CV last updated: September 2026

Research

Current research topics. Homotopical and simplicial methods in complex-analytic geometry; coherent analytic sheaves and their Chern classes; holomorphic Deligne cohomology.

MSC2020. Primary: 18N50, 32C35, 18F20. Secondary: 18N60, 19L10, 32L05, 14F08.

Academic employment

• Social Impact Lead Topos Institute
  2026 – present
• Director of Operations Topos Institute
  2024 – 2026
• Academic visitor University of Oxford
  2024 – 2025
• Visiting researcher Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
  2023
• Postdoc Stockholms universitet
  2021 – 2023
• Research associate Topos Institute
  2020 – 2023
• Contracted researcher Centre for Quantum Technologies
  2020 – 2021
• Academic visitor University of Oxford
  2020 – 2021
• Scientist Université de Montpellier
  2019 – 2020

Education

• Doctorat en mathématiques Université d'Aix-Marseille
  2016 – 2020
  Supervised by Julien Grivaux and Damien Calaque
• MMath (Mathematics) University of Oxford
  2012 – 2016
  First-class honours

Teaching

• University of Oxford 2024
  Masters students
  Introduction to quantum information, algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, homological algebra, category theory.
• Stockholms universitet 2021 – 2023
  Masters students
  Commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
• University of Oxford 2021
  Masters students
  Introduction to quantum information, algebraic topology, category theory.
• Université d'Aix-Marseille 2017 – 2019
  Undergraduates
  Algèbre linéaire, calcul différentiel, maths en anglais.
• Kingsley School, Bideford 2013
  Sixth-form
  Mathematics and Further Mathematics A-levels.

Event organisation

• Topos Institute Colloquium 2021 – 2026
  topos.site/topos-colloquium
  Co-organised and run with many other members of the Topos Institute.
• Second Virtual Workshop on Double Categories 2024
  bryceclarke.github.io/virtual-double-categories-workshop
  Co-organised and run with Bryce Clarke.
• Virtual Double Categories Workshop 2022
  bryceclarke.github.io/virtual-double-categories-workshop/2022
  Co-organised and run with Bryce Clarke.
• Em-Cats Virtual Seminar 2021 – 2022
  topos.site/em-cats
  Co-organised and run with Eugenia Cheng and Brendan Fong.

Selected conference and seminar talks

2026

1. The responsibilities of decontextualisers
   Keynote talk: Diversity and Decolonisation in Mathematics and its Applications (Warwick University)

2025

2. Abstractions for real people
   Invited talk (New Paltz SUNY)
3. Čech data for holomorphic Chern classes
   Geometry, Topology, and Physics Seminar (New York University Abu Dhabi)
4. Open translations in mathematics
   Modern History of Mathematics (Isaac Newton Institute)

2024

5. Loose simplicial objects
   New York City Category Theory Seminar

2023

6. Geometry-independent constructions of bundles and sheaves
   Topology, Geometry, and Physics Seminar (CUNY)

2022

7. Diagrammatic differential equations
   Applied Category Theory 2022

2021

8. What is... a quantum algorithm?
   What is... a seminar?
9. Homotopical methods in complex geometry
   Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference

2020

10. Simplicial connections and resolutions for coherent analytic sheaves
    Stockholm University
11. Connections and curvature
    UGA Graduate Student Seminar

2019

12. Simplicial Chern–Weil Theory
    DerSympApp, Université de Montpellier
13. Twisting cochains and twisted complexes
    Young Topologists Meeting 2019, Lausanne

2018

14. Des méthodes simpliciales pour la géométrie complexe
    Conférence de l'équipe AGT d'Aix-Marseille, Carry-le-Rouet

2017

15. Les classes de Chern des fibrés vectoriels
    Séminaire Géométrie Complexe, Marseille