I am an Associate Professor in the UNC Department of Mathematics, and am broadly interested in low-dimensional topology, representation theory, homological algebra, category theory, and their interactions. At the moment, I’m particular interested in (higher) TQFTs derived from link homology and in link homology theories associated with non type A representation theory.
My office is Phillips 302, and my email is my first and last names @unc.edu. My work is currently supported by NSF CAREER Grant DMS-2144463 and my CV can be found here.
News:
- New preprint: Type B Webs (joint with Elijah Bodish and Ben Elias).
- During Fall 2026, I will be on sabbatical serving as a Senior Fellow at the program Quantum topology, character varieties and low-dimensional geometry at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA.
- My paper Type C Webs (joint with Bodish, Elias, and Tatham) has been accepted (provisionally) at Communications of the American Mathematical Society.
- My student Logan Gray defended her PhD thesis “Computations in Spin Link Homology” on 6/25/26. She has accepted a Teaching Assistant Professor position right here at UNC. Congrats Logan!
A note on travel:
I affirm the right to choose (i.e. for women to make decisions about their health and body). In light of actions taken by radicals on the US Supreme Court, I will decline any invitation to travel to speak in a state where abortion is illegal or unduly restricted.