About me
I am a tenure track assistant professor at the Mathematics
Department of the Free University of Amsterdam, holding a VENI
fellowship. Before this I was a postdoctoral research associate at
the Centre
for Topological Data Analysis at
the University of Oxford working with Heather
Harrington and Helen
Byrne. Before this I was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn
and a postdoc at the Department
of Mathematical Sciences at Copenhagen. I was a DPhil student
at the Mathematical Institute
of the University of Oxford, working with Ulrike
Tillmann on topology of manifolds and cobordism categories. I
was also a DPhil student at the Earth
Sciences Department of the University of Oxford working with
the late Martin
Brasier on morphology of Ediacaran organisms. Before that I
wrote my master's thesis on quantum gravity with Renate
Loll and Tom
Ilmanen at the Institute
for Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University.
Within mathematics I am interested in topological data analysis applied to biomedicine and also pure algebraic topology, particularly in the study of manifolds, cobordism categories and topological quantum field theories. I am also interested in creating and learning about palaeontology, physics and art.