About me

I am an "akademische Rätin auf Zeit" at Heidelberg University, a PI in the Research Station Geometry & Dynamics and in the Research training group "Asymptotic Invariants and Limits of Groups and Spaces", a member of the Young Researchers Convent in the cluster of excellence STRUCTURES, and involved in the founding of the Heidelberg Experimental Geometry Lab (HEGL).

In the winter term 2024/25, I was a guest professor at Saarland University and in Fall 2019, I was 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, working with Kasra Rafi and Giulio Tiozzo. I did my PhD under the supervision of Gabriela Weitze-Schmithüsen. Furthermore, I am the senior editor of the Snapshots of modern mathematics from Oberwolfach.

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 summer term 2026, I offer a Proseminar with Anna Schilling on "Snapshots of modern mathematics". Please register in MÜSLI if you are interested in attending.

Since 2020, 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.