Agnese Barbensi

I joined the Theoretical Systems Biology Group at the University of Melbourne as a postdoctoral researcher in November 2021. My research interests include topological approaches to the study biological data. Most of my research so far has been focused on characterising the geometry and topology of long, entangled biopolymers, and in understanding the interplay between their shape and biological function.

I completed a Bachelor and Master degrees in pure mathematics at the University of Pisa. I received a DPhil in mathematics at the University of Oxford in May 2020, under the supervision of Prof D. Buck, Prof H.A. Harrington and Prof M. Lackenby, with a thesis entitled “Knot theory and entanglement in biopolymers”.

Currently, I am interested in combining topological data analysis techniques with tools from computational knot theory and low-dimensional topology to characterise the folded structure, dynamics and 3D organisation of biopolymers.

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