About
I am a visiting postdoc at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of the University of Cambridge.
Research Interests
Partial differential equations arising in differential geometry and mathematical physics. Exterior differential systems, projective geometry.
Articles
| 07 | Two-dimensional gradient Ricci solitons revisited (with Jacob Bernstein), preprint (2013) |
| 06 | Characterizing classical minimal surfaces via a new meromorphic quadratic differential (with Jacob Bernstein), preprint (2013) |
| 05 | Local embeddability of real analytic path geometries, Differential Geom. Appl. 30 (2012), 222-226 | 04 | Reduction of beta-integrable 2-Segre structures, to appear in Comm. Anal. Geom. 21 (2013) |
| 03 | Soliton solutions of the mean curvature flow and minimal hypersurfaces (with Norbert Hungerbühler), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 140 (2012), 2117-2126 |
| 02 | Weyl metrisability for projective surfaces, preprint (2010) |
| 01 | Charges of twisted branes: the exceptional cases (with Stefan Fredenhagen, Matthias Gaberdiel), J. High Energy Phys. 58 (2005) |
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Personal data
| Citizenship: | Swiss |
Education
| Ph.D. (Dr. sc. math.) |
| Fall 2010, Mathematics Department, University of Fribourg |
| Advisor: Norbert Hungerbühler |
| Thesis: On the Weyl metrisability problem for projective surfaces and related topics |
| M.Sc. (Dipl. Phys.) |
| Spring 2005, Physics Department, ETH Zürich |
| Advisor: Matthias Gaberdiel |
| Thesis: D-Brane charges in WZW models |
Academic employment
| SNF Advanced Researcher Fellowship |
| January 2013 to December 2013 |
| DAMTP, University
of Cambridge (January-June)
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford (July-December) |
| ETH Zürich Postdoctoral Fellow |
| July 2012 to December 2012 |
| Institute for Mathematical Research and Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich |
| MSRI Postdoctoral Fellow |
| September 2011 to June 2012 |
| Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley |
| SNF Prospective Researcher Fellowship |
| September 2010 to August 2011 |
| Mathematics Department, University of California at Berkeley |
| Assistant |
| April 2006 to August 2010 |
| Mathematics Department, University of Fribourg |
