I am a BOFZAP Research Professor (Hoogleraar) at the Department of Mathematics in the Algebra and Geometry Group at Ghent University.

Before joining the Ghent faculty, I was a Reader at the University of Bristol and an EPSRC Early Career Fellow. I also have an affiliation with the University of Tromsø, as an Adjunct Professor II. 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 Ghent University's BOF Special Research Fund. Previously, it was supported by the EPSRC.

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, industrial engineering 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.

Upcoming Conferences:

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

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

• Mathematics and Data, Research School, co-organised with Philippe Moustrou, Cordian Riener, and Hugues Verdure at University of Tromsø, Norway

Upcoming Online Talks:

• 2021.06: Talk at the Virtual Workshop Positive geometries for scattering amplitudes and beyond, MITP, Mainz, Germany.

• 2021.05: Talk at the Virtual Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Aspects of Polytopes, Western AMS Sectional Meeting, USA.

• 2021.02: Seminar talk on The Geometry of Conditional Independence Models, Algebraic Statistics Online Seminar, Germany.

• 2021.01: Seminar talk on The Amplituhedron and Positive Geometries, Algebraic and Combinatorial Perspectives in the Mathematical Sciences (ACPMS), Norway.

• 2021.01: Mini-course on Tropical Geometry: Theory and Applications, Winter School on Geometric Constraint Systems, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Canada.

• 2020.11: Talk on Tropical Geometry and Data Science, Tropical Geometry Reading Seminar, UK.

• 2020.11: Seminar talk on The Amplituhedron and Positive Geometries, Nonlinear Algebra Seminar Online (NASO), MPI Leipzig, Germany.

Current Weekly Seminars:

• Reading Seminars: Toric Geometry at Ghent University, 2021

• Ghent Junior Algebra and Geometry Seminars at Ghent University, 2021

• Weakly Research Seminars: Ghent Algebra and Geometry at Ghent University, 2021

Past Employments:

• 2020.03 - 2021.04: BOFZAP Research Professor (Hoofddocent), Ghent University

• 2019.08 - 2020.02: Reader in Pure Mathematics, University of Bristol

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

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

• 2014.11 - 2015.10: IST Fellow working with Caroline Uhler

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

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

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

Academic Service:

• Since 2021: FWO project panel member in Mathematical Sciences

• Since 2018: Reviewer for proposals submitted to EPSRC (UK), ICMS (UK) and DFG (Germany)

• Since 2020: Editorial board, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics

• 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