Department of Mathematical Sciences

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Christopher Hone, postdoc

Christopher started on 1 November 2025 as a postdoc at the department’s Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology under the mentorship of Jesper Grodal.

Sebastian Wolf, postdoc

Sebastian has been employed since 1 November 2025 as a postdoc in the department’s section for Algebra & Geometry.

Omer Bojan, PhD student

Omer was employed as a PhD student on 1 October 2025 in the Algebra & Geometry section, affiliated with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Lucas Larsen, PhD student

Lucas was employed in September 2025 as a PhD student at the department’s section for Algebra & Geometry, associated with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Anton Fehnker, PhD student

On 1 October 2025, Anton started as a PhD student in the department’s section for Algebra & Geometry, with Fabien Pazuki as supervisor.

Markus Emil Jacobsen, PhD student

Markus was employed as a PhD student at the department’s section for Algebra & Geometry from 1 September 2025.

Brian Harvie, postdoc

Brian was employed at the Department’s section for Algebra & Geometry as of 1st October 2025.

Chenglong Ma, PhD student

Chenglong Ma was employed as a PhD student in the section for Analysis & Geometry and associated with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology as of 1 October 2025.

Patricio Pérez Piña, postdoc

Patricio Pérez Piña is from 1 October 2025 employed as a postdoc in the department’s section for Algebra & Geometry.

Jan Ole Hesse, PhD student

Jan Ole Hesse joined the Algebra & Geometry section on 1 September 2025. He will be working with the Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Emanuel Reinecke, Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Emanuel Reinecke was employed as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor from 1 September 2025, associated with the department’s section for Algebra & Geometry.

Asbjørn Nordentoft, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

Asbjørn Christian Nordentoft is employed as a Tenure-track Assistant Professor as of 1 September 2025. He will be associated with the section for Algebra & Geometry.

Thomas Jan Mikhail, visiting postdoc

Thomas has been employed since 1 February 2025 as a postdoc in the Algebra & Geometry Section and the Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Obituary of Kjeld Bagger Laursen

Associate Professor Emeritus Kjeld Bagger Laursen died on 11 January 2025, aged 83. His research in Banach algebra and operator theory and his contribution to science didactics are described here by Niels Grønbæk.

Annachiara Piubello, postdoc

Annachiara is employed as a postdoc from 1st January 2025 in the Algebra & Geometry Section.

Mateusz Kandybo, PhD student

Mateusz Kandybo was employed as a PhD student in the Analysis & Quantum Section on 1 November 2024.

Visiting researcher

Erik Lindell, postdoc

Since July 2024, Erik Lindell has been a visiting postdoc with the section for Algebra & Geometry and the Centre for Geometry and Topology, mentored by Nathalie Wahl.

Artemis A. Vogiatzi, postdoc

In October 2024, Artemis started a three-year position at the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology (GeoTop), mentored by Prof. Niels Martin Møller.

Robert Burklund receives memorial scholarship

The Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science (SNU) presented 7 October the prestigious Kirstine Meyer Memorial Scholarship to Robert Burklund from, GeoTop, Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Research funding

ERC Starting Grant for Ryomei Iwasa

Postdoc Ryomei Iwasa has received a € 1.5 million Starting Grant from the European Research Council for his project about Motivic Stable Homotopy Theory.

Philippe Valentin Vollmuth, PhD student

Philippe started on 1 September 2024 as a PhD student in the Algebra & Geometry Section of the department, working with the GeoTop Centre.

Photo competition

Concrete abstractions

Professor Nathalie Wahl has won 2nd place in the DNRF's photo competition 2024 with a photo that shows how mathematicians use the blackboard to capture wild ideas and infinite spaces.

Robert Szafarczyk, PhD student

Robert Szafarczyk is employed from 1st September 2024 at the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology in the department’s Algebra & Geometry Section.

Anna Mustata, PhD student

Anna Mustata was employed as a PhD student from 1. September 2024 in the Algebra & Geometry Section.

Carles Checa, postdoc

Carles Checa started on 1 September 2024 as a postdoc in the section of Algebra & Geometry. He will work in the Applied Algebra Group with Elisenda Feliu.

Alf Söderberg, PhD student

Alf Söderberg is employed as a PhD student in the section of Algebra and Geometry from 1 September 2024. He will work under the supervision of Morten S. Risager.

Joan Ferrer Rodríguez, PhD student

Joan is employed as a PhD student from 1 September 2024, working with the Algebra and Geometry Section.

Søren Galatius receives award from the association AMR

The Association for Mathematical Research (AMR) has July 1st 2024 awarded Professor Søren Galatius from University of Copenhagen the new Fred R. Cohen Prize.

Clay Research Fellow

Ishan Levy, postdoc

Ishan Levy started on 1 June 2024 as a postdoc in the section for Algebra and Geometry. He is a Clay Research Fellow and has chosen to bring his grant with him to Copenhagen.

Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang

The headline is from Quanta Magazine. They describe the research by GeoTop postdoc Eric Ling and two of his collaborators.

Damian Osajda, professor

The Dean has appointed Damian Osajda as Professor of Mathematics at the Department for Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, from 1 June 2024.

Robert Burklund, Associate Professor

Robert Burklund joins us in a permanent position, as Associate Professor of Mathematics, starting June 1, 2024.

Marie Curie grant to Adela Zhang

Postdoc Adela (YiYu) Zhang has won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, which she will carry at our department during the next two years.

Robert Burklund receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

Robert Burklund, a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received DKK 7 million from the VILLUM Young Investigator Program.

Obituary for Bent Fuglede

With the death of Bent Fuglede, Denmark has lost one of its very important mathematicians and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen has lost a highly valued teacher, researcher and colleague.

Research grants

Semper Ardens grants to Bladt & Osajda

Martin Bladt and Damian Osajda receive The Carlsberg Foundation’s Semper Ardens Accelerate grant. Bladt will find statistical tools that can provide more accurate risk assessment for catastrophic events. Osajda will…

Priya Kaveri, PhD student

Priya Kaveri Vydhyanathapuram Venkitadri started on 1 November 2023 as a PhD student in the department’s section for algebra and geometry.

Chi Ho Yuen, postdoc

Chi Ho will be affiliated with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology, working with Karim Adiprasito.

Harish Upadhyaya, PhD student

Harish Upadhyaya was employed as a PhD student from October 2023 at the Algebra & Geometry Section.

Visiting researcher

Thomas Blom, visiting researcher

Thomas Blom is affiliated as a visiting researcher for the next year with the section for Algebra & Geometry and the Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Isaac Moselle, 4+4 PhD student

Isaac Moselle was employed in September 2023 as a 4+4 PhD student in the Algebra & Geometry Section. He will be working with the Copenhagen Center for Geometry and Topology (GeoTop).

Martín Blufstein, postdoc

Martín Blufstein is hired from October 1st 2023 as a postdoc for two years under the supervision of Damian Osajda.

Adela Zhang, postdoc

Adela (YiYu) Zhang started as a postdoc on 1 September 2023 at the Centre for Geometry and Topology. Her mentor is Nathalie Wahl.

Jonathan Clivio, PhD student

Jonathan Clivio started on 1 September 2023 as a PhD student in the section for Algebra & Geometry, working with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Florian Riedel, PhD student

Florian Riedel has been employed from 1 September 2023 as a PhD student at the department’s Algebra & Geometry section, affiliated with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Azélie Picot, PhD student

Azélie Picot has begun a PhD at the Department of Mathematical Sciences in September 2023. She will be working with the “Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology”.

Counterexamples to Ravenel's telescope conjecture

An Old Conjecture Falls, Spheres are a Lot More Complicated

Adrien Morin, postdoc

Adrien Morin is 1 August 2023 employed as a postdoc in the Algebra & Geometry section, working with Fabien Pazuki.

Research grants

Independent research funds for number theory and combinatorics

Independent Research Fund Denmark has awarded two projects to the department, a total of DKK 9 million. Joachim Kock, Jamin Matz, and Morten S. Risager will receive funding for their research into combinatorial…

Keshav Aggarwal, postdoc

Keshav Aggarwal is employed as a postdoc in the Algebra & Geometry Section from 1 April 2023. His mentor is Jasmin Matz.

Elite Research Travel Grant to Maxime Ramzi

PhD student at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Maxime Ramzi, received 20 January a travel grant of DKK 200,000 at the annual Elite Research award ceremony. It makes it possible for him to do a long-term researc…

Hélène Esnault, Professor

Professor Hélène Esnault is employed part-time at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, UCPH, from January 2023. She will work here three months every year from January to March with the Algebra and Geometry section.

Eric Ling, postdoc

Eric Ling is employed as a postdoc from 1 January 2023 in the section of Algebra & Geometry. He will be working at the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

COVID calculations spur solution to old problem in computer science

Mathematician from University of Copenhagen was keen to forecast the evolvement of the COVID epidemic. Instead, he ended up solving a problem which had troubled computer scientists for decades.

Anton Rask Lundborg, postdoc

Anton Rask Lundborg started on 17 November 2022 as a postdoc in the department’s section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Adel Betina, postdoc

Adel Betina was employed as a postdoc at the department on 1 October 2022. He is working with the Algebra & Geometry Section with prof. Ian Kiming as postdoc mentor.

Benjamin Briggs, postdoc

Benjamin Briggs is a postdoc in the Algebra and Geometry section, starting 1 October 2022.

Desirée Gijón Gómez, PhD student

Desirée is employed as a PhD student from 1 October 2022 in the Algebra and Geometry Section, under the supervision of Fabien Pazuki.

Fadi Mezher, PhD student

Fadi Mezher has been employed at the department since 1 October 2022; first as a research assistant, and from January 2023 as a PhD student.

Alex Mramor, postdoc

Alex Mramor is employed as a postdoc in the section for Algebra & Geometry, working with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Arina Voorhaar, postdoc

Arina Voorhaar started as a postdoc in the section Algebra & Geometry on the first of October 2022.

Tim With Berland, PhD student

Tim is employed as a PhD fellow from 1 September 2022 in the Algebra and Geometry section, and his PhD supervisor is Jasmin Matz.

Qingyuan Bai, PhD student

Qingyuan Bai was employed as a PhD student from 1 September 2022 in the section for Algebra and Geometry.

Damian Osajda, associate professor

Damian Osajda has been appointed as Associate Professor at the Department for Mathematical Sciences from 1 September 2022.

Branko Juran, PhD student

On the first of September 2022, Branko Juran started as a PhD student at the department’s section for Algebra & Geometry and the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Marius Kjærsgaard, 4+4 PhD student

Marius is employed as a so-called 4+4 PhD student from 1 September 2022. He will be working with the Algebra and Geometry section and the GeoTop centre.

Oscar Bendix Harr, PhD student

As of 1 September 2022, Oscar Bendix Harr will be a PhD student at the GeoTop centre. His supervisors are Jesper Grodal and Nathalie Wahl.

Jan Steinebrunner, postdoc

Jan Steinebrunner started on 1 August 2022 as a postdoc associated with the AG section and the GeoTop Centre. He will be working with Søren Galatius and Nathalie Wahl.

Robert Burklund, postdoc

Robert Burklund started on 18 July 2022 as a postdoc at the Algebra and Geometry section, associated with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

The Clay Research Award to Galatius & Randal-Williams

The 2022 Clay Research Award are made to Søren Galatius (University of Copenhagen) and Oscar Randal-Williams (University of Cambridge) for their profound contributions to the understanding of high dimensional manifolds…

Elisenda Feilu receives prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

The sought-after grant from ERC is given to groundbreaking and excellent research, and this time the honour goes to Elisenda Feliu from MATH.

Diploma Award to Dustin Clausen

Associate Professor Dustin Clausen has received the Hartmann Foundation's Diploma Prize 2022 for his work on developing and understanding the deep connection between geometry and number theory, two basic fields in…

Dani Kaufman, postdoc

Dani Kaufman was employed 1 February 2022 at the Algebra and Geometry section and the Center for Geometry and Topology. She will be working with Søren Galatius and Nathalie Wahl.

Oskar Henriksson, PhD student

Oskar Henriksson is employed as a PhD student at the department from 1 January 2022. He will be working with two of the department’s sections, both Algebra & Geometry and the section for Statistics and Probability…

Research grants

Carlsberg research grants to number theory and geometric analysis

Associate Professors Jasmin Matz and Niels Martin Møller both receive the Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowships.

Nuno Hultberg, PhD student

Nuno Hultberg was employed as a PhD student on 1 October 2021, working with the Algebra & Geometry Section under the supervision of Fabien Pazuki and Lars Kühne.

Nils Matthes, postdoc

Nils Matthes is employed at Copenhagen University from 1 October 2021 working in the Algebra & Geometry section with Morten S. Risager. He is funded by a Walter-Benjamin fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft…

Pierre Elis, PhD student

Pierre Elis was in September 2021 employed as a PhD student at the department’s section for Algebra & Geometry.

Shachar Carmeli, postdoc

Shachar Carmeli was employed on 1 September 2021 as a postdoc in the department’s section of Algebra & Geometry, working with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Jurij Volcic, postdoc

Jurij Volcic is employed as a postdoc at the department from 1 September 2021, associated with both the Analysis & Quantum and Algebra & Geometry sections, and the Centre for the Mathematics of Quantum Theory.

Maxime Ramzi, PhD student

Maxime Ramzi is employed as a PhD student starting in September. He will be working with the Algebra & Geometry Section and the GeoTop Centre, under the supervision of Jesper Grodal and Markus Land.

Dagur Tomas Asgeirsson, PhD student

Dagur Tomas Asgeirsson is employed as a PhD student from 1 September 2021. He will be working with the Centre for Geometry and Topology under the supervision of Dustin Clausen.

Ronno Das, postdoc

Ronno Das is employed from 1 September 2021 as a postdoc, working with the Algebra and Geometry section, specifically in the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Obituary of Asmus Schmidt

Our longtime colleague, associate professor Asmus Schmidt has passed away. His work manifested itself in research, teaching and administration.

Research grants

Marie Curie grants to Moon, Schmidt and Kock

Two postdocs and an associate professor have each won a competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, which they will carry at our department during the next two years. They will research in spectral gap stability,…

Nasrin Altafi, postdoc

Nasrin Altafi is employed from 1 August 2021 as a postdoc at the Algebra & Geometry Section. She will be working with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Joachim Kock, associate professor

Joachim Kock is employed for two years as an associate professor on a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher Fellowship. He will be working with the section for Algebra & Geometry and the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and…

Tobias Holck Colding to give Plenary Lecture at ICM

Adjunct professor Tobias Holck Colding will be Plenary Lecturer at The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in St Petersburg, Russia, July 2022.

International Postdoctoral Grant to three young mathematicians

The Independent Research Fund Denmark makes it possible for three researchers, educated at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, to do research on arithmetic statistics in Paris, graphs and operator algebra in…

Marie Curie grant to Lars Kühne’s research in diophantine geometry

Lars Kühne, postdoc at the Algebra & Geometry section, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to support his research project "Diophantine Geometry" here at our department.

Arindam Biswas, postdoc

Arindam Biswas started on 1 February 2021 as a postdoc in the section for Algebra & Geometry, working with the GeoTop Centre.

Máté Telek, PhD student

Máté Telek is employed as a PhD student on 1 April 2021, working with the Algebra & Geometry Section and the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Mikala Ørsnes Jansen, postdoc

Mikala was employed as a postdoc from 28th of December 2020 in the GeoTop Centre and the Algebra & Geometry section. Her mentor is Dustin Clausen.

Hans Plesner Jakobsen appointed Affiliated Professor

The Dean has appointed Hans Plesner Jakobsen - former Head of the Section for Mathematics - Affiliated Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Research-based teaching in experimental mathematics

Closer integrating research in teaching is a focus area for the University of Copenhagen. It is now being tested at the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the field of Experimental Mathematics.

Vignesh Subramanian, PhD student

Vignesh Subramanian started at the department 1 September 2020 as a PhD student at the section for Algebra and Geometry.

Patrick Schnider, postdoc

Patrick Schnider is employed as postdoc from 1 October 2020 in the section for Algebra & Geometry and the GeoTop Centre.

John Ma, postdoc

John Ma was employed as a postdoc 1 October 2020, associated with the Algebra & Geometry Section and the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Adriano Córdova, PhD student

Adriano Cordova was employed from 1 September 2020 as a PhD student associated with the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology.

Sergey Avvakumov, postdoc

Sergey Avvakumov started at the Department of Mathematical Sciences 1 August 2020 as a postdoc associated with the section Algebra & Geometry.

Lukas Jannik Woike, postdoc

Lukas Jannik Woike is employed as a postdoc from 1 October 2020. He will join the Algebra & Geometry Section where his mentor will be Nathalie Wahl.

Andrea Bianchi, postdoc

Andrea Bianchi started on 1 October 2020 as a postdoc in the GeoTop Centre and the Algebra & Geometry Section. His mentor is Nathalie Wahl.

Postdoc Positions in Mathematics

Postdoc Positions in Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen.

Niels Martin Møller, Associate Professor of Mathematics

The Dean has appointed Niels Martin Møller as Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Department for Mathematical Sciences from 1 September 2020.

Ali Muhammad, PhD student

Ali Muhammad is employed as a PhD student as of September 1st 2020, with the Algebra and Geometry Section and the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology (GeoTop).

Fabien Pazuki, professor of Mathematics

The Dean has appointed Fabien Pazuki as Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Science from 1 August 2020.

Dustin Clausen, associate professor

Dustin Clausen started 1 August 2020 as an associate professor in the Algebra & Geometry Section.

Lars Kühne, postdoc

Lars Kühne was employed as a postdoc 1 August 2020, associated with the section Algebra & Geometry. His mentor is Fabien Pazuki.

Opening symposium in the new GeoTop Centre

Copenhagen Center for Geometry and Topology will address the array of fundamental and unanswered questions in mathematics that lie at the intersection of geometry and topology. The opening of the centre will be marked b…

Hailun Zheng, postdoc

Hailun Zheng started as a postdoc on 1 August 2020. She is a member of the Algebra & Geometry Section. Her mentor is Karim Adiprasito.

Jingxuan Zhang, PhD student

Jingxuan is employed at the Department for Mathematical Sciences from 1 July 2020, where he will be associated with the Centre for Geometry and Topology (GeoTop).

Johanna Kristina Steinmeyer, PhD student

Johanna Kristina Steinmeyer started in February 2020 as a PhD student, associated with the Algebra & Geometry section.

Peter Patzt, postdoc

Peter Patzt started 1 June 2020 as a postdoc at the GeoTop Centre and the Algebra & Geometry Section.

Three new mathematical research projects are launched with DFF support

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) supports this year three researchers from the Department of Mathematical Sciences with grants of between two and 2.9 million DKK.

The EMS Prize to Adiprasito and Nam

The European Mathematical Society (EMS) awards every fourth year 10 young researchers for excellent contributions in mathematics. This year, Karim Adiprasito and Phan Thành Nam are among the winners. The first is a…

Benjamin Brück, postdoc

Benjamin Brück started as a postdoc at 1 April 2020 and will stay in Copenhagen for six months. He is a member of the Algebra & Geometry Section and the Centre for Geometry and Topology. His mentor is Nathalie Wahl.

Calista Bernard, research assistent

Calista is employed as a research assistant at the section for Algebra & Geometry, where she will work with Søren Galatius and the new GeoTop Centre.

Jan Tapdrup, Centre Administrator at GeoTop

Based at his home office, Jan Tapdrup took up the position as center administrator at Copenhagen Center for Geometry and Topology on April 1st 2020.

Five new Marie Curie Fellows

The Department has been awarded five of the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships. Congratulations to the five postdoc fellows and their mentors.

Inaugural lectures by Jonas Peters and Karim Adiprasito

Jonas Peters, Professor of Statistics, and Karim Adiprasito, Professor of Mathematics, will give their inaugural lectures Friday 24 January 2020 at 13:30 followed by a reception.

World leading mathematicians to solve mysteries at the interface of geometry and topology

An array of fundamental and unanswered questions in mathematics lie at the intersection of geometry and topology. With a 60 million kroner grant from the Danish National Research Foundation to establish a new research…

Marie Curie grant to Simon Gritschacher

Simon Gritschacher, postdoc at the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation, has won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which he will carry at our department.

Award to mathematician for best PhD thesis

Manuel Krannich today receives one of the three awards awarded by the SCIENCE Faculty for the best PhD dissertation of the year (submitted in 2018). He receives the award for the thesis "On characteristic classes of…

International postdoctoral grant to Martin Speirs

The Independent Research Fund Denmark is investing just under DKK 22 million this year in 16 younger researchers' careers and original ideas, which have the potential to grow significantly in an international research…