Alberto Cattaneo

Alberto Sergio Cattaneo (26 June 1967 in Milan) is an Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist, specializing in geometry related to quantum field theory and string theory.

Biography After attending Liceo scientifico A. Volta in Milan, Cattaneo studied physics at University of Milan, graduating in 1991. In 1995, he obtained a PhD in theoretical physics at the same university; his thesis, entitled Teorie topologiche di tipo BF ed invarianti dei nodi (Topological BF theories and knot invariants), was supervised by Maurizio Martellini.

Cattaneo worked as a postdoc in 1995-1997 at Harvard University (with Arthur Jaffe) and in 1997-1998 at the University of Milan (with Paolo Cotta-Ramusino). In 1998, he moved to University of Zurich's mathematics department as an assistant professor, and he became a full professor in 2003. Cattaneo was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.

Research Cattaneo's research interests include deformation quantization, symplectic and Poisson geometry, topological quantum field theories, and the mathematical aspects of perturbative quantization of gauge theories. as well as a description of the symplectic groupoid integrating a Poisson manifold as an infinite-dimensional symplectic quotient.

He supervised 14 PhD students as of 2022.

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