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 researcher 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]
2025: "Topological potentials guiding protein self-assembly" Math Seminar, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics GAMM Moansi Workshop, TU Munich Geometric Computation Group Seminar, Stanford University Materials Science Group Seminar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Winter 2025/2026
Mathematics for Computer Scientists (TA), University of Potsdam
Summer 2022
Computational Topology (TA), University of Potsdam
2013 – 2017
Computational Mathematics | Algorithmic Discrete Mathematics (UTA), TU Berlin
Visual Impressions
Interface surfaces computed via barycentric subdivision of multicolored tetrahedra. Left: Hepatitis B core protein dimer (PDB: 4BMG). Right: Random colored point cloud. Top row shows the interface surfaces, bottom row shows the corresponding point clouds. Colors on the interface indicate proximity to the input points. Use the sliders to step through the interface filtration.
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).
