About
What I'm doing
My main job is as Director of Operations at the Topos Institute, in Oxford, UK.
My mathematical research focuses on approaching complex geometry through the interface of algebraic topology (model categories, homotopy (co)limits, and simplicial/cubical objects) and algebraic geometry (derived categories, deformations, and (co)chain complexes). More specifically, with various co-authors, I'm trying to understand the (higher) homotopical structure of (lax) sheaves, with a focus on applications to coherent analytic sheaves on non-algebraic complex manifolds.
I also have some ongoing side projects:
- qubit.guide — an online book about introductory quantum information science, co-authored with Artur Ekert, Alastair Kay, and Chiara Macchiavello.
- ~/translations — translations of maths papers into English.
- ~/maths-dictionary — an open-source multilingual mathematical dictionary.
What I've done
- At the end of 2023, I was a visiting researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology working with Artur Ekert on the online introductory resource qubit.guide for quantum information science.
- From 2020 to 2023 I was a postdoc: first with Artur Ekert at both the Centre for Quantum Technologies and the University of Oxford; and then with Wushi Goldring at Stockholm University.
- In 2020, I defended my PhD thesis (HAL:tel-02882140) at the Université d'Aix-Marseille on the subject of twisting cochains in complex geometry and Chern classes of coherent analytic sheaves, supervised by Julien Grivaux and Damien Calaque. During the final year of my PhD, I worked as part of the DerSympApp project at the Université de Montpellier.
- In 2016 I graduated with an MMath from the University of Oxford, after having finished my BA in Mathematics there the previous year.
For more details, see ~/cv.