonlinear
control geometrical methods and applications), principal investigator Prof. Andrey Agrachev (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste)
2007-09 PRIN 2006. ”Controllabilità stabilizzabilità e ottimizzazione di sistemi dinamici non lineari” (Controllability, stabilizability and optimization of nonlinear dynamical systems), principal investigator Prof. Andrey Agrachev (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste)
2004-06 PRIN 2004. ”Controllo, Ottimizzazione e Stabilità di Sistemi non Lineari: Metodi Geometrici ed Analitici” (Control, Optimizations and stability of nonlinear systems), principal investigator Prof. Andrey Agrachev (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste)
2018 Sufficient conditions for strong local optimality in a Bolza problem with a nonsmooth cost. INRIA Sophya-Antipolis (Francia), 29th Feb 2018
2011 Metodi Hamiltoniani e condizioni sufficienti per l’ottimalità locale forte in problemi di controllo. Dipartimento di Matematica Ulisse Dini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 11th Nov 2011
2009 Hamiltonian approach to optimality conditions in control theory. Brandenburgische
Technische Universität Cottbus, Cottbus (Germany), 19th May 2009
2023 An Hamiltonian Approach To State Constrained Optimal Control Problems - 16th International Workshop on Well-Posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, July 3rd - 7th 2023, Borovets, Bulgaria
2021 Sufficient optimality conditions in Optimal Control - Dynamic Control and Optimization, International Conference on occasion of 65th birthday of Andrey V. Sarychev, February 3rd to 5th 2021, Aveiro, Portugal
Hamiltonian methods in Optimal Control, Workshop on Analysis and Applications May 29th 2021, Perugia
State Local Optimality and Structural Stability Results for Pontryagin Extremals – 15th International Workshop on Well-Posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, June 28th - July 2nd 2021, Borovets, Bulgaria
2019 Constrained bang-bang-singular extremals. 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, 11th -13th Dec 2019, Nice (France)
Strong local optimality and tructural stability of bang-bang-singular extremals. International Conference on Differential & Difference Equations and Applications, 1st -5th Jul 2019, Lisbon (Portugal)
2018 (Invited talk) Bang-bang-singular extremals in Mayer problems. Paths in Mathematical Control Theory, 26th -27th Feb 2018, Torino
2017 Bang-bang-singular extremals in Mayer problems. 18th FGI Conference on Optimization, 25th -28th Sep 2017, Paderborn, Germany
Strong local optimality for bang-bang-singular extremals in single input control problems. 20th IFAC World Congress, 9th -14th Jul 2017, Toulouse, France
2015 On Strong Local Optimality of Concatenations of Bang and Singular Arcs. SIAM Conference on Control & its applications. 8th -10th Jul 2015 - Paris, France
Bang-bang extremals with multiple switches in the minimum time problem. 13th Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games. 13th -16th May 2015 – Wien, Austria
2014 Invertibility of Nonsmooth Maps Arising in Optimal Control. The 10th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications. þ7-11th Jul, Madrid, Spain
Bang-bang trajectories with a double switching time in the minimum time problem. NetCo 2014 New trends in optimal control. 23rd -27th Jun 2014, Tours, France
(Invited talk) State-local optimality in the minimum time problem. Workshop ”Analysis and Geometry in Control Theory and its Applications” with a special tribute to Hélène Frankowska and Hector J. Sussmann. 9th -13th Jun 2014, INDAM, Rome
2013 On optimality and structural stability of extremals having both bang and singular arcs. Non Linear Control: Geometric Methods and Applications, Firenze, 18th -19th Apr 2013
2012 (Invited semi-plenary talk) Optimality and stability of Pontryagin extremals in the minimum time problem. 5th Podlasie Conference on Mathematics. Białystok University of Technology, 25th -28th Jun 2012
Bang-singular-bang extremals in the minimum time problem. 12th Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics. Vienna (Austria), 30th May - 2nd Jun 2012
(Invited talk) Local optimality and structural stability of Pontryagin extremals with singular arcs. INDAM meeting ”Geometric Control and sub-Riemannian Geometry”. Cortona, 21st -25th May 2012
2011 State- and (time, state)-local optimality of a bang-singular Pontryagin extremal. 8Th International Conference on Large Scale Scientific Computations (LSSC 2011). So-zopol (Bulgaria) 6th -10th Jun 2011
2009 Strong local optimality and stability in a parameter dependent Mayer problem. Workshop on Control, Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization, Celebrating Francis Clarke’s and Richard Vinter’s 60th Birthday. Porto (Portugal), 4th -8th May 2009
2008 (Invited talk) Second Order Conditions and Hamiltonian Flows. 50 Years of Optimal
Control. Bedlewo (Poland), 15th -20th Sep 2008
On local state optimality of Pontryagin extremals in the minimum time problem. Controlo 2008. Vila Real (Portugal), 21st -23rd Jul 2008
State local optimality of a bang-singular-bang Pontryagin extremal. Differential Equations and Topology, dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of Lev Semenovich Pontryagin. Moscow (Russian Federation), 17th -22nd Jun 2008
2007 On sufficient second order conditions for the optimality of bang-bang Pontryagin extremals with multiple switches. First Joint International Meeting between the American Mathematical Society and the Polish Mathematical Society. Varsavia (Polonia), 31st Jul - 3rd Aug 2007
On strong optimality of bang-bang Pontryagin extremals with multiple switches. International Conference on Topological Methods, Differential Equations, and Dynamical Systems Dedicated to the 65th birthday of Professor Massimo Furi. Firenze, 13th -16th Jun 2007
Optimality of a bang-bang trajectory via the invertibility of a PC1 function. Workshop on Control, Optimization and Stability of Nonlinear Systems:Geometric and Analytic Methods. Trieste, 30th May - 1st Jun 2007
Sufficient optimality conditions for a bang-bang trajectory in a Bolza problem. Workshop on Mathematical Control Theory and Finance. ISEG, Lisbona (Portugal), 10th - 14th Apr 2007
2006 Minimum time optimality of a partially singular arc: second order conditions. Variational and Differential Problems with Constraints, Conference in honor of Arrigo Cellina on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Venezia, 18th -20th Sep 2006
Minimum time optimality for a multi-input control system: second order sufficient conditions. MTNS 2006, 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems. Kyoto (Japan), 24th -28th Jul 2006
Minimum time optimality of a partially singular arc: second order conditions. International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 3rd Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control (LHMNLC’06). Nagoya (Japan), 19th -21st Jul 2006
2005 Minimum time optimality for a bang-singular arc: second order sufficient conditions. 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, European Control Conference ECC 2005. Sevilla (Spain), 12th -16th Dec 2005
(Invited talk) Optimality of a bang-singular arc: sufficient conditions. Control Systems: Theory, Numerics and Applications. Rome 30th Mar - 1st Apr 2005
2004 (Invited talk) Towards sufficient conditions for the local optimality of a bang-singular Pontryagin extremal. Third Junior European Meeting on Control, Optimization and Computation. Department of Mathematics, Aveiro University (Portugal), 6th -8th Sep 2004
2003 (Invited talk) On local state optimality of bang-bang extremals in a free horizon Bolza problem. Second Junior European Meeting on Control Theory and Stabilization. Dipartimento di Matematica del Politecnico di Torino, 3rd -5th Dec 2003
State-local optimality of bang bang trajectories. Workshop Feedback Control and Optimal Control. Certosa di Pontignano (Siena), 28th -31st Jul 2003
2016 Ottimalità e stabilità strutturale di estremali di Pontryagin nel problema del tempo minimo. Conferenza GNAMPA 2016, Montecatini, 20th -23rd Jun 2016
2009 Risultati di controllo ottimo via metodi Hamiltoniani. Mathematical Control Theory: Controllability, Optimization, Stability. Politecnico di Torino, 20th -21st Apr 2009
2003 Un problema di Mayer a tempo libero. XVII congresso dell’Unione Matematica Italiana. Milano, 8th -13th Sep 2003
2019 Invited session ”Optimality conditions for Control Problems I and II”, in collaboration with Prof. Francesca Carlotta Chittaro (Université de Toulon, France) and Prof. Hélène Frankowska (CNRS, IMJ-PRG, Sorbonne Université, France) in the framework of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Nizza, Francia. 11th -13th Dec 2019
2013 Invited session ”Trends in Optimal Control: Theoretical Issues and Applications”, in collaboration with Prof. Francesca Carlotta Chittaro (Université du Sud Toulon-Var, France) and Prof. Gianna Stefani (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy) in the framework of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Firenze, 10th -13th Dec 2013
2012 Special session ”Bang-bang and singular control structures, Part I, Part II and Part III”, in collaboration with Prof. Ursula Felgenhauer (Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus, Germany) and Prof. Walter Alt (Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany) in the framework of the 12th Viennese Workshop ”Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics”, Vienna (Austria) 30th May - 2nd Jun 2012
2011 Special session ”Discontinuous and singular optimal control, Part I and Part II”, in collaboration with Prof. Ursula Felgenhauer (Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus, Germany) and Prof. Gianna Stefani (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy) in the framework of the 2011 IFIP Conference, Berlin (Germany), 12th -16th Sep 2011
2021 ”Dynamic Control and Optimization on occasion of 65th birthday of Andrey V. Sarychev, Aveiro (Portugal), 3rd -5th Feb 2021, member of the Scientific Committee
2018 ”Workshop on dynamical systems, calculus of variations and control”, Florence, 8th - 9th Nov 2018, in collaboration with Luca Bisconti, Roberta Fabbri, Matteo Focardi and Vincenzo Vespri
2017 Conference ”Mathematical Control Theory with a special session in honor of Gianna Stefani”, Porquerolles, 27th -30th Jun 2017, in collaboration with Ugo Boscain (CNRS-CMAP), Thierry Champion (IMAT-Université de Toulon), Francesca Carlotta Chittaro and Jean-Paul Gauthier (LSIS-IUT), Andrey Sarychev (Firenze)
2013 Workshop ”Non Linear Control: Geometric Methods and Applications”. Firenze, 18th - 19th Apr 2013
ay 2024-25 Delegate for "Prova di verifica delle conoscenze in ingresso" of the School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
ay 2023-24 Delegate for "Prova di verifica delle conoscenze in ingresso" of the School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
ay 2022-23 Delegate for "Prova di verifica delle conoscenze in ingresso" of the School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
ay 2021-22 Delegate for "Prova di verifica delle conoscenze in ingresso" of the School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
ay 2016-17 Delegate for "Prova di verifica delle conoscenze in ingresso" of the School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences up to April 5th 2018
ay 2015-16 Delegate for "Prova di verifica delle conoscenze in ingresso" of the School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
ay 2008-09 member of ”Commissione per l’Accertamento del Debito Formativo” (Commission for the Assessment of Educational Debt) of the Faculty of Engineering
ay 2007-08 member of ”Commissione per l’Accertamento del Debito Formativo” (Commission for the Assessment of Educational Debt) of the Faculty of Engineering
ay 2006-07 member of ”Commissione per l’Accertamento del Debito Formativo” (Commission for the Assessment of Educational Debt) of the Faculty of Engineering
ay 2022-23 Optimal Control, PhD. Programme in Mathematics, Information Sciences and Statistics of the University of Florence
ay 2008-09 Teoria Geometrica del Controllo (Geometric Control Theory), PhD. Programme in Mathematics of the University of Florence
ay 2018-19 ”Optimal control theory” in Training School on Optimal Control Theory and Mosquito Control Strategies: Mathematical Modelling in Epidemiology and Control, at the Department of Mathematics of Aveiro University (Portugal), 19th -21st Apr 2018, in the framework of the project ”European Cooperation in Science and Technology, COST Action CA16227 - Investigation and Mathematical Analysis of Avant-garde Disease Control via Mosquito NanoTech-Repellents”
First referee of the PhD Thesis ”Regularization and Bang-bang Conjugate Times in Optimal Control”, by Cristiana Joao Soares da Silva, joint PhD programme of Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) and Université de Orléans (France)
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Female. Italian citizenship. Florence 1970.
