Diletta Martinelli
MacGillavry Fellow, University of Amsterdam
Diletta Martinelli did her PhD in London at Imperial College under the supervision of Paolo Cascini in the area of algebraic geometry, she graduated in November 2016. After that she has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh, MSRI in Berkeley and at the University of Glasgow. Since October 2019 she has started a tenure track at the University of Amsterdam where she is a MacGillavry Fellow.
Her research interests lie mainly in higher dimensional birational geometry. Her work aims to study effectivity questions on algebraic varieties related to their underlying topology as complex manifolds. She is also interested in positive characteristic methods, moduli spaces and Calabi-Yau manifolds. More recently she is interested in the interplay between birational geometry of moduli spaces of K3s surfaces and Bridgeland stability conditions.
In the past few years she has been involved in several projects concerning mathematical education in Africa, she has visited the African Institute Mathematical Sciences in South Africa and Cameroon where she taught master courses and supervised several students. She has co-organized several workshops at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and she is involved in a mentorship program for African students organized by the University of Oxford. She is committed to createa more inclusive and welcoming space in academia: in Amsterdam she is an active member of the Diversity Sounding Board at the Faculty of Science where topics regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are discussed.