Research group  Applied Geometric Analysis

Our group in applied geometric analysis works at the interface of pure and applied mathematics. With methods from geometric analysis, calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations, we aim to address fundamental questions arising in physics, materials science, numerics, and data science. We are particularly interested in the rigorous justification of the emergence of geometric variational principles or geometric flows.

As of March 2025, I am a professor at the Institute for Mathematics at Heidelberg University. Before coming to Heidelberg, I was a professor of mathematics at the University of Regensburg and a Bonn Junior Fellow at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn. Previously, I was a Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. In 2017, I finished my PhD under the supervision of Felix Otto at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.

I am on the editorial board of Interfaces and Free Boundaries (European Mathematical Society).