Welcome! I am a Lecturer (assistant professor with tenure) at the School of Mathematics of Cardiff University (Cardiff, Wales). Currently I am also serving as Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
My research interests are in quantum algebra and mathematical physics. Some keywords are: conformal field theory, vertex operator algebras, (modular) tensor categories, matrix factorizations.
How to reach me: 3.66 (Abacws) or email me at roscamachoa at cardiff dot ac dot uk
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9947-203X
(Isca Augusta, Caerleon, Cymru)
News!
May 25th, 2025: my colleague Thomas Woolley and I had some fun discussing several ways his background in mathematics will help Pope Leo XIV in his pontificate, see the result here!
May 19th, 2025: Katrina Barron, Gail Yamskulna and I secured funding from the LMS Inclusion and Diversity Fund to support our `Women in Mathematical Physics 3' workshop!
May 16, 2025: Simon Wood and I organized the 2025 LMS South West and South Wales Regional Meeting and Workshop, and it was a success! We all had great fun together =)
May 7th, 2025: I led the conversation at the AWMP coffee meeting, focused on `Parenting in Academia'.
March 31st, 2025: my protégé Jose Polo Gómez defended very successfully his PhD at the University of Waterloo (Canada)!
December 13th, 2024: I got granted a University Research Leave! It will take place August 1st, 2025-January 31st, 2026.
December 3rd, 2024: my paper with Thomas Wasserman has been published at the Journal of Mathematical Physics! Check it out here.
November 25th, 2024: (now Dr.) Mahdie Hamdan passed successfully his viva! I was his internal examiner.
November 22nd, 2024: I attended the LMS Annual General Meeting and Dinner, where I picked up my Anne Bennett Prize =)
November 19th, 2024: new paper with Hiromu Nakano, Flor Orosz Hunziker and Simon Wood, https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11387 !
October 2nd, 2024: (now Dr.) Tasarla Deadman passed successfully her viva! I was her internal examiner.
September 17th, 2024: I won a LMS Emmy Noether Fellowship! To be held October 1st, 2024-September 30th, 2025.
August 23rd, 2024: Jamal (Shafiq) successfully defended his PhD thesis today!
August 20th, 2024: Sam (Hannah) successfully defended his PhD thesis today!
August 5th, 2024: Katrina Barron, Gail Yamskulna and I secured the research workshop "Women in Mathematical Physics 3" at ICMS (Edinburgh, Scotland)! It will run April 13th-17th, 2026.
August 1st, 2024: I appear at (soon-to-be Dr.) Michela Corradini's PhD thesis acknowledgements =')
June 28th, 2024: I won the 2024 LMS Anne Bennett Prize!
March 28th, 2024: my paper with Sam Hannah has been published at Nuclear Physics, Section B! Check it out here.
March 15th, 2024: the School of Mathematics got awarded an Athena SWAN Silver! We did it!
March 7th, 2024: I appear at Dr. Gayathri Eknath's PhD thesis acknowledgements =')
February 24th, 2024: my paper with Timo Kluck has been published in Beitraege zur Algebra und Geometrie! Check it out here.
February 21st, 2024: Sam (Hannah) won the Cardiff SIAM-IMA Chapter "Bake your thesis 2024" competition, with his bake "Algebra Object Chocolate Hunt".
January 16th, 2024: I got an LMS Caring Supplementary Grant worth 149 GBP!
December 21st, 2023: new paper with Sam Hannah, with an appendix with Devi Young, https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13796 !
November 7th, 2023: back from maternity leave!
October 12th, 2023: my paper with Robert Laugwitz and Sam Hannah has been published in SIGMA! Check it out here.
August 18th, 2023: "Women in Mathematical Physics 2" was a success!
March 29th, 2023: I passed probation (UK English)/I got tenure (US English)!
March 8th, 2023: new paper with Robert Laugwitz and Sam Hannah, https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04493 !
February 20th, 2023: I got awarded "XV Andalusian of the Future"! This prize is sponsored by Grupo Joly and Caixabank, and is worth 6k EUR. More info at: www.andalucesdelfuturo.es (Spanish only).
January 21st, 2023: I am currently on maternity leave! Back to business in November.