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I am Senior Researcher in pure mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University (Lithuania), within the Statistics and Probability Group of the Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies.


  • Work address: VU Duomenų mokslo ir skaitmeninių technologijų institutas, Akademijos g. 4, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania.

  • E-mail: daniele.otera(AT)gmail.com and daniele.otera(AT)mif.vu.lt


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Short Vitae: (Full CV: CV-en - CV-it)

      • Born in 1976 in Palermo, Italy.

      • 1999: Mathematics Degree (Laurea), Università di Palermo, Italy.

      • 2001: Master's Degree (D.E.A. - Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) in Mathematics, Université Paris-Sud 11, France.

      • 2006: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Università di Palermo, Italy, and Universtité de Paris-Sud 11, France. Co-tutored PhD Thesis.

      • 2006-2007: Visiting Research Fellow (7 months), Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble, France.

      • 2007-2008: Post-doctoral Fellow (SNF), Institut de Mathématique, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

      • 2009-2011: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow ("Marie Curie" Intra European Fellowship), Laboratoire de Mathématique, Université Paris-Sud 11, France.

      • 2013-2014: Researcher (Mokslo darbuotojas), Vilniaus Universiteto Matematikos ir Informatikos Institutas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University), Vilnius, Lithuania.

      • 2014-2019: Senior Researcher (Vyresnysis mokslo darbuotojas), Vilniaus Universiteto Matematikos ir Informatikos Institutas, Vilnius, Lithuania.

      • From 2019: Senior Researcher (Vyresnysis mokslo darbuotojas), Vilniaus Universiteto Duomenų mokslo ir skaitmeninių technologijų institutas (Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies of Vilnius University), Vilnius, Lithuania.


Research Fields

      • Geometric Group Theory: discrete groups, quasi-isometries, geometric properties of groups, asymptotic topology of groups and manifolds, ends, lattices in Lie groups, topological groups.

      • Low-dimensional Topology and Geometric Topology: topological tameness conditions, simple connectivity at infinity, geometric simple connectivity, quasi-simple filtration, Tucker property, proper homotopy invariants, (Poenaru's) inverse-representations, singularities.

      • Group Theory: finite groups, locally-compact groups, probability in group theory, commutativity degree, subgroup commutativity degree.


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