I am a Professor (Hoogleraar) at the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science at KU Leuven. Prior to joining KU Leuven, I was a tenured BOFZAP Professor (Hoogleraar) at Ghent University, and before that, a Reader at the University of Bristol and an EPSRC Early Career Fellow. Since 2018, I have been an EPSRC Full College Member and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

My research is currently supported by the FWO (Flanders Research Foundation) and KU Leuven iBOF grant. Previously, it was partially supported by U. Ghent's BOF professorship, the UK EPSRC, and the London Mathematical Society (LMS).

My research lies in Applied Algebraic Geometry. In particular, I am interested in developing computational tools to study problems in statistics and probability theory, theoretical computer science, mathematical optimization, and quantum physics. On the theoretical side, I work on toric degenerations, combinatorial divisor theory, matroid and determinantal varieties, tensors, conditional probabilities, graphical models, and system reliability theory.

News:

• PhD positions available in my research group at KU Leuven funded by the FWO Odysseus grant and the KU Leuven iBOF grant. 

• Postdoc positions available (in numerical algebraic geometry) in my research group at KU Leuven. 

• Workshop for Women in Algebraic Statistics at the University of Oxford, organised by Jane Ivy Coons. Application form is now open!

• Internships positions available for undergraduate/master students. See this link for more details.

• Reading Seminars on Polynomial Systems and Tensors: Algebra and Geometry, 2023. Please feel free to join us.

• Spring 2023: I am currently teaching a master course on "Foundations of Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry" February-May 2023. 

• Fall 2023: I will be teaching a course on "Complex Analysis and Approximation Theory" starting September 2023.

Upcoming and Recent Organised Conferences and Workshops:

• 2023.09: Invitation to Algebraic Statistics and Applications, Workshop, part of the Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World, the IMSI, USA

• 2023.08: Mathematical Methods in System Reliability, co-organised with Eduardo Sáenz-de-Cabezón and Henry Wynn at ICIAM 2023, Japan

• 2023.07: Nonlinear Algebra in Particle Physics Minisymposium, co-organised with Simon Telen at SIAM AG23, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

• 2023.06: Groups, Rings, and the Yang Baxter Equation, co-organiser, Blankenberge, Belgium

• 2022.12: Toric Degenerations, Workshop, co-organised with Lara Bossinger, Alessio Corti and Megumi Harada at Banff Research Station, Canada

• 2022.11: Tensors in statistics, optimization and machine learning, Workshop, co-organised with Francesco Galuppi, Luca Sodomaco at IMPAN, Poland

• 2021.06: MEGA Conference: Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry at University of Tromsø, Norway

Past Employments:

• 2021.09 - 2022.07: BOFZAP Full Professor (Hoogleraar), tenured at Ghent University, Belgium

• 2020.03 - 2021.08: BOFZAP Associate Professor (Hoofddocent), tenured at Ghent University, Belgium

• 2019.08 - 2020.02: Reader (Associate Professor) in Pure Mathematics, tenured at University of Bristol, UK

• 2017.01 - 2019.08: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Pure Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK

• 2015.10 - 2017.01: Postdoctoral Researcher within the Einstein project in Bernd Sturmfels group at Technical University Berlin, Germany

• 2014.11 - 2015.10: IST Fellow working with Caroline Uhler at IST Austria, Austria

• 2013.11 - 2014.08: Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at Osnabrück University, Germany, working with Winfried Bruns

• 2012.07 - 2013.10: Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the Philipps University Marburg, Germany, working with Volkmar Welker

• 2011.09 - 2012.06: Postdoctoral Researcher at MSRI, Berkeley, US, under the supervision of Hélène Barcelo

Editorial Boards:

• Since 2022.05: Associate Editor, Journal of Symbolic Computation 

• Since 2022.01: Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (SIAGA)

• Since 2020.01: Associate Editor, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics

• 2021 - 2022: Guest Editor, Special Issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on the occasion of MEGA 2021

Scientific Committees:

• Since 2022: Member of Scientific Advisory Board of the MEGA Conference on Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry

• 2022.02: Program committee member, The 17th MEGA Conference on Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry: MEGA 2022

• 2022.01: Scientific committee member, Combinatorial Commutative Algebra Summer School, Gebze Technical University, Turkey 

• 2021.06: Committee member, The 16th MEGA Conference on Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry: MEGA 2021

• 2018.07: Committee member, The 30th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics: FPSAC 2018

Academic Service:

• 2021 - 2022: FWO project panel member in Mathematical Sciences, Belgium

• Since 2018: Reviewer for proposals submitted to EPSRC (UK), ICMS (UK), and DFG (Germany), GACR (Czechia), ISTA postdoc program (Austria)