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email: p.safronov [at] ed.ac.uk

I am a Reader at the University of Edinburgh. Previously I was a lecturer at the University of Zurich,  postdoc at the University of Geneva, MPIM Bonn and Oxford. Before that I was a graduate student of David Ben-Zvi at UT Austin.

My interests lie at the intersection of representation theory, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. Currently I am interested in problems involving quantum groups, derived Poisson structures and supersymmetric field theories (see the Research page for more information).

Curriculum Vitae.

In my free time I like to play piano.

PhD students:

• Tudor-Ioan Caba (2024-).

• Lucy Spouncer (2024-), joint with Clark Barwick.

• Theodoros Lagiotis (2021-).

• Šarūnas Kaubrys (2021-), joint with Ben Davison.

• Patrick Kinnear (2020-2024), joint with David Jordan: Skein theoretic topological quantum field theories associated to quantum groups.

• Artem Kalmykov (2017-2021): Geometric and categorical approaches to dynamical representation theory, link.