Date and place of birth: 29th November 1984, Mondovì (Italy)
Nationality: Italian
| Addresses: |
Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria Via Valleggio 11 22100 Como Italy Istituto Grothendieck ETS Corso Statuto 24 12084 Mondovì Italy Université de Paris-Saclay CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire MICS Plateau de Moulon, 3 rue Joliot-Curie 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette France |
E-mail addresses: olivia@oliviacaramello.com; olivia.caramello@uninsubria.it; olivia.caramello@igrothendieck.org
| 01/09/2023 - present | Associated researcher
at the Laboratoire MICS of CentraleSupélec Université de Paris-Saclay (France) |
| 01/10/2022 - present | Coordinator of the
Centre for Topos Theory and its Applications, Grothendieck Institute (Italy) |
| 01/06/2020 - present | Associate
Professor at the University of Insubria in Como (Italy) |
| 10/03/2022 - present | President
of the Grothendieck Institute (Italy) |
| 1/1/2020 - 31/12/2022 | Gelfand Chair Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (France) |
| 1/06/2017 - 31/05/2020 | Assistant
Professor at the University of Insubria in Como (Italy) |
| 1/12/2016 - 31/05/2017 | Post-doctoral researcher Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (France) |
| 1/12/2014 - 30/11/2016 | Marie Curie INdAM-COFUND Fellow Département de mathématiques, Université de Paris 7 (France) and Department of Mathematics of the University of Milan (Italy) |
| 1/12/2013 - 30/11/2014 | CARMIN Fellow Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (France) |
| 1/10/2013 - 30/11/2013 | Visiting researcher Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn (Germany) |
| 1/10/2010 - 30/09/2013 |
Research Fellow Jesus College and DPMMS University of Cambridge (U.K.) |
| 1/10/2009 - 30/09/2010 |
Junior Visitor Centro Di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) |
Editor of Logica Universalis
Editor of Advanced Studies: Euro-Tbilisi Mathematical Journal
| 15/02/2024 - 16/06/2024 | Visitor at the Lagrange Mathematics and Computing Research Center, Paris |
| 9/07/2023 - 26/07/2023 | Visitor at BIMSA (China) |
| 15/02/2023 - 15/06/2023 | Visitor at the Lagrange Mathematics and Computing Research Center, Paris |
| 25/09/2022 - 1/10/2022 | Visitor at ETH Zurich |
| 1/02/2022 - 30/04/2022 | Visitor at the Lagrange Mathematics and Computing Research Center, Paris |
| 14/02/2019 - 31/03/2019 | Visitor at IHÉS |
| 20/01/2018 - 15/04/2018 | Visitor
at IHÉS |
| 07/04/2014 - 11/07/2014 | CARMIN Fellow
at IHP |
| 10/03/2014 - 6/04/2014 |
Visitor at the University of Milan (Italy) |
| 2/03/2014 - 9/03/2014 |
Visitor at the University of
Salerno
(Italy) |
| 01/10/2013 - 30/11/2013 |
Visitor
at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics |
| 25/04/2013 - 2/05/2013 |
Member
of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| 14/01/2013 - 15/02/2013 |
Visitor at the
Université de Paris 7
(Laboratoire PPS) |
| 9/12/2012 – 21/12/2012 |
Visitor
at the University of Milan |
| 3/10/2011 - 3/11/2011 | Visitor
at IHÉS |
I have also visited the IHES from 2020 to 2022 as holder of the Gelfand Chair.
| 2006-2009 |
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (U.K.)
Research field: Logic and Category Theory, in particular Topos Theory Thesis: "The Duality between Grothendieck Toposes and Geometric Theories" Supervisor: Prof. Peter Johnstone |
| 2004-2006 |
"Laurea Magistrale in Matematica" (a Master-level degree in Mathematics) University of Turin (Italy) Final mark: 110/110 with honours and honorable mention |
| 2001-2004 |
"Laurea Triennale in Matematica" (Bachelor’s degree
in Mathematics) University of Turin (Italy) Final mark: 110/110 with honours |
| 2004 |
"Diploma di Pianoforte" (equivalent
to a Bachelor’s degree in Music) Conservatorio di Cuneo (Italy) |
| 2019 | First woman to be awarded a Chair at IHES (namely, the Gelfand Chair) |
| 2017 | Winner of a position in the Italian ministerial recruitment programme for young researchers "Rita Levi Montalcini" |
| 2014 | Winner of a post-doctoral fellowship "L'Oréal France-UNESCO pour les femmes et la science" (en partenariat avec l'Académie des sciences) |
|
2011 |
AILA Prize 2010 (for the best Ph.D. thesis in Mathematical Logic by an Italian mathematician defended in the years 2008-2010). |
|
2009 |
Junior Visiting Position at the "Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi" of the "Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa" (Italy) for the academic year 2009/2010 (fellowship entirely funded by the Centre) |
|
2009 |
Three-year Research Fellowship at Jesus College, University of Cambridge (U.K.) (deferred to start in October 2010) |
| 2009 | Invited participant (fully funded by EPSRC) to the LMS Durham Symposium "New Directions in the Model Theory of Fields", 20th-30th July 2009 (U.K.) |
| 2008 | First prize at the "Edith Leigh Piano Competition 2008", Trinity College, Cambridge |
|
2007 |
Selected as the Representative of Italy at the "Korea-Europe Next-Generation Leaders Program 2007" (Seoul, South Korea) |
| 2007 and 2008 | Invited Jury Member of the "Pirelli Internetional Award", Rome (Italy) |
|
2006
-
2009 |
"Prince of Wales Studentship" of Trinity College, Cambridge (given to the most outstanding of the candidates for the External Research Studentships) |
| 2006 | Awarded the status of "Honorary Cambridge European Trust Scholar" |
|
2006 |
Offered admission with full funding (Scatcherd European Scholarship and EPSRC Studentship) to the D.Phil. in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oxford (U.K.) |
|
2006 |
Offered admission with full funding to the Ph.D. program in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.A.) |
|
2004 and
2006 |
"Premio Optime" (on both the occasions of my degrees in Turin, awarded by the "Unione Industriale di Torino" to the top graduates of the University of Turin) |
| 2001 - 2004 | National-level scholarship awarded by the "Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica", Rome (Italy) |
In 2004 and 2006 I received media attention (resulting in interviews in national or regional newspapers) being one of the youngest graduates of Italy; in fact, I got my two Bachelor's degrees (in Mathematics and in Music) at the age of 19.
| Music |
After my degree in Music I have continued to pursue my interests in musical analysis and piano performance, giving recitals in various occasions. For example, I performed a concert at the international conference "Mathematics and its applications" (Turin, July 2006), and I gave a piano solo recital in Trinity College Chapel (Cambridge, May 2008). |
| Philosophy
and cognitive science |
My mathematical work has always been accompanied by a wider reflection on the abstract principles inspiring it. This has led me to a number of insights on the nature of mathematical creativity and logical reasoning in general, which I have informally divulged to friends and colleagues throughout the years. I plan to eventually collect these thoughts into a book describing the philosophical foundations of my work on unifying mathematical theories through Topos Theory. |
A full CV is available upon request.