Lucia Caporaso is an Italian mathematician, holding a professorship in mathematics at

Roma Tre University Roma Tre UniversityUniroma3.it
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and

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Education and career

Caporaso earned a

laurea In Italy, the ''laurea'' is the main post-secondary academic degree. The name originally referred literally to the laurel wreath, since ancient times a sign of honor and now worn by Italian students right after their official graduation ceremony ...

from

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a Public university, public research university l ...

in 1989. She completed her Ph.D. at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1993. Her dissertation, ''On a Compactification of the Universal Picard Variety over the Moduli Space of Stable Curves'', was supervised by Joe Harris. She became a Benjamin Pierce Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, a researcher at the

University of Rome Tor Vergata Tor Vergata University of Rome, also known as the University of Rome II ( it, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"), is a public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. Located in the southeastern suburb of Rome, the ...

, an assistant professor at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, and an associate professor at the

University of Sannio The University of Sannio ( it, Università degli Studi del Sannio, UNISANNIO) is a university located in Benevento, southern Italy. Founded in 1998 (being previously a part of the University of Salerno), the University of Sannio is organized in ...

, before moving to Roma Tre as a professor in 2001. From 2013 to 2018, she has headed the Department of Mathematics and Physics at Roma Tre.

Recognition

Caporaso was the 1997 winner of the Bartolozzi Prize. She is an invited speaker at the 2018

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

, speaking in the section on algebraic and complex geometry.

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