Dr Ilaria Colazzo

Dr Ilaria Colazzo

Profile

I am currently a lecturer at the University of Leeds. Before this, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Exeter in the UK, working on the EPSRC project "Hopf-Galois Theory and Skew Braces," led by Professor N. Byott.

Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in the ALGB group (Algebra, Incidence Geometry, Group and Semigroup Theory) under the direction of Professor E. Jespers.

I completed my PhD in 2017 at the University of Salento, supervised by Professor F. Catino. During my doctoral studies, I was a visiting PhD student at the University of Warsaw in the Algebra and Number Theory group headed by Professor J. Okniński.

My PhD thesis focused on the study of a novel algebraic structure known as the semi-brace and its connection to set-theoretical solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation.

Research interests

My research interest focuses on studying algebraic structures associated with discrete versions of some equations in mathematical physics, such as the Yang-Baxter equation and the Pentagon equation.

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Qualifications

  • (2017) Ph.D., Mathematics and Informatics University of Salento (Italy)
  • (2012) M.S., Mathematics University of Salento (Italy)
  • (2009) B.S., Mathematics University of Salento (Italy)