Michael Alexander Daas

After completing my bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics and my master's degree in mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, I obtained my doctorate degree at Leiden University in the fall of 2024, under the supervision of Jan Vonk.
My main research is in algebraic number theory. 

I worked for one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn under mentorship of Pieter Moree and Don Zagier. Since September 2026, I have been a postdoc in the research group of Gabor Wiese at the University of Luxembourg. 

My main research interests are p-adic analogues of the work by Gross and Zagier. More precisely, I study Galois deformations and use these to explicitly compute the q-expansions of the derivative of cuspidal families of p-adic Hilbert modular forms. This approach resembles recent advancements in the newly developed p-adic approach to singular moduli for real quadratic fields using rigid meromorphic cocycles by Henri Darmon and Jan Vonk. 

My work has the potential to refine existing results in CM theory by finding explicit formulas for the CM values of modular functions on Shimura curves beyond their norms. In addition, I am interested in the emerging p-adic Kudla program and intend to relate my work to p-adic height pairings on Shimura curves. It is one of my main interests to further strengthen the connection between classical CM-theory and the emerging p-adic RM-theory and the theory of rigid meromorphic cocycles. 

Email: daas at the domain mpim-bonn.mpg.de

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