Team members
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Carlotto
name:Prof. Dr. Alessandro Carlotto
https://people.math.ethz.ch/~ac
mailto:alessandro.carlotto@math.ethz.ch
Alessandro Carlotto serves as Principal Investigator for the ERC project CHANGE. A proud alumnus of the
Scuola Normale Superiore, he obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 2014 defending a thesis entitled
Rigidity and flexibility phenomena in general relativity, written under the direction of Richard Schoen. He was then a postdoc in the group of André Neves in London, and a Junior Fellow at the
ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies, before joining the faculty of the department of Mathematics of ETH. Among several visiting positions, he was a member of the IAS in Princeton for the special year 2018-2019, devoted to
Variational Methods in Geometry. See
here for biographical information and career highlights, instead follow this
link for an interview.
Here is also a video presenting Alessandro and his work on the occasion of the conferral of the Latsis Prize 2022: videoclip
name:Dr. David Wiygul
https://people.math.ethz.ch/~dwiygul
mailto:david.wiygul@math.ethz.ch
David Wiygul received his PhD from Brown University under the direction of Nicos Kapouleas, defending a thesis entitled
Doubling constructions with asymmetric sides. Since then he has obtained several significant results, including - jointly with Kapouleas - a strikingly simple, closed formula for the Morse index of Lawson surfaces in the three-dimensional sphere and a proof the uniqueness of such surfaces given their topology and symmetry group. He has been a postdoc in this project since September 1st, 2021.
name:Giada Franz
https://people.math.ethz.ch/~franzgi
mailto: giada.franz@math.ethz.ch
Giada Franz started her PhD studies at ETH Zürich in September 2018 after having obtained her
Laurea Specialistica in Mathematics from Università di Pisa, and the
Diploma di Licenza from the Scuola Normale Superiore. She has joined this ERC project in September 2021. She will defend her thesis entitled
Contributions to the theory of free boundary minimal surfaces in June 2022, before joining the faculty of MIT as CLE Moore Instructor.