CV
Employment
Jan. 2022 - current: Professor and Personal Chair of Geometry and Physics, University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics
July 2020 - Jan. 2022: Reader, University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics
July 2021 - June 2022: Professor, UC Davis Mathematics & Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics
July 2019 - June 2021: Associate Professor, UC Davis Mathematics & Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics
July 2015 - June 2019: Assistant Professor, UC Davis Mathematics & Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics
Sep. 2015 - June 2016: Senior Postdoc, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Dec. 2013 - Aug 2015: Long-Term Member, Institute for Advanced Study
Jan. 2011 - Nov. 2013: Member, Institute for Advanced Study
Oct. 2010 - Sep. 2015: Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
Sep. 2010: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
Education
2010 Ph.D. in Physics, Caltech
2005 MASt in Theoretical Physics (Part III Maths), Cambridge
2004 A.B. in Mathematics, Princeton
Grants
2022-27 EPSRC Open Fellowship EP/W020939/1 3d N=4 TQFT's £881,245
2018-23 NSF Career Grant No. 1753077 The Algebraic Structures of 3d Gauge Theory $400,000
2017-21 NSF Focused Research Group Grant No. 1664454 Homotopy Renormalization of Topological Field Theories $113,937
2014-18 (Co-PI, PI: Piotr Sulkowski) ERC Support for Frontier Research Grant No. 335739 Quantum Fields and Knot Homologies $70,000
Honors and Awards
2018-23 NSF CAREER Grant
2017-18 UC Davis Hellman Fellow
2010 Caltech Clauser Prize for Ph.D. Thesis
2006-09 NDSEG Graduate Fellowship
2004-05 Studentship in Mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge
2000 US Presidential Scholar