Ciro Ciliberto has been a full professor of higher geometry at the University of Roma “Tor Vergata”. Recently, he retired and kept the honorary position of “Docens Turris Virgatae” at the same university. His research fields are algebraic geometry and history of mathematics. He published more than 200 research papers, most of them in top scientific journals, and various books. He spent several research stays abroad, he has been invited to give talks to several international conferences and he is the editor of various scientific journals. Among his hobbies, there are painting and writing.
