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Welcome! I am a PhD student at the Institute of Applied Mathematics in Bonn advised by Eveliina Peltola. I am looking for a postdoc position starting in 2026.

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Office 4.042
Institute of Applied Mathematics
University of Bonn
Endenicher Allee 60
53115 Bonn
Germany

Research interests

Here is a non-exhaustive list of topics I'm interested in:

Constructive approaches to 2D conformal field theory (CFT)
Segal's axioms / functorial CFT, the geometry of the Virasoro algebra
Geometric quantization of (infinite-dimensional) moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces
Conformal invariants, geometric function theory
Generalizations of Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) measures
Universality of critical phenomena in statistical mechanics

Research [arXiv]

Two-loop Loewner potentials
with Yan Luo (2024, submitted) [arXiv]
From the conformal anomaly to the Virasoro algebra
with Eveliina Peltola (2024, submitted) [arXiv]

Talks & More

Nov. 2024	Oberwolfach	Workshop: "Critical phenomena of the XY model" Talk: "Two-loop Loewner potentials"
July 2024	Bonn, Univ.	Stochastic analysis seminar of Prof. Sturm's group Talk: "From the conformal anomaly to the Virasoro algebra"
June. 2024	Bonn, Univ.	BIGS poster session Poster: "Applications of real determinant line bundles"
May 2024	Oberwolfach	Workshop: "Statistical Physics and Random Surfaces" Invited participant
Apr. 2024	Bonn, Univ.	Hausdorff Graduate Colloqium Talk: "An exposition to random conformal geometry"
	Bonn, MPIM	Physical math seminar Talk: "Fundamental aspects of conformal field theory and their mathematical formulations"
Mar. 2024	Hamburg	"Workshop on new directions in conformal field theory" Short talk: "The real determinant line bundle"
Jan. 2024	SwissMAP, Les Diablerets	"2024 Winter school in mathematical physics" Short talk: "The conformal anomaly and Kähler geometry of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces"
June 2023	South Korea	Conference "Random conformal geometry and related fields in Jeju" Invited participant
May 2023	Berlin	Spring school "Three facets of gravity" Poster: "From the conformal anomaly to the Virasoro algebra"
Sept. 2022	Trieste, SISSA	Summer school "From statistical physics to random geometry" Short talk: "From the Weyl anomaly formula to the Virasoro algebra"
June 2022	Helsinki	ICM sattelite conference "Probability and mathematical physics 2022" Poster: "From the Weyl anomaly formula to the Virasoro algebra"
Mar. 2022	Berkeley, MSRI	Program "The analysis and geometry of random spaces" Program associate Talk: "The Liouville action in the setting for Malliavin-Kontsevich-Suhov loop measures" in the learning seminar "The ubiquitous Diff(S¹)"
Jan. 2022	SwissMAP, Les Diablerets	"2022 Winter school in mathematical physics" Short talk: "Real valued 1D genus 0 modular functors for the Weyl anomaly"
Oct. 2021	Online	Reading group organized by Eveliina Peltola Talk: "Real determinant lines and modular functors"
2020	Scholarship	Funded by the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam (DIA) Blog post (Dutch)