Espen Auseth Nielsen, PhD student at SYM

Espen Auseth Nielsen is employed as a PhD student at the Center for Symmetry and Deformation from 15 September 2015.

His PhD project will be supervised by Nathalie Wahl and is in the area of homological stability, although a definitive project has not yet been decided.

Espen received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His master's thesis, titled “Strict Higher Categories and their Application to Cobordism Theory”, was supervised by Professor Nils A. Baas and concerned the cobordism theory of manifolds with corners and Baas-Sullivan singularities.

Espen can be found in office 04.4.05.