24 October 2018

Renee Hoekzema, postdoc at TOP

Newly employed

Renee Hoekzema started on the 1st of October 2018 as a postdoc in the Topology group, mentored by Søren Galatius.

Renee HoekzemaBefore coming to Copenhagen, Renee completed her mathematics PhD at Oxford University under the supervision of Ulrike Tillmann.  Her mathematics research concerns algebraic and geometric topology, particularly in the study of manifolds, cobordism categories and topological quantum field theories.

Renee has a broad scientific research profile, having completed a PhD in palaeontology also at Oxford in 2016 and a masters in theoretical physics at Utrecht University in 2012.

She continues to be interested in mathematical (palaeo-)biological questions as well as mathematical physics, particularly relativity and quantum gravity. 

Renee's office is 04.2.01.