About me

Hello! My name is Michael Wills, and I'm a 5th year PhD candidate at the University of Virginia, advised by Evangelia Gazaki. I am interested in arithmetic geometry, and more specifically in local-to-global principles. I'm currently working with zero-cycles on abelian varieties, and enjoy explicit constructions.

I am currently on the job market.

Previously, I was at Virginia Tech working with Gretchen Matthews on problems in coding theory and with Travis Morrison on problems related to isogeny-based cryptography.

While not doing math, I enjoy reading, good food, and walking (usually with a podcast; current fave is "The History of English").