Maria Giovanna Mora

Maria Giovanna Mora is a Full Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy, affiliated with the Dipartimento di Matematica. Her research focuses on the Calculus of Variations and its applications in material science, particularly nonlinear elasticity, plasticity, and dislocation theory. She has held academic positions at SISSA (Trieste) and the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig).

Her work bridges microscopic and macroscopic material behaviors, addressing problems like dislocation interactions, shape transitions in elastic ribbons, and energy minimization in nonlocal systems. She has supervised doctoral students including Giovanni Battista Maggiani and Edoardo Giovanni Tolotti, and mentored postdoctoral researchers such as Filippo Riva and Konstantinos Bessas.

Awardees of her grants include the Blue Sky Research Project (2017-2019) and PRIN grants (2017, 2022). She is an invited speaker at major conferences and has lectured internationally, including at the Hausdorff School and SIAM meetings.

Recent contributions include studies on anisotropic Coulomb energies, frustrated elastic ribbons, and the equilibrium measure for dislocation systems.