Alessandra Bernardi

Alessandra Bernardi obtained her PhD in 2006 from the University of Milano with a thesis on "Varieties parameterizing forms and their secant varieties."  She then worked as a research assistant at Texas A&M University, College Station and as "Investigador extrajero" at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, financed by Grupo Santander.  Following postdoctoral appointments at the University of Bologna and the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy, and a teaching assistantship at MSRI, she held an Individual Marie Curie Fellowship at INRIA Sophia Antipolis from 2010 to 2012.  Most recently, she moved on to research positions, first at the University of Torino and then at the University of Bologna.