Gianluca Pacienza

Gianluca Pacienza is a Professor at the Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine (IECL), Université de Lorraine, and leads the Geometry team. His research focuses on algebraic and birational geometry of complex varieties, particularly irreducible holomorphic symplectic (IHS) varieties, moduli spaces, and hyperbolicity. He actively collaborates with institutions like the Simons Center and Università di Roma.

• Education: PhD in Mathematics (2001) from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (advisor: Claire Voisin); postdoctoral research at Ohio State University and La Sapienza di Roma.
• Research Trends: Recent work addresses cone conjectures for IHS and Enriques manifolds, Zariski density of rational curves, deformations of symplectic varieties, and Noether-Lefschetz loci. His studies intersect birational geometry, minimal model program (MMP), and geometric hyperbolicity.

Academic Leadership: Pacienza coordinates the ANR-DFG project 'Positivity on K-trivial varieties' and co-leads a double degree program with Université Libanaise. He advises current PhD students Raphael Hiault and Aurélien Faucher, building on a legacy of mentoring graduates like Enrica Floris and Giosuè Muratore.