Andrea Petracci

I am a tenure-track assistant professor (RTD-B) at the Department of Mathematics of Università di Bologna.
Previously I worked at Freie Universität Berlin in the group of Klaus Altmann.
I graduated from Imperial College London in September 2017 and my advisor was Alessio Corti. Before that I studied in Pisa (Italy).

Here is my CV.
Here is my Google Scholar profile.

My institutional e-mail address for teaching:
a [dot] petracci [at] unibo [dot] it

My permanent e-mail address for research:
andrea [dot] petracci [at] alumni [dot] sns [dot] it

Here is my institutional website.

Address: Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Bologna
Piazza di Porta San Donato 5
40126 Bologna
Italy

Where I'll be

Sep 2025: A tour through algebraic geometry: a conference for the 60th birthday of Alessio Corti, Cortona, Italy

Sep 2025: Algebraic and tropical geometry of moduli spaces of curves, Bologna, Italy

Jun 2025: Structures and Symmetries in Algebraic Geometry, Krakow, Poland

Apr 2025: Toric Geometry, Oberwolfach, Germany

Mar 2025: Workshop on birational geometry, Pohang, Korea

Mar 2024: K-Stability, Birational Geometry and Mirror Symmetry, Oberwolfach, Germany

Research

The area of my work is algebraic geometry. My interests lie in the classification problem of Fano varieties and their moduli. I am especially interested in toric geometry, deformation theory, Gromov-Witten theory and the Gross-Siebert program.

Here is the list of my papers.

Here there are the recordings of some of my research talks:

Introduction to toric geometry, Apr 2021
Toric geometry and singularities on K-moduli, Dec 2020
On deformations and smoothings of toric Fano varieties and of toric singularities (joint talk with Helge Ruddat), Sep 2020
K-moduli stacks and K-moduli spaces of Fano varieties can be singular, Aug 2020

Teaching at Università di Bologna

Spring 2025: lectures of Scheme Theory, exercise classes of Topology

Spring 2024: lectures of Scheme Theory, exercise classes of Topology

Spring 2023: lectures of Scheme Theory, exercise classes of Topology

Spring 2022: lectures of Scheme Theory, exercise classes of Topology

Autumn 2021: some lectures of Linear Algebra for engineers

Teaching at Freie Universität Berlin

Summer Semester 2021: course/seminar of topics in Algebraic Geometry (Seminar "Forschungsmodul Algebra/Algebraische Geometrie"),
research seminar of Algebraic Geometry (Forschungsseminar),
exercises classes of Algebraic Geometry (Zentralübung von Algebra II)

Winter Semester 2020/21: course of Computer Algebra

Summer Semester 2020: lectures and exercise classes of Funktionentheorie (Complex Analysis)

Winter Semester 2019/20: course of Computer Algebra

Summer Semester 2019: lectures and exercise classes of Funktionentheorie (Complex Analysis)

Winter Semester 2018/19: exercise classes of Algebra I (Commutative Algebra)

Other activities

In September 2025 I am co-organising A tour through algebraic geometry: a conference for the 60th birthday of Alessio Corti in Cortona, Italy.
In December 2023, together with Enrico Fatighenti, I created an Algebraic Geometry Advent Calendar.
In September 2023 I co-organised an algebraic geometry workshop in Bologna.
In September 2019 I co-organised the opening conference of the thematic Einstein semester on algebraic geometry, which was held in Berlin in the winter semester 2019/20.
In July 2018, together with Tom Ducat I organised a workshop in Nottingham about cluster algebras and algebraic geometry.
In the academic year 2014-2015, together with Lars Sektnan, I organised the Junior Geometry Seminar at Imperial College.
In April 2014 I co-organised the Traumatic Workshop: Birational Geometry and Fano Varieties at Imperial College.
In December 2013, together with Andrea Fanelli, I took photos for the charity calendar of the geometry group of Imperial College.