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I study mathematical aspects of conformal field theories via vertex operator algebras and their representation theory. I'm currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Hamburg in the Collaborative Research Center 1624: "Higher Structures, Moduli Spaces and Integrability". Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Institute at the Australian National University working with James Tener, and at Université Laval working with Michael Lau. Before that, I did my PhD at The University of Queensland under the supervision of Jørgen Rasmussen and David Ridout.

I study representation theory of vertex operator algebras relevant in logarithmic conformal field theories. Examples of such VOAs are fractional admissible level affine VOAs and their associated W-algebras. Recently, I've been interested in the techniques known broadly as "inverse quantum hamiltonian reduction." I am also interested in the relationship between VOAs and conformal nets as axiomatic descriptions of conformal field theory; and the VOAs and related structures that arise in higher-dimensional quantum field theories.

My email is christopher dot raymond at uni-hamburg dot de 

A copy of my CV (reasonably up-to-date).