Severin Bunk
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I am the Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire, and an Associate Fellow at St Edmund Hall, one of the colleges at the University of Oxford.
My research interests include higher structures in geometry and topology, as well as their applications in various parts of physics, such as field theories and topological phases of matter, as well as data science.
Since Dec 2025: Deputy Director, Research Centre for Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.
Since Jan 2024: Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.
2021 -- 2023: Postdoctoral Research Assistant. Mathematical Institute, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
2017 -- 2021: Postdoctoral Research Assistant. Department of Mathematics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
2014 -- 2017: PhD in Mathematics. Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
2012 -- 2014: MSc Physics. Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hanover, Germany.
2009 -- 2012: BSc Physics. Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hanover, Germany.
2024: INI Retreat, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge.
2022 -- 2023: Non-Stipendiary Research Fellowship, St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
2021 -- 2023: Walter-Benjamin Fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG).
From 2025: Andres Klene