Hi there! My name is Max Lahn (they/them). I also go by Maxie. Starting this Fall, I will be an RTG postdoctoral trainee in the Geometry, Group Actions, and Dynamics group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working under Andy Zimmer and Marissa Loving. Broadly speaking, my research interests include higher rank Teichmüller* theory, Anosov representations, and length spectra of hyperbolic surfaces.
I grew up in a small suburb in New York state, but I've also lived in Providence, Rhode Island, where I graduated in the Spring of 2019 with an ScB in Mathematics from Brown University, and in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I graduated in the Spring of 2023 and the Summer of 2025 with an MS and a PhD in Mathematics, respectively, from the University of Michigan. I currently live in Madison, Wisconsin. Here is an incomplete list of things I like and/or am interested in, in no particular order:
Math! (especially geometry & topology)
Teaching & pedagogy! (especially writing as teaching as learning)
Podcasts! (especially serialized fiction & storytelling)
Queer & trans advocacy!
Being outdoors!
If you need to get in touch with me for any reason, my email addresses are maxlahn@gmail.com and mlahn2@wisc.edu. My OpenPGP public keys are available at https://github.com/maxlahn.gpg and https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/4AA8BE1FB46E311181DC6FB83AA250922E71486D.