Konstantinos Kavvadias 

I am a Postodoctoral Associate in the Department of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. My position is funded by the Simons Collaboration grant on Probabilistic Paths to Quantum Field Theory.

Before coming to NYU, I was a C.L.E. Moore Instructor at MIT Mathematics Department. Before coming to the United States,  I obtained my PhD at University of Cambridge Mathematics Department (DPMMS) in 2023 under the supervision of Jason Miller. I also did Part III in DPMMS during the academic year 2017-2018. Previously I did my undergrad in the Department of Mathematics in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 

My research focuses on the intersection between complex analysis and probability. I am particularly interested in problems related to conformal welding and conformal removability. Moreover I study geometric objects which arise in statistical mechanics such as Random Planar Maps (RPM), Schramm-Loewner Evolution (SLE), Conformal Loop Ensembles (CLE) and the Gaussian Free Field (GFF). I am also interested in random surfaces and especially Liouville Quantum Gravity (LQG) surfaces and its properties (e.g., metric space structure, geodesic structure etc) and their higher-dimensional analogues. Another long term aspect of my research is to understand deeper relationships between RPM-SLE-LQG-GFF. Finally I am very interested in continuing to explore how concepts in complex analysis are related to these random geometric objects, e.g., conformal welding of random surfaces (see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.4797 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.7055), conformal removability of SLE (see my recent works https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.10532 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.10857).

I am from Greece, and I grew up in Corfu (see the photo on the home page). When I am not doing math, I enjoy reading books, playing chess, exercising and watching movies from all over the world.

My MIT email address (kavva941@mit.edu) will be active up until January 2027. If you want to contact me, please use my NYU email address: kk6501@nyu.edu.