BOFZAP Full Professor (Hoogleraar)
Department of Mathematics at Ghent University
Address: Krijgslaan 281, S12, Ghent 9000, Belgium
Phone: +32 09 264 45 34
Email: first_name.last_name@ugent.be
Profiles: ORCID, arXiv, Google Scholar, MathSciNet, linkedIn
I am a tenured BOFZAP Full 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 a 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 partially supported by 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, 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.
News:
A UiT Aurora Center for Mathematical Structures in Computations (MASCOT)
Lie-Størmer Center for Fundamental Structures in Computational and Pure Mathematics
Several PhD and postdoctoral research positions available in my group. See here and also Mathjobs.
Weekly Reading Seminars: Real Algebraic Geometry.
Weekly Reading Seminars: Combinatorial Hodge Theory.
Weekly Algebra and Geometry Seminars.
MEGA Conference:
Please submit your excellent works to JSC-MEGA2021 (Special Issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on the occasion of MEGA 2021).
MEGA Conference: Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry at University of Tromsø, Norway
Upcoming and Recent Organised Conferences and Workshops:
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
2020.09: Mathematics and Data, Research School, Tromsø, Norway (postponed to 2022-2023)
Upcoming and Recent Talks:
2022.10: Workshop on Solving Polynomial Equations and Applications, CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022.05: Bridges between representation theory and algebraic geometry: Singularities, friezes and cluster categories, U. Leeds, UK
2022.05: CMSA Interdisciplinary Science Seminar, Harvard's Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Cambridge, USA
2022.04: Nonlinear Algebra and Combinatorics from Physics, Harvard's Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Cambridge, USA
2022.03: Combinatorial Coworkspace, Austria
2022.03: Brown Combinatorics Seminar, Brown University, USA
2022.03: Selected Topics in Mathematics, Liverpool, UK
2022.02: Representation and Number Theory Seminars, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2022.02: Seminar on Pure Mathematics, HKUST, Hong Kong
2022.01: Virtual Commutative Algebra Seminars, IIT Bombay, India
2021.12: Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting (virtual), Canada
2021.11: Algebra and Geometry Seminar, Queen's University, Canada
2021.11: Facets of CACAAG: Seminar on Combinatorial Aspects of Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, IIT Bombay, India
2021.11: Online Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Nottingham, UK
2021.10: Combinatorics Study Group at QMUL, London, UK
2021.10: Conference on Newton-Okounkov bodies and Fanosearch, Levico Terme, Trento, Italy
2021.09: MFO-RIMS Tandem Workshop: Symmetries on Polynomial Ideals and Varieties, Oberwolfach, Germany
2021.06: Virtual Workshop Positive geometries for scattering amplitudes and beyond, MITP, Mainz, Germany
2021.05: Virtual Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Aspects of Polytopes, Western AMS Sectional Meeting, USA
2021.05: Colloquium Talk, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences and Computer, Kharazmi University, Iran
2021.04: Seminar Talk on Introduction to Tropical Algebra, Quantum Group at UGent, Belgium
2021.02: The Geometry of Conditional Independence Models, Algebraic Statistics Online Seminar, Germany
2021.01: 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: Tropical Geometry and Data Science, Tropical Geometry Reading Seminar, UK
2020.11: The Amplituhedron and Positive Geometries, Nonlinear Algebra Seminar Online (NASO), MPI Leipzig, Germany
Selected one-week Research Meetings:
2022.03: Toric Geometry Workshop, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, Germany
2021.09: MFO-RIMS Tandem Workshop: Symmetries on Polynomial Ideals and Varieties, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, Germany
2021.06: Virtual Workshop for Women in Shape Analysis (WiSH3), Casa Matemática Oaxaca (CMO), Mexico
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 Associate Professor (Hoofddocent), tenured at Ghent University
2019.08 - 2020.02: Reader (Associate Professor) 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
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 2021: Guest Editor, Special Issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on the occasion of MEGA 2021
Since 2020.01: Associate Editor, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics
Scientific Committees:
Since 2022.02: Program committee member, The 17th MEGA Conference on Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry: MEGA 2022
Since 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:
Since 2021: FWO project panel member in Mathematical Sciences, Belgium
Since 2018: Reviewer for proposals submitted to EPSRC (UK), ICMS (UK), and DFG (Germany)