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Name: Rossella GIORGIO
Current position: Ph.D. student (Project Assistant) at ASC
Research group: Multiscale Calculus of Variations (Prof. Elisa DAVOLI)
Starting date: October 2022
Doctoral project: Nonlocal Models for Micromagnetic Variational Problems

Hi! I'm Rossella Giorgio, Ph.D. Student at the ASC Institute in the research group "Multiscale Calculus of Variations" led by Prof. Elisa Davoli. I am also affiliated with the FWF project "Analysis and modeling of magnetic skyrmions" led by Prof. Giovanni DI FRATTA (University of Naples).

I completed my university studies at the University of Pavia in September 2022, with a master thesis on minimisers for nonlocal anisotropic dislocation energies. During my final year, I participated in an Erasmus+ traineeship programme at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (UK), an experience that fully convinced me to give academia a try and pursue a Ph.D.

My research interests are in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, and in their applications to problems arising in Physics and Materials Science. My doctoral project focuses especially on nonlocal models for multiscale variational problems, motivated by applications in Micromagnetics. The key research points are characterising the interplay of nonlocality with microstructure formations in magnetic phenomena, and contributing to the extension and the improving of nonlocal mathematical techniques into the fields of Calculus of Variations and PDEs. Currently, I am also exploring new research directions, such as Free-Discontinuity Problems and Image Segmentation.

At the moment, I see my future in academia. Being a researcher in mathematics—especially in my field—offers me the opportunity to study problems that come from real-world applications while using the formality and rigor of pure mathematics, which I find genuinely fascinating. This is also the main reason I chose to study mathematics at university in the first place, and why, now that I am concluding my doctoral studies, I want to continue pursuing this career. Naturally, I don’t know what the future will bring, but I’m curious to see where it leads.

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