Jagna Wiśniewska

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Augsburg University with Urs Frauenfelder. My field of research is at the intersection of Differential Geometry, Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Physics, such as Symplectic Geometry, Hamiltonian Dynamics and Floer Theory. I specialize in the analysis of autonomous Hamiltonian systems with non-compact energy level sets using the modern methods of Rabinowitz Floer homology. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher with Will Merry at ETH Zurich, and later on, with Eva Miranda at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. I received my PhD in 2017 from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam under Federica Pasquotto.

My research for non-mathematicians

In 2019 I took part in the GoMath project which was organized by ETH Zurich and dedicated to women in mathematics. As a part of the project I was asked what fascinates me in my research and why I pursue a career in mathematics. I also explained the main principles of my research using the flow of chocolate on doughnuts of different shape. The results have been captured in the following video:

In the following interview Chocolate, satellites and the beauty of mathematics I explain in more detail how mathematics relates the flow of chocolate on doughnuts with the orbits of satellites in the gravitational field of heavenly bodies.

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