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.
This work was awarded the 2024-2025 Stieltjesprijs.

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 and refinements of the work by Gross and Zagier. More precisely, I study Galois deformations to compute derivatives 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. 

Mainly, I am interested in the emerging p-adic Kudla program and intend to relate my work to p-adic height pairings on Shimura curves. I intend to strengthen the connection between classical CM theory and the emerging p-adic RM theory through the theory of rigid meromorphic cocycles, and the connection between their special values and the p-adic deformation theory of theta series.

Email: michael.daas at the domain uni.lu

My CV can be found here.