CV

Research Interests

Set theory, in particular in the areas of inner model theory, determinacy axioms and descriptive set theory, as well as their relationships and connections to other areas of logic and mathematics.

Academic Positions

• Since June 2023 Associate Professor at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Wien
• Mar 2023 - May 2023 Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Wien
• Dec 2022 - Feb 2023 University Assistant (Tenure Track) at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Wien
• Feb 2021 - Nov 2022 FWF Elise Richter Fellow at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Wien
• Aug 2020 - Nov 2021 L'ORÉAL Austria/ÖUK/ÖAW Fellow at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna
• Jul 2020 - Feb 2021 Maternity leave
• Oct 2017 - Feb 2021 University Assistant (postdoctoral scholar) at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna
• Nov 2016 - Sep 2017 Postdoctoral scholar (FWF Project P 28157, Project Leader: Sy-David Friedman) at the Kurt Gödel Research Center (KGRC), Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna

Fellowships and Awards

• Sep 2022 Förderungspreis of the ÖMG (Austrian Mathematical Society).
  The Förderungspreis of the ÖMG is the highest mathematics award in Austria. It is awarded every year by the ÖMG to a promising young mathematician for outstanding achievements. The laudatio by Grigor Sargsyan is available here.
• Jun 2022 FWF START Prize with the project
  Determinacy and Woodin limits of Woodin cardinals.
  The START Prize is the highest award for outstanding young researchers in Austria. You can read an interview I gave about my research and the aims in this START project here (in German, see here for the English version).
  
  © FWF/Anja Koppitsch/Daniel Novotny
• Apr 2022 Election as a member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
  The Young Academy consists of up to 70 excellent researchers who are elected on the basis of acquired important research awards and fellowships. One main aim of the Young Academy is to support innovative research and strengthen young researchers.
• Apr 2021 Offer from Bristol University, permanent position as Director of Mathematics & Philosophy Programme: Lectureship in Logic/Set Theory. Declined.
• Nov 2020 FWF Elise Richter Fellowship with the project
  Long games and determinacy when sets are universally Baire.
  The Elise Richter Programme of the FWF supports highly qualified scientists to enhance their university career.
• Jul 2020 L'ORÉAL Austria/ÖUK/ÖAW Fellowship with the project
  Determinacy and Large Cardinals.
  The L'ORÉAL Austria Fellowship is awarded in collaboration with the Austrian UNESCO Commission and in cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with the financial support of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research to support young basic researchers in the fields of medicine, the natural sciences or mathematics.
• 2012 - 2015 Doctoral studies supported by a scholarship of the Deutsche Telekom Stiftung and a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
• 2009 - 2012 Bachelor and Master studies supported by a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
• 2009 - 2010 Bachelor studies supported by a scholarship of the University of Münster, Germany, awarded to the best students in their third semester (WWU Stipendium)

Selected International Research Visits

• Oct 2021 Research visit at IMPAN, Sopot, Poland (guest of Grigor Sargsyan)
• Oct - Nov 2019 Research visit at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA (guest of Grigor Sargsyan)
• Feb 2019 Research visit at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (guest of Omer Ben-Neria)
• Feb 2019 Research visit at Bristol University, UK (guest of Philipp Schlicht and Philip Welch)
• Apr 2018 Research visit at the Mathematical Logic group of Turin, Italy (guest of Alessandro Andretta, Luca Motto Ros and Matteo Viale)
• Dec 2017 Research visit at City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA (guest of Victoria Gitman) and at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA (guest of Grigor Sargsyan)
• Aug - Sep 2015 Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK, in the programme Mathematical, Foundational and Computational Aspects of the Higher Infinite (HIF)
• Dec 2014 Research visit at CUNY, New York, USA (guest of Victoria Gitman)
• Feb - Mar 2013 Research visit at the University of California at Berkeley, USA (guest of John Steel)

University Education

• Nov 23, 2022 Habilitation, TU Wien, Austria
• Oct 20, 2016 Graduation from the University of Münster, Germany
  Doctoral thesis: Pure and Hybrid Mice with Finitely Many Woodin Cardinals from Levels of Determinacy
• 2012-2016 Doctoral studies in Mathematical Logic at the University of Münster under supervision of Ralf Schindler
• 2011-2012 Master of Science in Mathematics (University of Münster)
  Master thesis: Woodin's HOD Conjecture
• 2011-2012 Master of Science in Computer Science (University of Münster)
• 2009-2011 Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (University of Münster)
  Bachelor thesis: Van der Waerden's Theorem and Primitive Recursive Upper Bounds for the Van der Waerden Numbers
• 2009-2011 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (University of Münster)

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