About
I am a postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego, working with Albert Chern at the interface of physics simulation and geometric PDEs. My research uses (discrete) differential geometry, geometric mechanics, and variational principles to develop discretizations and algorithms that preserve geometric and topological structures by construction. These ideas connect 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
