| Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara. | 
                     
                
                 
                My main research topics are: 
                
                  - Wonderful compactifications, spherical and toric varieties.
 
                  - Cox rings, Mori dream spaces, Fano and log Fano varieties.
 
                  - Rational points on varieties over non closed fields.
 
                  - Computational algebra, tensor decomposition algorithms.
 
                  - Rational, unirational and rationally connected varieties.
 
                  - Moduli spaces and moduli stacks of curves and stable maps.
 
                  - Conic bundles and Calabi-Yau structures on projective 3-folds. 
 
                  - Secant varieties, defectiveness, identifiability.
 
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