{"id":14795,"date":"2025-12-05T13:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/daniela-di-serafino-international-doctoral-award-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:31:09","slug":"daniela-di-serafino-international-doctoral-award-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/daniela-di-serafino-international-doctoral-award-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDaniela di Serafino\u201d International Doctoral Award \u2013 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to announce that at the first edition of the <em data-start=\"256\" data-end=\"315\">\u201cDaniela di Serafino\u201d International Doctoral Award \u2013 2025<\/em>, Dr. <strong data-start=\"321\" data-end=\"337\">Igor Simunec<\/strong>, formerly a student of our Department and currently at the Institute of Mathematics of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, has been selected as the winner for his doctoral thesis <em data-start=\"527\" data-end=\"620\">\u201cAdvances in polynomial and rational Krylov methods for matrix functions with applications\u201d<\/em>, defended at the Scuola Normale Superiore.<\/p>\n\n<p>Established to honour the scientific legacy of Daniela di Serafino, this award recognises outstanding doctoral dissertations in mathematics based on criteria such as originality, quality of results, methodological innovation, and impact on the relevant scientific field.<\/p>\n\n<p>We are also particularly proud to highlight that our research fellow <strong data-start=\"1206\" data-end=\"1227\">Dr. Miryam Gnazzo<\/strong> received an <strong data-start=\"1288\" data-end=\"1310\">Honourable Mention<\/strong> for her thesis <em data-start=\"1326\" data-end=\"1398\">\u201cOn the approximation of the closest singular matrix-valued functions\u201d<\/em> (Gran Sasso Science Institute), which presents innovative and computationally effective results in the study of distance-to-singularity problems for matrix-valued functions, combining advanced tools from numerical linear algebra and optimization.<\/p>\n\n<p>The award ceremony will take place on <strong data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1704\">12 January 2025<\/strong>, at <strong data-start=\"1709\" data-end=\"1723\">10:30 a.m.<\/strong>, at the Rectorate of the University of Campania \u201cLuigi Vanvitelli\u201d. For more information please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matematicaefisica.unicampania.it\/dipartimento\/premio-daniela-di-serafino\/2-non-categorizzato\/782-selezione-premio-di-serafino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">following page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that at the first edition of the \u201cDaniela di Serafino\u201d International Doctoral Award \u2013 2025,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-dark btn-sm unipi-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/daniela-di-serafino-international-doctoral-award-2025\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-ph-d"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 12:31:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14796,"href":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795\/revisions\/14796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dm.unipi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}