About me

Hello! I am an applied mathematician working at the intersection of graph theory, geometry and linear algebra with a strong interest in applications. Currently, I am part of the Nonlinear Algebra group of Prof. Bernd Sturmfels at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig.

Research

My research revolves around graphs and their applications. During my PhD, I studied the concept of effective resistance and how it captures the geometry of graphs. Currently, I am interested in related questions in the context of matroids, polytopes, tropical geometry and algebraic statistics, using tools from nonlinear algebra.

I have worked on applications such as power grid robustness, network epidemics and polarization in social networks. 

News & Travels

• New preprint with Eric Boniface & Serkan Hoşten: "Tropical toric maximum likelihood estimation" (link) 

• New preprint with Michelle Roost, Giulio Zucal & Jürgen Jost: "Exploring the space of graphs with fixed discrete curvatures" (link)

• New preprint with Hannah Friedman & Bernd Sturmfels: "The two lives of the Grassmannian" (link)

• [3/05 - 4/05] I will attend the ALTOGELIS day 2024 workshop at MPI-CBG Dresden

• [14/05] I will give a talk at the Machine Learning & Massive Data Analysis seminar at Centre Borelli, ENS Paris-Saclay

• [13/05 - 17/05] I will attend the Combininatorial Algebraic Geometry from Physics conference at MPI Leipzig

• [28/05 - 30/05] I will give a talk at Computers in Scientific Discovery conference at KULAK

• [27/06] I will give a talk at the Discrete Geometry and Topological Combinatorics seminar at FU Berlin