About
I am a postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego, working with Albert Chern. My research lies at the interface of physics simulation and geometric PDEs, where I use tools from (discrete) differential geometry, geometric mechanics, and the calculus of variations to develop structure-preserving discretizations and algorithms for problems in applied and computational mathematics, physical simulation, geometry processing, and robotics.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL with Mark Pauly and an investigator in the DFG research center SFB/TRR 109, “Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics”. I received my PhD from TU Berlin in 2024 supervised by Ulrich Pinkall and Peter Schröder, including a research stay with the latter at Caltech.
News
- 06/26 Talk at the Brin MRC workshop on Geometric PDE Challenges, University of Maryland, Geometric Methods for Physics Simulation
- 04/26 Talk at the Contextual Robotics Institute, UC San Diego, Geometric Methods in Motion Planning
- 04/26 Talk at the Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab, UC San Diego, Geometric Methods in Motion Planning
- 04/26 Talk at the Pixel Cafe, CSE, UC San Diego, Geometric Methods in Motion Planning
- 04/26 Talk at the Computer Science Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, Geometric Methods for Physics Simulation
- 03/26 Flash talk at the State-of-the-Art in Computer Graphics workshop, SIGGRAPH 2026, Sub-Riemannian Geometry in Graphics
- 03/26 Talk in the CIGMO seminar, Geometric Methods for Physics Simulation
- 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Technical Papers Committee
- 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 Technical Papers Committee
- 12/25 Talk at the Geometric Computing Lab, NYU Courant, Geometric Methods for Physics Simulation
- 10/25 Talk at the Soft Math Lab, Harvard University, Geometric Methods for Physics Simulation
- 10/25 Talk at the CRAB Lab, Georgia Tech, Inverse and Optimal Geometric Locomotion
- 10/25 Talk at the Geometric Data Processing Group, MIT CSAIL, Geometric Methods for Physics Simulation
- 10/25 Talk at the Dynamic Graphics Project, University of Toronto, Inverse and Optimal Geometric Locomotion
- 10/25 Talk at the Relativity and Cosmology Group, Troy University, Force-Free Fields are Conformally Geodesic
- 10/25 SAP Young Researcher Grant, 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
- 10/25 Talk at the Geometry Workshop in Obergurgl 2025, Inverse and Optimal Geometric Locomotion
- 07/25 Led the project How to fix a broken snake robot? at the Summer Geometry Initiative 2025, MIT
- 06/25 Talk at the Smart Geometry Processing Group, University College London, Inverse Problems in Geometric Locomotion
- 05/25 Inverse Geometric Locomotion accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2025
- 2025 Technical Papers Conflict of Interest Coordinator, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
- 03/25 Talk in the Geotop-A web-seminar series, Conformal Geometry in Magnetic Relaxation
- 03/25 Talk at Durham University, Conformal Geometry in ideal MHD
- 12/24 Talk at the SPECtaculars' meeting, Force-Free Fields are Conformally Geodesic
- 11/24 Talk at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Conformal Geodesibility and Ideal MHD
- 06/24 Talk at EQUADIFF 2024, Karlstad University, Geometry of Plasma Knots
- 05/24 Defended my PhD thesis Conformal Geometry in Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics, summa cum laude
- 04/24 Poster with Sean Even at the 2024 Midwest Robotics Workshop, Optimizing Robotic Snake Gait with Machine Learning and Shape Change Algorithms
- 04/24 Workshop on Houdini for Computer Graphics, TU Berlin
- 03/24 Going with the Flow accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2024
- 02/24 Talk at the ODEN Institute, UT Austin, Geometric Approaches to Fluid Simulations
- 02/24 Research visit to UT Austin
- 11/23 Talk at the SFB 1060, University of Bonn, Shifting Shapes with Shape Shifts
- 11/23 Talk at the Geometric Computing Laboratory, EPFL, Variational Energies for Curves with Variable Thickness
- 10/23 Talk at the MiNiRoLab, University of Notre Dame, Geometric Mechanics for Physics Simulation
- 10/23 Motion from Shape Change featured in Spektrum.de SciLogs
- 09/23 Motion from Shape Change featured in IEEE Spectrum
- 08/23 Talk at the Geometry Workshop Obergurgl 2023, Motion from Shape Change
- 08/23 Talk at ACM SIGGRAPH 2023, Motion from Shape Change
- 08/23 Motion from Shape Change featured by Caltech News
- 08/23 Poster at Caltech's Women in STEM program, Motion from Shape Change
- 06/23 Plasma Knots accepted to Physics Letters A
- 05/23 Poster at the CMS + IST Meeting of the Minds, Caltech, Motion from Shape Change
- 2023 Selected for the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
- 04/23 Talk at the Pixel Cafe, CSE, UC San Diego, Shifting Shapes with Shape Shifts
- 03/23 Talk at the CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar, Caltech, Filament Based Plasma
- 02/23 Talk at the Bellan Plasma Group, Caltech, A Geometric Approach to Magnetic Relaxation
- 01/23 Began a research stay at Caltech
- 2023 Filament Based Plasma featured in the DFG Calendar
- 08/22 Talk at the Discrete Geometric Structures workshop, Vienna, Filament Based Plasma
- 08/22 Talk at SIGGRAPH 2022, Filament Based Plasma
- 07/22 Talk at UC San Diego, Lagrangian Modeling and Geometric Optimization in Plasma Physics
- 05/22 Talk at the Geometry Seminar, TU Graz, Riemannian Geometry in Plasma Physics
- 2022 Filament Based Plasma accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2022
