Postdocs

Postdoctoral Fellows During the Academic Year 2021-2022

Name	Ph.D Institution	Mentor	Research Interests	Email (@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu)
Daniel Junghans	Leibniz Universitaet Hannover	Cumrun Vafa	Mathematical physics, quantum graphs, and spectral geometry; string theory	djunghans
Daniel Kapec	Harvard University	Shing-Tung Yau and Andrew Strominger	Quantum field theory, general relativity, and quantum gravity	dkapec
Tsung-Ju Lee	National Taiwan University	Shing-Tung Yau	Agebraic geometry	tjlee
Kan Lin	University of Tokyo	Shing-Tung Yau	Financial Math, Fintech	klin
Jue Liu	Sun Yat-sen University	Shing-Tung Yau	Geometric analysis	jliu
Puskar Mondal	Yale University	Shing-Tung Yau	Mathematical general relativity	puskar
Matteo Parisi	University of Oxford	Lauren K. Williams	Quantum Field Theory, Scattering Amplitudes, Amplituhedron, Tropical Geometry, Cluster Algebras	mparisi
Du Pei	Caltech	Shing-Tung Yau	Invariants of 3- and 4-manifolds, Higgs bundles, mirror symmetry, categorification, conformal field theory and TQFT, dynamics of, supersymmetric gauge theories, various other topics in mathematical physics.	dpei
Itamar Shamir	Weizmann Institute of Science	Shing-Tung Yau	Supersymmetry and high energy; Boundary conformal field theory, BH entropy through localization	ishamir
Yun Shi	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Shing-Tung Yau	Algebraic Geometry, Donaldson-Thomas theory, Pandharipande-Thomas theory, stability conditions	yshi
Michael Simkin	Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel	Shing-Tung Yau	Combinatorics; Probabilistic Combinatorics	msimkin
Ryan Thorngren	UC Berkeley	Shing-Tung Yau	Quantum condensed matter system and high energy theory; mathematical physics, topological phases of matter	ryan.thorngren
Freid Tong	Columbia University	Shing-Tung Yau	Complex differential geometry and nonlinear partial differential equations	ftong
Farzan Vafa	University of California, Santa Barbara	David Nelson	Physical Modeling of Morphogenesis	fvafa
Sergiy Verstyuk	University of Chicago	Scott Kominers	econometrics and quantitative economics	verstyuk
Juven Wang	MIT	Shing-Tung Yau	Ultra Unification, Theoretical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Quantum Field Theory	jw
Max Wiesner	Instituto de Fisica Teoria UAM-CSIC	Cumrun Vafa	String theory	mwiesner
Gabriel Wong	University of Virginia	Cumrun Vafa	Quantum information theory and quantum gravity	gwong
Thérèse (Yingying) Wu	UT Austin	Shing-Tung Yau	Graph cohomology, Comparison Theorems of Phylogenetic Spaces and Algebraic Fans; Differential Geometry and Mathematical Biology	ywu
Changji Xu	University of Chicago	Horng-Tzer Yau	Probability theory	cxu

A list of previous postdocs can be found here.