I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at The University of Melbourne working in algebraic topology. I have difficulty stating quickly my research interests, but I usually say that I live in the intersection of operad theory, homotopy theory, and higher category theory. These days, I like to focus on applications of operads to low dimensional topology and geometry. My daily arXiv briefings include algebraic topology, category theory, and quantum algebra. 

I finished my PhD in 2010 at the University of Illinois-Chicago under the supervision of Brooke Shipley. I was a postdoc under J.F. (Rick) Jardine and Benoit Fresse, and worked at UCLA, before coming to Melbourne in July 2015.

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