About me
I am 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.
I'm currently helping with Covid research as a part of COMBAT (COvid-19 Multi-omics Blood ATlas), Work Package 2 of Covid-19 Immunology research at Oxford.
Co-authors and collaborators
Calista Bernard
Rachael Boyd
Helen Byrne
Frankie Dunn
Heather Harrington
Maarten Kleinhans
Alex Liu
William McMahon
Mona Merling
Laura Murray
Carmen Rovi
Claudia Scheimbauer
Julia Semikina
Claudia Scheimbauer
Nathalie Wahl
Links
Check out my podcast for 'De fascinatievolger' (in Dutch)
Check out Meromorf press from Hester Breman
Check out Picture this Maths, with among many amazing illustrations of what maths is all about, also my post on defining what topology is and explaining a bit about my research.
Check out my mother's artwork
Contact
hoekzema_at_maths.ox.ac.uk
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (550), Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom