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

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.

Theses

My PhD thesis about Mirror Symmetry for Fano varieties and for singularities, written under the supervision of Alessio Corti (Imperial College London), September 2017
My MSc thesis about the moduli stack of curves and hyperelliptic curves, written under the supervision of Angelo Vistoli (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), March 2013
My BSc thesis (in Italian) about the Lefschetz hyperplane theorem, written under the supervision of Rita Pardini (Università di Pisa), July 2010

Talks

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.