Naageswaran Manikandan

I am a PhD student working under Prof. Dr. Chris Wendl at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, affliated to Berlin Mathematical School (BMS). 

My doctoral research centers on symplectic and low-dimensional topology. In symplectic topology, my work is focused on understanding properties and applications of punctured pseudoholomorphic curves to gain insights into contact 3-manifolds and symplectic 4-manifolds. In low dimentional topology, I work on knot theory, particularly Khovanov homology and related theories.

I obtained my masters degree in mathematics from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, affliated to Berlin Mathematical School (BMS). I worked with Prof. Dr. Chris Wendl on the intersection theory of punctured psedoholomorphic curves for my thesis.