About me
I am a professor at the University of Caen Normandy, working working in the Laboratoire de Mathématiques Nicolas Oresme.
Before that, I was an "akademische Rätin auf Zeit" in the Research Station Geometry & Dynamics at Heidelberg University, a guest professor at Saarland University and a Visiting Assistant Professor in Mathematics at NYU Shanghai.
From April 2016 to August 2019, I was a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. I did my PhD under the supervision of Gabriela Weitze-Schmithüsen.I believe in the content of the statement of inclusiveness and the axioms set forth by Federico Ardila-Mantilla.
Surfaces ...
My research revolves around surfaces. These are some of the simplest objects in geometry and topology but although they are easy to envision, they lead to interesting questions.
Mathematicians depict surfaces often as I have done in the figure above, showing a surface of genus 3, that is, with three holes. I am particularly interested in surfaces which have increasingly many or even infinitely many holes.
... and their symmetry groups
There are many different approaches to study surfaces. One of my favourite ways is to look at their symmetries. For topological surfaces, this is the notion of mapping class groups. For translation surfaces, this is the notion of Veech groups.
For more information on what I am interested in, see Research.
Teaching
In the first semester of the academic year 2026/27, I teach the course "Compléments Mathématiques 1" and a group of "Analyse 1".
From 2020 to 2026, I taught the courses "(Big) mapping class groups", "Einführung in die Geometrie" (with Beatrice Pozzetti) and "Algebraic Topology I", held seminars (in particular in the Heidelberg Experimental Geometry Lab), and organized the exercise classes for Linear Algebra 1 and 2 as well as of a course on translation surfaces at Heidelberg University. In the winter term 2024/25, I taught Mathematics for computer scientists I at Saarland University. In fall 2019, I taught Honors Calculus at NYU Shanghai. Previously, I taught MATB43 (Introduction to Analysis), STAB41 (Financial Derivatives), and MATD01 (Fields and Groups) at University of Toronto Scarborough.
For more information about my teaching, see Teaching.