Research topics

  • Classification of manifolds.

  • Higher order connections on frame bundles.

  • Affine Differential Geometry.

  • Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics

  • Spectral Geometry.

  • Lorentz Geometry and Relativity.

  • Semi-Riemannian Geometry.

  • Finsler Geometry.

  • Global analysis in Lorentz manifolds: geodesics, convexity.

  • Rational mechanics: particles under the action of potentials, magnetic fields and forces.

  • Causal structure of a space-time: trapped surfaces, black holes, causal and conformal boundary.

  • Busemann and Gromov constructions: compactification of Finsler manifolds, generalization of Busemann functions.

  • Geodesic curves, conjugate points and curvature in Lorentz manifolds.

  • Maximal spacelike hypersurfaces with constant curvature.

  • Hypersurfaces in symmetric spaces.

  • Spaces with symmetries: generalizations of symmetric spaces and circles acting on space-times.

  • Equivalence between different geometric structures.

  • (pseudo-)Riemannian conformal structures.

  • Hypersurfaces and submanifolds.

  • Isometric immersions.

  • Geometric inequalities in metric measure spaces.

  • Potential theory.

  • Variational problems in Differential Geometry.

  • Variational Problems associated to elliptic operators.

  • Variational problems related to relative perimeter and isoperimetric inequalities in Euclidean convex sets.

  • Variational problems related to area in manifolds with densities.

  • Variational problems related to the Minkowski content in metric measure spaces.

  • Variational problems related to sub-Riemannian area in sub-Riemannian geometry.

  • Extensions of G-structures.

  • Colour symmetry.

  • Differential Systems.

  • Finite-type submanifolds.

  • Extremal submanifolds.

  • Minimal surfaces.

  • Constant curvature surfaces.

  • Surfaces with prescribed mean curvature.

  • Tessellations and mosaics.