Academic Career
since 2024 W2 Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum, DE
2023 – 2024 Assistant Professor, later Associate Professor, at Durham University, UK
2022 – 2023 DFG Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Regensburg, DE
funded through a DFG individual research grant (project number 505125645)
2020 – 2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Regensburg, DE
member of the research group of Dr L. Lewark
2018 – 2020 Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow at UBC, CA
member of the research group of Dr L. T. Watson
2017 – 2018 CIRGET Postdoctoral Student at the Université de Sherbrooke, CA
member of the research group of Dr L. T. Watson
2017 Postdoctoral Visitor at the Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
2013 – 2017 PhD studies at DPMMS, University of Cambridge, UK
PhD thesis: On a Heegaard Floer theory for tangles
supervisor: Dr J. A. Rasmussen
2012 – 2013 Part III of the Mathematical Tripos
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, UK
Essay: Khovanov stable homotopy, supervisor: Dr J. A. Rasmussen
Master of Advanced Studies (MASt)
2010 – 2012 Undergraduate studies in mathematics (major) and physics (minor)
University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, DE
Bachelor’s thesis: On the Milnor fibration, supervisor: Prof. G. Hein
Bachelor’s degree (BSc)