Postdocs and Research Contracts (2001-2008)

• Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6, France), Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Prof. Doina Cioranescu. Individual Marie Curie Fellowship (2001-2003); 

• EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Prof. Bernard Dacorogna (2005-2006);

• Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo 'Mauro Picone' (IAC-CNR, Rome): Contracts (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007); 

• Department of Mathematics, Sapienza University of Rome: Contracts (2003, 2007) and Assegni di ricerca (2003-2005, 2007-2008).

Italian Funding as Principal Investigator

• 2018 FFABR, Finanziamento delle Attività Base di Ricerca .

• 2017 Progetto Medio per la ricerca di Ateneo (12 months). Title of the project: Studio del comportamento statico e dinamico di sistemi complessi con metodi probabilistici e variazionali. 

• 2016 Progetto Medio per la ricerca di Ateneo with Postdoctoral position (12 months). Title of the project: Variational and Probabilistic Methods for the study of Complex Systems. 

• 2009 Ateneo Federato A.DE.S.SO (12 months). Title of the project: Integral and supremal type variational problems under differential constraints.

Italian Funding as Investigator

Progetto Medio per la ricerca di Ateneo ( 2009- 2024); Gnampa (2006 and 2012); Prin (since 1997--).

Short Visits (more than 2 weeks, less than 1 month)

 July 2004 Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, France (European Network HMS2000, invited by Doina Cioranescu). 

 October 2005 University of Bath, Bath Institute for Complex Systems (BICS), Department of Mathematical Sciences, UK (invited by Johannes Zimmer).

 July 2011 Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Pittsburgh, USA (invited by Irene Fonseca).

Co-Organisation of conferences

• Co-organiser of the conference: Gradient Flows face-to-face3 (11-14 September 2023). Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon 1 (Lyon, France) https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/9717 

• Co-organiser of the conference: Gradient Flows face-to-face (9-11 September 2021). Dept of Math, Sapienza. 

https://sites.google.com/view/gradientflowsface-to-face/home

• Co-organiser of the Weekly Seminar series of Mathematical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics, Sapienza (2015-2019).            http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/ricerca/seminari/analisi-matematica/ 

• Co-organiser of the conference A.MA.CA (Mathematical Analysis at Castelnuovo) at Dept of Math, Sapienza  (8-9 may 2017; 7 may 2018)

Summer schools, workshops and seminars/minicourse for Ph.D. students and Young researchers.

Nadia Ansini had the opportunity to participate either as organiser or as speakers to events mainly devoted to Ph.D. students and young researchers. Summer schools and workshops provide a great opportunity for more advanced students to learn about specialised topics, present their own research and build their own scientific network.

• 2023 Minicourse Minimizing movements: a variational method for evolutionary problems at Lund University (Sweden, May 22-26)

• 2016 Invited speakers at Conference NPDEs and Gradient Flows at TU Wien (Austria)

• 2017 Co-organiser of the Ninth Summer School in Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Dept of Math., Sapienza (June 5-9 2017) http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/people/garroni/SummerSchool2017.html

• 2014 Organizer and speaker for a series of lectures on Local minimisation and variational evolution at University of Bath, Dept of Mathematical Sciences

Services to the scientific community 

• 2023 Member of the panel for two tenure tracks  at Dept of Math (Sapienza). 

• 2023 Member of the panel for tutoring fellowship at Dept of Physics (Sapienza).

• 2022 Member of the panel for Postdoctoral positions at Dept of Math (Sapienza).

• 2018 Member of the panel for  Postdoctoral positions at Dept of Math (Sapienza) .

• 2017- Reviewer of a Research Proposal for NWO Grant. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Vidi grant within the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme of the Domain Science.

• 2014 Member of the panel for a Postdoctoral position Leverhulme Fellowship. University of Bath, Dept of Math. Sciences (UK)

• 2009 Member of the Admission panel for Admission Tests, Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza.

Co-Examiner and Member of the panel for Ph.D. defence 

• University of L' Aquila 2019. Candidate: Antonio Esposito (Supervisor: Marco Di Francesco)

• University of Bath (UK) 2019. Candidate : Xavier Pellet (Supervisor: Lucia Scardia)

• University of L' Aquila 2020. Candidate: Yahya Jaafra (Supervisor: Marco Di Francesco)

Teaching Activities

 Abroad: 

• Lund University  (Faculty of Engineering): Calculus of Variations (May 2023)

• EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland): Analysis III , IV (2005-2006 in French).

At Sapienza:

• Applied Computer Science  and Artificial Intelligence (ACSAI, bachelor degree in English): Calculus Unit 1 (2021-23),  Calculus Unit 2 (2020-24);

• Physics bachelor degree: Analysis (2020-21; 2021-22; 2023-24);

• Computer Science bachelor degree : Differential Calculus (2019-2020);

• Mathematics master degree: Analisi Superiore (2018-2019, 2019-2020);

• SSAS-Sapienza School for Advanced Studies: Calculus of Variations and Partial differential equations (, 2017-2018, 2018-2019);

• Architecture master degree: Mathematics I, II (2008–2019); 

• Mathematics degree: tutoring for Analysis I (2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005); 

In Italy: University of Cassino (Faculty of Engineering)

• Analysis I, II (2006-2007); 

• Analysis II, III (2007-2008); 

• Analysis I, II (2008-2009). 

Formal Advisor of Master’s Degree students in Mathematics

• Alice Moroni, Title of the thesis: Study of the stability of Gradient Flows via Gamma-convergence. January 2023.      

• Sergio Desideri, Title of the thesis: Existence of gradient flows in Wasserstein space via minimizing movements. March 2022.

• Giulia Latagliata, Title of the thesis: Homogenization of periodic structures by variational approach.  October 2021

• Federico Palmulli, Title of the thesis: Optimal Transport from Monge and Kantorovich problems to Benamou-Brenier Formula.  July 2020

• Laura Mattei. Title of the thesis: Derivation of nonlinear theory of elastic membrane: from 3D nonlinear elasticity to 2D via Γ-convergence.  July 2020

• Jessica d’Ambrino. Title of the thesis: Kinetic Models for Opinion Formation. September 2019   

Selected seminars (invited speaker)   

•   Workshop on Calculus of variations: Geometric Measure Theory, Relaxation and Gamma -Convergence, Levico Terme (Trento), Italy, April 1998.

•   Department of Mathematics Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, March 2000.

•   Le Séminaire du Groupe de travail  Homogénéisation et Echelles Multiples, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis   Lions (Paris 6), France, March 2001.

•   Le Séminaire du   Laboratoire ACSIOM, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, November 2001.

•   Séminaire du Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (Paris 6), France, May 2002.

•  Young Researchers Workshop a Skodsborg (Copenhagen), Danemark, May 2002.

•  Le Séminaire du Groupe de travail Homogénéisation et Echelles multiples, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis   Lions (Paris 6), France, January 2003.

•  Conference Amam 2003, Nice, France, February 2003.

•   Conference on Multiscale Problems and Asymptotic Analysis, Narvik, Norway, June 2004.

•  Le Séminaire du Groupe de travail Homogénéisation et Echelles multiples, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (Paris 6), France, June 2004.

• Le Séminaire d'Analyse, Section de Mathématiques, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2005.

• CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, February 2006.

• Seminars Mathematical Analysis, Department of Mathematics of Sapienza University of Rome, September 2009.

• Seminars Mathematical Analysis, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Dept of Math, Pittsburgh (USA), July 2011.

•  Le Séminaire du Groupe de travail Homogénéisation et Echelles multiples, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis   Lions (Paris 6),  France, December 2012.

•  Seminars Mathematical Analysis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath (UK), October 2013.

• Seminars Mathematical Analysis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Swansea (UK), February 2014.

•  Seminars Mathematical Analysis, Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK), November 2014.

•  Seminars Mathematical Analysis, Department of Mathematics, University of Sussex (UK), December 2014.

• GW4 Meeting, Department of Mathematical Sciences,  University of Bath (UK), December 2014.

•  Working seminar on Calculus of Variations and Gamma-convergence. Dipartimento di Matematica, Sapienza Universita' di Roma, November 2015.

• Conference Women and Research in Mathematics: the contribution of SISSA, Trieste, September 2016. 

• Seminars Mathematical Analysis, Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo (Japan), October 2016.

• Conference CoMFoS16: Mathematical Analysis of Continuum Mechanics and Industrial Applications II, Fukuoka (Japan) October 2016. 

• Seminars Mathematical Analysis, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University (Japan), October 2016.

• Conference NPDEs and Gradient Flows, TU Wien (Austria), November 2016.

•  Conference  Contemporary research in elliptic PDEs and related topics, University of Bari, May 2017.

•  Conference Operators, Operator Families and Asymptotics II, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University   of Bath (UK), January 2019.

•  Conference Cross-diffusion systems, gradient flows, and their perturbations, GSSI (L' Aquila), April 2019. 

•  Seminars Mathematical Analysis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), November 2019.

•   Conference Discrete variational Problems, Salone Comunale-La Maddalena, September 2021.

•  Conference Gradient flows Face-to-Face2, L’ Aquila, September 2022.

•  AMACA 2022, Sapienza Department of Mathematics, October 2022.

•  Seminars Mathematical Analysis, Department of Mathematics, University of  Trento, March 2023