Academic Employment

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• March 2022 - present: Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz.

• January 2018 - February 2022: Johann Radon Institute of Computation and Applied Mathematics, Linz.

• August 2016 - January 2018: Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz.

• July 2015 - July 2016: University of Wuhan, China.

• July 2014 - June 2015: Johann Radon Institute of Computation and Applied Mathematics, Linz.

• October 2013 - June 2014: EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Reading, UK.

• July 2013 - October 2013: Visiting Researcher, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest.

 

Education

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• October 2009 - June 2013: PhD Mathematics, University of Bristol under the supervision of Misha Rudnev.

• October 2008 - June 2009: Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (also known as Part III of the Mathematical Tripos and Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics), Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

• September 2005 - June 2008: BSc Mathematics, University of Manchester.

 

Grants and Awards

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• March 2024 - March 2027: Principal Investigator for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Grant entitled “The Elekes-Szabó Problem”. The grant has a budget of € 364,800.

• 2022: Awarded the Förderungspreise of the Austrian Mathematical Society

• March 2021 - September 2024: Principal Investigator for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Grant entitled “Sums, Products, and Growth of Sets”. The grant has a budget of € 397,708.

• September 2017 - September 2021: Co-Author (with PI Arne Winterhof) for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Grant entitled “Additive Combinatorics in Finite Fields”. The grant had a budget of € 388,203.

 

Publications

 

See publications and preprints page.

 

Selected Talks

 

• Number Theory Web Seminar, June 2025

• New Trends in Additive Combinatorics and Related Fields, BIRS-IMAG, Granada - June 2025

• Minisymposium on Finite Geometry, Canadam 2025, Ottawa - May 2025

• Austria-China Discrete Mathematics Workshop, RICAM, Linz - December 2024

• FIM Kolloquium Talk, Universität Passau - July 2024

• Meeting of the Austrian Mathematical Society (Plenary Talk), University of Graz - September 2023 

• Korea-Taiwan-Vietnam Joint Meeting on Discrete Geometry and Geometric Measure Theory, Hanoi - July 2023

• Mini Workshop of Finite Fields and Applications, RICAM, Linz - June 2023

• Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar, ISTA Vienna - March 2023

• Number Theory Day, TU Graz -  December 2022

• Korea-Taiwan-Vietnam Joint Seminar - September 2022

• British Combinatorial Conference 2022, Mini Symposium on Additive Combinatorics, Lancaster University - July 2022

• Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting, Zoom Conference - June 2021

• Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory (CANT 2021), Zoom Conference - May 2021

• HUJI Combinatorics Seminar, Einstein Institute of Mathematics - March 2021

• Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory (CANT 2020), Zoom Conference - May 2020

• Combinatorics, Games and Optimisation Seminar, London School of Economics - February 2020

• Combinatorics, Probability and Algorithms Seminar, Birmingham University - February 2020

• Geometry and Topology Seminar, IST Vienna - October 2019

• Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Princeton University - September 2019

• Geometry Seminar, CUNY, New York - September 2019

• Discrete Analysis Seminar, University of Cambridge - May 2019

• Number Theory Seminar, University of Manchester - May 2019

• Combinatorics Seminar, University of Warwick - May 2019

• Workshop and Winter School on Local Statistics of Point Sequences, Linz - February 2019

• The Second Vietnam Workshop on Graph Theory and Discrete Geometry, Hanoi - January 2019

• Pseudorandomness and Finite Fields Workshop, RICAM, Linz - October 2018

• Forum Talk, RISC, Hagenburg - June 2018

• Symposium on Computational Geometry, Budapest - June 2018

• Invited Lecture, EPFL, Lausanne - February 2018

• Extremal Problems in Combinatorial Geometry Workshop, BIRS, Banff - February 2018

• Heilbronn Seminar, University of Bristol - October 2017

• Discrepancy Theory and quasi-Monte Carlo Methods Workshop, ESI, Vienna - September 2017

• The Music of Numbers: a conference in honour of Javier Cilluerelo, Madrid - September 2017

• Vilnius Conference in Combinatorics and Number Theory - July 2017

• Combinatorial and Computational Geometry Reunion Conference II, Lake Arrowhead, California - December 2016

• Combinatorics Seminar, University of Bristol - November 2016

• Conference on Elementary and Analytic Number Theory (ELAZ), Strobl, Austria - September 2016

• Diophantine Analysis and Related Topics Conference, Wuhan University - March 2016

• Number Theory Seminar, Rényi Institute - February 2016

• Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory Conference, Graz - January 2016

• Combinatorial and Computational Geometry Reunion Conference, Lake Arrowhead, California - December 2015

• China-Russia Workshop on Exponential Sums and Sumsets, Beijing - November 2015

• Colloquium Lecture, National Central University of Taiwan - October 2015

• Additive Combinatorics in Marseille, CIRM, Luminy - September 2015

• Symposium on Computational Geometry, TU Eindhoven - June 2015

• Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Chalmers University, Gothenburg - April 2015

• Computer Mathematics Seminar, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing - January 2015

• Invited Lecture, Center for Combinatorics, Nankai - January 2015

• Invited Lecture, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - October 2014

• Colloquium Lecture, Chung-Ang University, Seoul - August 2014

• International Conference on Combinatorics and Graphs, Beijing Jiao Tong University - August 2014

• Algebraic Techniques for Combinatorial and Computational Geometry Seminar, IPAM, Los Angeles - May 2014

• Unlikely Intersections Workshop, CIRM, Luminy - February 2014

• Finite Fields Workshop, RICAM, Linz - December 2013

• Combinatorics Seminar, University of Warwick - October 2013

• Pure Mathematics Seminar, University of Reading - October 2013

• Number Theory Seminar, Rényi Institute - September 2013

• Invited Lecture, University of Rochester - July 2012

• Young Researchers in Mathematics Conference, University of Bristol - April 2012

• Young Researchers in Mathematics Conference, University of Warwick - April 2011​

 

Teaching Experience

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• March 2025 - June 2025: JKU Linz, Exercise classes for Algebra für Informatik
• October 2024 - March 2024: JKU Linz, Lecturer for Mathematics for AI 1
• March 2024 - June 2024: JKU Linz, Lecturer for Discrete Mathematics
• October 2023 -  March 2024: JKU Linz, Lecturer for Mathematics for AI 3
• March 2023 -  June 2023: JKU Linz, Lecturer for Mathematics for AI 2
• October 2022 - March 2023: JKU Linz. Lecturer for Mathematics for AI 1
• March 2022 - June 2022: JKU Linz, Lecture course on Graph Theory​

• March 2022 - June 2022: JKU Linz, Exercise classes for Mathematics for AI 2

• October 2021 - March 2022: JKU Linz, Lecturer for Mathematics for AI 3

• March 2021 - June 2021: JKU Linz, Lecturer for Einführung in die Zahlentheorie (in German)

• October 2020 - March 2021: JKU Linz. Teacher for course on Differential Equations (in German)

• March - June 2020: JKU Linz. Lecturer for course on Probablistic Methods

• October 2018 - March 2019: JKU, Linz, Lecturer for course on Graph Theory

• March - June 2017: JKU Linz. Lecturer for course on Additive Combinatorics

• February 2016 - June 2016: Wuhan University. Lecturer for first year Linear Algebra course and fourth year Graph Theory course

• October 2014 - January 2015: JKU Linz. Lecturer for third year course on Boolean functions

• October 2013 - June 2014: University of Reading. 3rd year project supervisor and 1st year tutor

• January 2010 - June 2013: University of Bristol. Teaching Support Assistant

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Supervision Experience

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• I have supervised PhD students Audie Warren (who completed his PhD in December 2020) and Krishnendu Bhowmick (who completed his PhD in October 2024). I am currently supervisor to Michalis Kokkinos.
• I have acted as supervisor for six postdocs; Krishnendu Bhowmick, Jakob Führer, Mehdi Makhul, Sophie Stevens, Audie Warren and Dmitrii Zhelezov.
• Supervisor for summer research internships of Benedek Dombos (2019), Miriam Patry (2022 and 2024), Laura Dilly (2023) and Paul Hametner (2024). I also supervised Paul Hametner's bachelor thesis.
• Supervisor for the Masters Thesis of Timo Reichert: Completed and defended in February 2024. I am currently supervising Paul Hametner's masters thesis.
• I was an examiner for the PhD defence of Eriola Hoxhaj  at JKU Linz. I have acted as an external examiner for the masters defences of Tom Slattery (University of Bristol), Kelly D'Anto (EPFL Lausanne) and Etienne Petit (EPFL Lausanne).

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Other duties

 

• Organiser of minisymposium on Additive Combinatorics at the upcoming meeting of the Austrian Mathematical Society.

• Organiser of a training and selection camp for the Ukrainian International Mathematical Olympiad Team, which took place at Ricam/JKU in June 2022. 

• Organiser of Bristol-Linz Workshop which took place at Ricam in May 2022.

• Organiser of the Mini Workshop on Additive Combinatorics, which formed part of the 2018 RICAM Special Semester on Multivariate Algorithms and their Foundations in Number Theory.

• Organiser of the reading group on the Polynomial Method at JKU, September 2016 - October 2018.

• Organiser of the seminar series which formed part of the semester long program on Algebraic Techniques for Combinatorial and Compuational Geometry Seminar, IPAM, March-June 2014

• I have acted as a referee for 30+ journals as well as multiple conference proceedings and grant applications. I have written 70+ reviews for MathSciNet and ZBMath.

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A more detailed CV is available upon request.