I am a mathematician with a background in computational topology, discrete geometry and combinatorics.
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam and an
affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory which I visited as a Fulbright fellow in 2024/2025.
During my PhD I investigated molecular self-assembly in simulations governed by shape-based potentials. At the moment I am further developing
this method to simulate how protein-protein interaction inhibitors bind to protein targets.
Publications
2025
“Solvation, geometry, and assembly of the tobacco mosaic virus.” (with M. E. Evans). PNAS Nexus, 4(3), pgaf065. [DOI]
2024
“Exotic self-assembly of hard spheres in a morphometric solvent.” (with R. Coles, G. Friesecke, & M. E. Evans). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(15), e2314959121. [DOI]
Preprints
2025
“Topological potentials guiding protein self-assembly.” (with A. Nigmetov, D. Morozov, & M. E. Evans). arXiv preprint. [DOI]
Exotic hard-sphere clusters discovered through morphometric solvation simulations.
Each structure shows the full cluster with the solvent accessible surface indicated by the transparent boundary (left)
alongside its contact graph representation (right).
