Junyan Zhao's webpage

I am currently a postdoc at the University of Maryland, College Park, mentored by Dori Bejleri and Patrick Brosnan. I am on the job market in Fall 2026.

Ph.D. (2020 - 2024), Dept. of MSCS, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA

B.S. (2016 - 2020), Dept. of Math. (with Honors), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Email: jzhao81 [at] umd [dot] edu

Research interests: I work on moduli of higher dimensional varieties, largely in the Minimal Model Program — K-moduli of Fano varieties, KSBA moduli of canonically polarized varieties, moduli of Calabi-Yau varieties, and the fibration moduli that connect them. I also worked on classical projective geometry, including moduli of sheaves on surfaces, hyperbolicity and (ir)rationality problems.

What's new:

I am organizing a o-minimality learning seminar in Fall 2026 with D. Bejleri.

In 2026-27, I am also co-organizing the UMD AG Seminar with D. Bejleri and A. Gholampour. 

From July 12-16, 2027, D. Bejleri and I will organize a summer school on Compactification of moduli spaces of varieties at the Brin center.