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” at TU Berlin, where I received my PhD supervised by Ulrich Pinkall and Peter Schröder, including a research stay with the latter at Caltech.