(Outdated. Please look for my CV on the home page). 

My Publications and List of Talks are on separate webpages.

Employment

2016-present, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

2012-2016, Advanced Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany

2010–2012, CLE Moore Instructor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

2009–2010, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Summer 2009, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany

Education

2009 Ph. D. in Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley. Advisor: P. Teichner. Thesis: “The classification of Two-Dimensional Extended Topological Field Theories”

2003 B.S. in Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College. Advisor: W. Gu. Thesis: “Cayley Manifolds in the Calabi-Yau 4-Torus”

1999 High School Diploma, South Eugene High School (Eugene OR).

Awards and Honors

2012-2014 AMS-Simons Travel Grant

2009-2012 National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

2009 Herb Alexander Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation

2003 Chavin Prize for outstanding mathematics thesis (undergraduate)

Given over 100 invited talks

See my comprehensive list

Professional Activities

Member of Scientific Committee of the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics

Active participant since Fall 2013 (7 sessions)

Conferences

Co-organized Midwest Topology Seminar, Winter 2017

Co-organized Higher Structures 2015

Co-organized West Coast Algebraic Topology Summer School 2014 (topic: topological field theories)

Seminars

2016-Present Co-organized Notre Dame Topology Seminar

2016 Principal organizer for Cobordism Hypothesis Seminar at MPIM

2014-2016 Co-organized weekly topology seminar at MPIM

2012-2013 Co-organized weekly student seminar on higher category theory (with P. Teichner) at MPIM

2011 Co-organized weekly summer seminar on Quantum Field Theory (with K. Ormsby) at MIT

2004 Co-organized weekly graduate student seminar Many Cheerful Facts at UC Berkeley.

Refereed for numerous mathematics journals

(list available by request)

Teaching Experience

Supervision of Students and Postdocs

I supervised Piotr Pstra?gowski during his master’s degree, which he obtained in the Summer of 2014 from the University of Bonn.

I mentored the following Postdocs at the MPIM: Tobias Barthel, Rune Haugseng, Drew Heard, and Claudia Scheimbauer.

Designed and taught topics course

Bordism: Old and New (Transversality, Pontryagin-Thom, h-principle, connections to cobordism hypothesis)
University of Bonn, 2013. Bordism Old and New

Designed and taught mini-courses