Raffaella Mulas earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Udine (Italy) and her master's degree at the University of Bonn(Germany). From 2017 to 2020 she was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institutefor Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Germany) under the supervision of Jürgen Jost. From 2020 to 2021, she held a postdoctoral position at the Alan Turing Institute in London (UK). Then, she was awarded a Minerva FastTrack Fellowship by the Max Planck Society, and she moved back to the MaxPlanck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences to establish her own research group. In 2023, she then joined the Department of Mathematics at VU Amsterdam as an Assistant Professor. Raffaella is also an Elected Member of the Inaugural Cohort of the European Mathematical Society Young Academy(EMYA).
Research focus
Her research focuses on the study of graphs and hypergraphs, and she is mainly interested in spectral theory, combinatorics, non-backtracking operators, and applications to network science.