🥰 Winter 2026: mid December: I will be visiting my collaborators in IMAR Romania  from Home.

🥰Summer 2026: 3 months visit to Max Planck Institute of Mathematics, Leipzig  group of Professor Bernd Sturmfels, 

🥰 My sister Laura Dumitrescu (Fairfield University)  

Current Position:

• Associate Professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Algebra, Geometry and Topology AGT group

• Researcher at IMAR: Institute of Mathematics in Bucharest, Romanian Academy: Differential Geometry and Algebraic Topology group

Research Directions:

• Hitchin systems and Enumerative Geometry: Ribbon Graphs, TQFT, Moduli of Opers, and quantum curves, Topological Recursion.

• Algebraic geometry, Birational geometry

• p-adic geometry.  with my graduate students.

Current students (UNC):  Graduate and Undergraduate students

Kexuan Yang - p-adic geometry and Mathematical Physics. (Expected PhD 2027)

Kexuan  has an undergraduate degree in physics and his strenght is Analysis. 

• Sebastian Filner -  Hitchin Theory, Moduli of K3 surfaces, 3rd year - supervised with Justin Sawon. (Expected PhD 2029)

• James Hutchinson III - Geometry and Physics of Habiro Rings, 1st year,  supervised with Justin Sawon.(Expected PhD 2031)

Undergraduate students

• Yuqian Zhang (final year) - birational geometry -

• Matias Carl Relyea 2nd year-- birational geometry, Mori Theori --

• Robert Lake  -  1st year Physics student - : Resurgence in Habiro Rings.

Former UNC Graduate Students:

• Ph. D Fall 2024  William Davis  - - Frobenius-like algebras, colored ribbon graphs and Extensions of TQFTs --

During his studies William received an UNC University award 2024, a Research Stay in MPIM Bonn 2023 and Math Departmental Award 2022.

William has been an Adjunct Teaching Assistant Professor in UNC, Chapel Hill until 2025.

• M.Sc  May 2025 Angela East -- Asymptotic Expansions in Habiro rings --

Angela is currently an UNC graduate student and a Math Instructor in the Central Carolina Community College.

• M. Sc: Spring 2022 Robert Reed Hubbard  --Oper Moduli -- 

Reed is a Math Instructor in North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham. He was the Department Chair in NCSSM, Morganton. 

Recent Talks

• Joint Mathematics Meetings 2027 Chicago Higgs Bundles, Character Varieties, and Moduli Spaces, Jan. 12–15 - R. Moraru L.Schaposnik 

• Moduli and Friends II, Institute of Mathematics of Romanian Academy, Aug 2026 - Cristina Angel, Martin Palmer, Anca Macinic, Geoffoy Horel.

• Max Planck Institute of Mathematics, Leipzig, May 2026.

• Women in Commutative Algebra ICMS 2026 - Edinburgh, 20--26 July 2026 - Group leader with Elisa Postinghel.

• University of Hannover - November 2025 -  Isabel Stenger.

• Modern Musings on Monopoles, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics - October 2025.

• Quantization and Lagrangians, UI Chicago: September 2025 ( by Laura Schaposnik).