Overview
Background
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.
Availability
- Dr Agnese Barbensi is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Maths, University of Oxford
Research interests
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Applied and computational knot theory
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Topological Data Analysis
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Computational topology
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(Hyper)network theory
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Knotted polymers
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Topology in soft and biological matter
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
2024
Journal Article
GridPyM: a Python module to handle grid diagrams
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
2023
Journal Article
Homology of homologous knotted proteins
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) 20220727, 1-8. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0727
2022
Journal Article
Double branched covers of knotoids
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
2021
Journal Article
A topological selection of folding pathways from native states of knotted proteins
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) 1670, 1-17. doi: 10.3390/sym13091670
2021
Journal Article
f -distance of knotoids and protein structure
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) 20200898, 1-18. doi: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0898
2020
Journal Article
The Reidemeister graph is a complete knot invariant
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
2020
Journal Article
Grid diagrams as tools to investigate knot spaces and topoisomerase-mediated simplification of DNA topology
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) eaay1458, 1-8. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay1458
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