Hi, I'm Pablo (he/him/his). I'm a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, under the supervision of Alex Zupan (IMDb). Before that, I was an undergrad student at Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
I have a hard time counting to more than 4 and I love drawing pictures, which directed my attention to low dimensional objects like 3 and 4-manifolds.
I am interested in working with Handlebody decompositions of three and four-manifolds. I would like to tackle problems involving the classification of 4-manifolds. Potentially combining trisections and knot theory to understand knotted surfaces.
This semester (Spring 2026) I'm organizing a learning seminar on Mapping Class Groups with Julia Courtney.
In my free time I like to run (currently training for the Chicago Marathon), I do Photography (I was supposed to be a film major, but not on this timeline), I read and I make math memes/document the online math scene for a somewhat famous (among the Gen Z-ers) Instagram math memepage.