About me: I am Professor at Florida State University. My research lies within the field of infinite dimensional Riemannian geometry with applications to geometric PDEs and Data Science. In particular, I am interested in the study of manifolds of mappings, shape spaces and diffeomorphism groups. More information about my research and a complete list of publications can be found on my research page, see also my google.scholar profile.
Seminar and Conference Organization: Together with Tom Needham I am the organizer of the Data Science and Machine Learning Seminar at Florida State University. In this weekly seminar we are interested in topics at the intersection of optimal transport, Riemannian and metric geometry and applications to Data Science and Machine Learning; see here for a schedule of upcoming talks and more information. In addition I am frequently organizing various workshops and conferences on geometry, PDEs, data science and related topics. In particular, I am one of the organizers of the annual workshop series "Math en plain air"; for further information on past and upcoming events see here.
Research Support: My research is currently supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (DMS-2324962, 2023-2026 and CISE-2426549, 2025-2028) and by the Binational Science Foundation (BSF-2022076 2023-2026). In the past my work has been funded, among others, by the U.S. National Science Foundation (DMS-1953244, 2020-2024 and DMS-1912037, 2019-2023) and by the Austrian Science Foundation (P-353813, 2022-2023 and P-24625, 2012-2016).