I am a fifth-year graduate student in mathematics at Brown University. My advisors are Melody Chan and Bernd Sturmfels. Before this, I was an undergraduate student in mathematics and computer science at Harvard University.

I study combinatorial algebraic geometry. I am interested in toroidal compactifications of moduli spaces that appear in the framework of Shimura varieties, such as the moduli of abelian varieties and K3s. I also like to think about moduli of curves and their relations to positive geometries from particle physics.

Here is my CV.

I will be on the postdoc job market during Fall 2026.

Contact: raluca_vlad [at] brown [dot] edu

Address: Kassar House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912