Dr Agnese Barbensi

Lecturer

Mathematics

+61 7 336 56128

a.barbensi@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

I am an applied and computational topologist; my research is motivated and inspired by real life problems. My main focus is on understanding how shape influences behaviour, which is a common theme arising in the study of many natural systems. I have done my bachelor and master in Pisa (Italy), and my PhD and first postdoc in Oxford (UK). I then moved to Melbourne for my second postdoc, before starting my position at UQ.

Publications

Journal Articles (8)

Journal Articles

Tubiana, Luca, Alexander, Gareth P., Barbensi, Agnese, Buck, Dorothy, Cartwright, Julyan H.E., Chwastyk, Mateusz, Cieplak, Marek, Coluzza, Ivan, Čopar, Simon, Craik, David J., Di Stefano, Marco, Everaers, Ralf, Faísca, Patrícia F.N., Ferrari, Franco, Giacometti, Achille, Goundaroulis, Dimos, Haglund, Ellinor, Hou, Ya-Ming, Ilieva, Nevena, Jackson, Sophie E., Japaridze, Aleksandre, Kaplan, Noam, Klotz, Alexander R., Li, Hongbin, Likos, Christos N., Locatelli, Emanuele, López-León, Teresa, Machon, Thomas, Micheletti, Cristian ... Žumer, Slobodan (2024). Topology in soft and biological matter. Physics Reports, 1075, 1-137. doi: 10.1016/j.physrep.2024.04.002

Barbensi, Agnese and Celoria, Daniele (2024). GridPyM: a Python module to handle grid diagrams. Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry, 14 (1), 31-39. doi: 10.2140/jsag.2024.14.31

Benjamin, Katherine, Mukta, Lamisah, Moryoussef, Gabriel, Uren, Christopher, Harrington, Heather A., Tillmann, Ulrike and Barbensi, Agnese (2023). Homology of homologous knotted proteins. Journal of the Royal Society. Interface, 20 (201) ARTN 20220727, 1-8. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0727

Barbensi, Agnese, Buck, Dorothy, Harrington, Heather A. and Lackenby, Marc (2022). Double branched covers of knotoids. Communications in Analysis and Geometry, 30 (5), 1007-1057. doi: 10.4310/CAG.2022.v30.n5.a3

Barbensi, Agnese, Yerolemou, Naya, Vipond, Oliver, Mahler, Barbara, Dabrowski-Tumanski, Pawel and Goundaroulis, Dimos (2021). A topological selection of folding pathways from native states of knotted proteins. Symmetry, 13 (9) ARTN 1670, 1-17. doi: 10.3390/sym13091670

Barbensi, Agnese and Goundaroulis, Dimos (2021). f -distance of knotoids and protein structure. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 477 (2246) ARTN 20200898, 1-18. doi: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0898

Barbensi, Agnese and Celoria, Daniele (2020). The Reidemeister graph is a complete knot invariant. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, 20 (2), 643-698. doi: 10.2140/agt.2020.20.643

Barbensi, Agnese, Celoria, Daniele, Harrington, Heather A., Stasiak, Andrzej and Buck, Dorothy (2020). Grid diagrams as tools to investigate knot spaces and topoisomerase-mediated simplification of DNA topology. Science Advances, 6 (9) ARTN eaay1458, 1-8. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay1458

Areas of research

Computational geometry and topology

Mathematical biology