Alessandro Neri

Alessandro Neri is a postdoctoral researcher in mathematics at Ghent University, Belgium, since October 2022, supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Nonlinear Algebra group at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (2021–2022), and held an Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2019–2021) at INRIA Saclay and Technical University of Munich. He earned his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Zurich in 2019 under Joachim Rosenthal.

• Current affiliation: Ghent University, Department of Mathematics: Analysis, Logic and Discrete Mathematics
• Prior affiliations: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, University of Zurich, INRIA Saclay, Technical University of Munich

His research focuses on Algebraic Coding Theory, particularly rank-metric codes, connections with finite geometry, finite fields, and combinatorics. His work explores algebraic structures like skew polynomial rings, evasive subspaces, and minimal codes, with applications to error correction and code design. Recent publications include studies on flag-rank metrics, symmetric rank-metric codes, and strong blocking sets, often in collaboration with leading experts in coding theory.

Recent article trends highlight rank-metric and sum-rank codes (14/15), strong blocking sets (3/15), and symmetric structures (2/15). The work intersects algebraic geometry (7/15), combinatorics (6/15), and finite field theory (8/15), with applications to network coding and cryptography.

Scientific Awards

• FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship

He has no listed advisees but collaborates with 27+ researchers, including Daniel Augot, Antonia Wachter-Zeh, and Joachim Rosenthal. His work has been presented at 12+ international venues, such as the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry (2023) and Algebraic Methods in Coding Theory (2022). He co-organized the Coding Theory Colloquium (2023) and Algebraic Coding Theory Summer School (2022).