I am currently at ETH Zurich and will soon join the CNRS lab at Orsay (LMO) as a chargé de recherche. I co-edit the communal blog "Proofs and Prompts" about the profound transformation the field is currently undergoing, have a look here!
I am broadly interested in group theory, additive combinatorics, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, ergodic theory, geometry and their interactions. During my PhD I studied a generalisation of discrete subgroups of Lie groups called approximate lattices. Recently, I have also been interested in product growth in (compact) Lie groups, spectral problems on surfaces inspired by combinatorics and classification problems for invariant point processes.
Before my current position, I was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study. I graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2022 where I did a PhD under the supervision of Emmanuel Breuillard. You can find my CV here, a list of my publications here and recordings of some of my talks here. You can contact me at the following address: smachado [at] ethz.ch.
