Professor Andrea Brini

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Professor of Mathematical Physics

a.brini@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Andrea Brini
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
J21
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
Profile

I did my undergraduate studies in Physics in Milan, and I got my PhD in Mathematical Physics at SISSA, Trieste in 2009 under the supervision of Boris Dubrovin and Alessandro Tanzini. I then spent time as a postdoc at the University of Geneva (2009-11), and later at Imperial College London (Marie Curie Fellow, 2011-13).  

I obtained a CNRS permanent research post based at the University of Montpellier in 2013, and held visiting research positions again at Imperial College (2016-18) and MSRI Berkeley (2018), following which I took up an academic post in Birmingham in 2018. I joined the University of Sheffield in 2019, on leave from CNRS.

My CV is here.

Research interests

My research field lies at the intersection of Geometry and Mathematical Physics. I work on the mathematical aspects of String Theory and their interface with Integrable Systems and Algebraic Geometry. My main research topics are the theory of topological strings and Gromov-Witten theory, with emphasis on their connections to gauge theory, matrix models, integrable systems, and other moduli space problems.

I'm a member of the Sheffield Algebraic Geometry and Mathematical Physics group.

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Mirror symmetry, quantum curves and integrable systems EPSRC
Administrative duties

Head of Group, Algebraic Geometry and Mathematical Physics

Deputy Director of Research and Innovation, School of Mathematics and Statistics

Member, Strategic Advisory Team for Mathematical Sciences, EPSRC