Marco Antei (born 1978,
Sanremo
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) is an Italian mathematician and
LGBT
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+ activist.
Career
Antei was awarded his PhD in mathematics in 2008 from the
University of Lille
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under the supervision of Michel Emsalem. He later worked at the
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
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and forms part of the Max Planck Society (''Max-Planck-Gesellschaft''), an association o ...
in
Bonn
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, the
KAIST
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in
Daejeon
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, the
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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in
Beersheba
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, the
Côte d'Azur University
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in
Nice
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. He has been lecturer at
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
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since 2022. Antei studies within the field of geometry. His areas of interest in research focus on algebraic and arithmetic geometry, and applications. He particularly studies the
fundamental group scheme In mathematics, the fundamental group scheme is a group scheme canonically attached to a scheme over a Dedekind scheme (e.g. the spectrum of a field or the spectrum of a discrete valuation ring). It is a generalisation of the étale fundamental gro ...
,
torsors and their connections.
The fundamental group scheme
The existence of the fundamental group scheme was conjectured by
Alexander Grothendieck
Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French (; ; ; 28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014), was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research ext ...
, while the first proof of its existence is due, for schemes defined over fields, to
Madhav Nori.
Antei, Michel Emsalem and Carlo Gasbarri proved the existence of the
fundamental group scheme In mathematics, the fundamental group scheme is a group scheme canonically attached to a scheme over a Dedekind scheme (e.g. the spectrum of a field or the spectrum of a discrete valuation ring). It is a generalisation of the étale fundamental gro ...
for
schemes defined over Dedekind schemes and they also defined, and proved the existence of, the ''quasi-finite fundamental group scheme''
.
Award
In 2020 Antei received the ''Innovating professor'' award at the
University of Costa Rica
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, for being able to move from in presence classes to virtual classes, at the beginning of the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, in the best possible way. The awarded professors have been selected by the students of the
UCR.
Activism
Antei stands out for his commitment in the fight for the rights of the LGBT+ community. In particular in 2015 he created the first LGBT+ association in the
province of Imperia
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, subsidiary of the national association
Arcigay, and he has been president of it until 2018, then again since 2023. During his mandate he also organized in November 2016 the first
Transgender Day of Remembrance
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in the city of
Sanremo
Sanremo, also spelled San Remo in English and formerly in Italian, is a (municipality) on the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, in northwestern Italy. Founded in Roman times, it has a population of 55,000, and is known as a tourist destination ...
. In 2020, he was featured in a remote meeting with
European Commission
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President
Ursula von der Leyen
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where the rights of LGBT+ people within the European Union were discussed
References
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20th-century Italian mathematicians
21st-century Italian mathematicians
Living people
University of Lille Nord de France alumni
Italian LGBTQ rights activists
1978 births