Visitor programme
The Centre for Geometry and Physics hosts short term visitors to enhance interdisciplinary collaborations among our PIs and researchers from other Nordic institutes, as well as from abroad.
We are thankful to our visitors for their contribution to the scientific life of the Centre: below please find a list of our current and past visitors.
If you are interested in visting the center, let us know by filling out our google form.
Current visitors
Prof. Christopher Hull, Imperial College London, from June 10-14, 2025
Past visitors
Prof. Marcus Sperling (Wien Universität, AU), June 2-6, 2025
Dr. Matthew Yu, Oxford University, from June 2-6, 2025
Monica Kang
April 28 - May 10, 2025
Monica Kang is a Center of Particle Cosmology (CPC) Postdoctoral Fellow working on mathematical physics and high energy theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is focused on understanding the fundamental nature of quantum gravity and quantum field theory.
More about Monica Kang on the University of Pennsylvania's web
Andrea Grigoletto
March 25-April 4, 2025
Dr. Andrea Grigoletto is one of the postdoctoral researchers of the Simons Collaboration in Global Categorical Symmetries. He graduated from SISSA in 2022 and he is currently based in Durham University. His research focus are the mathematical structures that govern symmetries of Quantum Field Theories.
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Juhan Aru
7 - 10 January, 2025
Juhan Aru runs the random geometry group at the department of mathematics of EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland). PhD of the École Normal Supérieure de Lyon in 2015, his works are at the interface of probability theory, analysis and mathematical physics. At large his works focuses on how one can describe and study systems where geometric structure and randomness interact.
Fredrik Viklund
7 - 10 January, 2025
Fredrik Viklund is a professor at the department of mathematics of KTH (Stockholm) and a Wallenberg Scholar. He received his PhD from KTH and spent 2010-2013 as a Simons Fellow and J. F. Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University. His main areas of interest are complex analysis, probability, and mathematical physics.
Clay Cordova
16 - 20 September, 2024
Clay Cordova is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, working on foundational issues of quantum field theory and in string theory. He is also a member of the Enrico Fermi Institute and the Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics. PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University, prior to coming to UChicago, he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Long-Term Member at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Nick Sheridan
17 - 20 September, 2024
Sheridan is a mathematician originally from Melbourne, Australia. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne and his Ph.D. at MIT under the supervision of Paul Seidel. Since then, he has held positions at Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Cambridge University. He is currently a reader at the University of Edinburgh.
Constantin Teleman
3 - 7 June, 2024
Constantin Teleman is a professor at UC Berkeley, which he joined in 2006. His work has covered algebraic geometry, topology, representation theory, conformal field theory, mathematical physics. He is currently Director of the Simons collaboration on Categorical Symmetries.
Photo: George M. Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Guillermo Arias-Tamargo
18 - 27 March, 2024
Guillermo Arias-Tamargo is a Research Associate at the Theoretical Physics group at Imperial College London. He received his PhD in 2023 from the University of Oviedo under the supervision of Prof. Diego Rodríguez-Gómez.
His research interests include Quantum Field Theory and its symmetries and dualities, and using string theory tools to understand them.
Luca Cassia
18 - 27 March, 2024
Luca Cassia is a Research Fellow in Pure Mathematics at the University of Melbourne working in the group of Prof. N. Ganter.
He received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. S. Penati. After that he has been a PostDoc researcher at Uppsala University and Durham University.
He is interested in algebro-geometric aspects of quantum field theories and string theory; more specifically: matrix models, BPS/CFT correspondence, topological recursion, topological string theory, quantum cohomology and mirror symmetry.
More about Luca Cassia on University of Melbourne´s web
Francesco Bonechi
3 - 7 March, 2024
Francesco Bonechi got his PhD in physics from the University of Florence with a thesis on quantum groups. He works in INFN, sezione di Firenze. His reasearch interests are Batalin Vilkovisky method for the quantization of gauge theories and Poisson and higher geometry.
More about Francesco Bonechi on the INFN web
Photo: Camilla Thulin
Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann
24 February - 1 March, 2024
Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann did his PhD at Bonn University and Postdocs at DESY, Virginia Tech, Uppsala and currently at Northeastern University. His research evolves around the exploration of the dictionary between geometry and physics that string theory provides. Applications range from constructing UV completions of the Standard Model with Gravity and consistency conditions of discrete symmetries in Quantum Gravity.
Moreover, he exploits the dictionary, to gain insights into strongly coupled and non-Lagrangian theories in six and lower dimensions, their dualities and generalized symmetry structures.
More about Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann on Researchgate
Nikita Nekrasov
January 2024
Nikita Nekrasov was invited as the keynote speaker at the inauguration of the centre on January 24, 2024. He gave a popular science lecture entitled "The Natural Language: geometry of physics" that left the audience with a lot of food for thought. The lecture attracted over 120 people, both researchers and students in mathematics and physics, but also researchers from other disciplines, some science-minded journalists and members of the public.
Nikita is a world-leading expert in theoretical and mathematical physics active at the Simons Centre for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York. During the same visit, he was awarded an honorary doctorate at Uppsala University. More about Nikita Nekrasov on Wikipedia.
