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. 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 more information on past and upcoming events see here.
Research Support: My research is currently supported by the NSF (2324962, 2023-2026, 2426549, 2025-2028 and 2526630, 2025-2028) and by the Binational Science Foundation (2022076, 2023-2026). In the past my work has been funded, among others, by the NSF (1953244, 2020-2024 and 1912037, 2019-2023) and by the Austrian Science Foundation (P-353813, 2022-2023, P-24625, 2012-2016) and by several grants from the Council on Research and Creativity of FSU (2023-2025, 2024, 2021, 2018).