Educational Background:

◆  Ph.D.  Math, Bonn University, Germany  2010

◆  M.S.   Physics, Australian National University, Australia  2003

◆  B.S.    Physics, Australian National University, Australia  2001

Working Experience:

◆ 2017.09 - 2018.06, Technion, Haifa, Israel

◆ 2016.10 - 2017.06, University of Melbourne

◆ 2015.07 - 2016.07, Tubitak foreign research fellowship, METU, Ankara

◆ 2014.12 - 2015.06, Resident Tutor, St. Mary’s College, University of Melbourne

◆ 2014.08 - 2014.12, Florida State University, Florida

◆ 2014.06 - 2014.08, JSPS Fellow, University of Tokyo

◆ 2012.09 - 2014.07, Post-doctoral position, National University of Singapore

◆ 2013.09 - 2013.12, ICERM Postdoc, Brown University

◆ 2011.01 - 2012.06, “Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin”Institut f¨ur Informatik II (computer graphics), University at Bonn

Honors and Awards:

◆ University medal (Theoretical Physics), Australian National University 2003

◆ Crawford Science Prize, Australian National University 2003

◆ Bonn International Physics Program, Scholarship from Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst 2001

12 Selected Publications:

Geometry of the Homology Curve Complex Journal of Topology and Analysis. Volume 4 number 3 (2012) 335-359.

A Curve Complex and Incompressible Surfaces in SxR arXiv:1108.4206v4 (2011).

Mesh editing in nonlinear constrained shape spaces (with O. Burghard, M. Hermann and R. Klein) Preprint (2012)

The Chillingworth class is a signed stable length Algebraic and Geometric Topology Volume 15 number 3 (2015), 1863-1876

Stable lengths on the pants graph are rational New York Journal of Mathematics. Volume 21 (2015) 1153-1168.

Critical levels and Jacobi fields in a complex of cycles Osaka Journal of Mathematics, Volume 54, Number 3 (2017), 475-497.

Fibering rigidity of 3-manifolds with Torelli monodromy arXiv:1502.03912 (2015)

Immersed stable commutator length on surfaces is computable Draft, available on request (2017)

Examples of covering properties of boundary points of space-times, accepted to International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics arXiv:1711.04167.

Finding simple curves in surface covers is undecidable,accepted to Geometriae Dedicata arXiv:1806.03700.PhD Thesis 

The Curve Graph and Surface Construction in SxRHonours Thesis 

Unusual Properties - Mathematical and Physical - of the a-boundary Construction