Federica Pasquotto

Mathematical Institute
Leiden University
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden
E-mail: f dot pasquotto at math dot leidenuniv dot nl

Research

My research interests revolve around symplectic topology and include: applications to Hamiltonian and Reeb dynamics, differential topology of orbifolds, symplectic topology of algebraic singularities.

Workshops and seminars

• Together with Alvaro del Pino Gomez (UU) and Thomas Rot (VU) I organize the Dutch Differential Topology and Geometry Seminar (DDT&G)

Publications

• Symplectic cohomology of quasihomogeneous cA_n sigularities, with Aline Zanardini and Nikolas Adaloglou,Math. Z. (2026).
• On the transitivity of the group of orbifold diffeomorphisms, with Thomas Rot, Transformation Groups (2023).
• Degree theory for orbifolds., joint with Thomas Rot, Topology Appl. 282 (2020).
• Rabinowitz Floer Homology for Tentacular Hamiltonians, with R. C. Vandervorst and Jagna Wiśniewska, International Mathematics Research Notices (2020).
• Bounds for tentacular Hamiltonians. with Jagna Wiśniewska , Journal of Topology and Analysis, Vol. 12, No. 01, pp. 209-265 (2020).
• On periodic orbits in cotangent bundles of non-compact manifolds., with Jan Bouwe van den Berg, Thomas Rot, and Rob Vandervorst, Journal of Symplectic Geometry 14 (nr. 4), pp. 1145-1173 (2016).
• A short history of the Weinstein Conjecture, Jahresber. Dtsch. Math. Ver. 114, pp. 119-130 (2012).
• Closed characteristics on non-compact hypersurfaces in R²ⁿ, with Jan Bouwe van den Berg and Rob Vandervorst, Math. Ann. 343, 247 (2009).
• Desingularisation of orbifolds obtained from symplectic reduction at generic coadjoint orbits, with Klaus Niederkrüger, Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN, no. 23, Art. ID rnp95, pp. 4463-4479 (2009).
• Resolution of symplectic cyclic orbifold singularities , with Klaus Niederkrüger, J. of Symplectic Geom. 7, no. 3, pp. 337-355 (2009).
• A formula for the Chern classes of symplectic blow-ups , with Hansjoerg Geiges , J. London Math. Soc. (2) 76 (2007), 313-330.
• Symplectic geography in dimension 8, Manuscripta Math. 116, pp. 341-355 (2005).

Teaching

• In 2026-27 I will be teaching Analyse 2 voor Natuurkunde (spring term) and supervising the Bachelorseminarium. More information about these courses is available via Brightspace.

Former PhD Students

• Nikolas Adaloglou (2025)
• Jagna Wiśniewska (2017)
• Thomas Rot (2014)