Valentina Franceschi

Valentina Franceschi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics Tullio Levi-Civita, University of Padova. She previously held roles including Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Sorbonne University (2019-2021), Lectrice Hadamard at Université Paris-Sud, and Inria postdoctoral fellow (2016-2019). Her research focuses on geometric analysis, sub-Riemannian geometry, and applications to neuroscience and control theory. She is affiliated with the Padova Neuroscience Center.

• PhD: University of Padova (2016)
• Key Awards: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (MesuR Project)

Research interests include isoperimetric inequalities, subelliptic operators, and cortical-inspired models for vision. She collaborates internationally on projects involving control theory and anisotropic geometry.