I'm a postdoc at the Centre for Geometry and Topology, University of Copenhagen. I was a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow from April 2024 to March 2026, funded by the European Union.

I received my Ph.D. at MIT in July 2023. My advisor was Haynes Miller and I was coadvised by Jeremy Hahn. Before that I was an undergrad at MIT. Here is my cv.

I'm broadly interested in stable homotopy theory and its applications to manifold theory. Most recently I have been studying the interaction between synthetic, chromatic, and equivariant stable homotopy theory, as well as understanding extended topological field theories and their local-to-global principles.

Email: yz at math dot ku dot dk