Satellite ECM 2024 Conference: Joint Perspectives in Geometry, Algebra and Topology

Lidia Angeleri Hügel is a professor of algebra at the University of Verona. She studied mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, completing a Ph.D. there in 1991 under the supervision of Wolfgang Zimmermann. She continued at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a postdoctoral researcher from 1992 to 2002, earning a habilitation there in 2000. In 2002, she was Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and briefly held an associate professorship at the University of Insubria, before moving to the University of Verona as an associate professor. She became full professor at the University of Verona in 2016.

Natalia Castellana has been an Associate Professor at the UAB since 2010. She was an EPSRC postdoc at Aberdeen University from 2000 to 2001, and a visiting professor at Purdue University in 2005. She has participated in several research programmes: Mittag-Leffler Institute (2006, 2022), Bernoulli Centre (2005), Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik (2001, 2022), Fields Institute (2020), Banff International Research Centre (2022), Hausdorff Institute (2022), ICTS Bangalore (2023), and several workshops at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. She was the Coordinator of the Spanish Topology Network in 2012.

Miguel Domínguez Vázquez is a Profesor Titular de Universidad at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, Spain), and a researcher at the Galician Center for Mathematical Research and Technology (CITMAga, Spain). He obtained his PhD from the same university in 2013, under the supervision of J. Carlos Díaz Ramos. Before joining the USC in 2019 with a Ramón y Cajal fellowship, he held positions at IMPA (Brazil), ICMAT-CSIC and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). His mathematical research revolves around the mutual influence between symmetry and shape from the viewpoint of differential geometry and, specifically, of Riemannian submanifold geometry.

Ellen Henke holds the chair of Algebra with a focus on group theory at the Institute for Algebra of the Technische Universität Dresden since August 2020. She previously worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and also carried out research at the universities in Copenhagen and Birmingham. Her research area is finite group theory and its applications. In particular, she is interested in the structure theory of finite groups with respect to a prime number, which is generalized in the study of saturated fusion systems. This is also related to parts of homotopy theory, cohomology theory and modular representation theory of finite groups.

Bernhard Keller is a professor at the Université Paris Cité. His research is in homological algebra and the representation theory of quivers and finite-dimensional algebras. He has applied triangulated Calabi–Yau categories to the (additive) categorification of cluster algebras. In 2013, he received an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp. In 2014 he received the Sophie Germain Prize. He was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid in 2006, with a talk On differential graded categories. Keller is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Karen Strung is a researcher in the department of Abstract Analysis at the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IMCAS). She is also part of the Prague Noncommutative Geometry and Topology (NGC&T) group, which consists of researchers at IMCAS, Charles University, and the Czech Technical University. She obtained her doctoral degree in January 2014, from the University of Münster, under the supervision of Wilhelm Winter.

Before joining the IMCAS, she held postdoctoral positions at the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada, the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, and Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

She is currently vice-chair of the COST Network “Calista”, and she is also part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral network “California”.

Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Southampton, 2015-present. Reader in Mathematics, University of Southampton, 2012-15. Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, 2006-12. Lecturer B, University of Aberdeen, 2002-06. Whyburn Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 1999-2002. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998-99. Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, 1997-98. PhD and MSc, University of Toronto, 1991-97. BSc, Dalhousie University, 1987-91.

Research interests: the homotopy theory of spheres and Moore spaces, applications of homotopy theory to Lie groups, gauge groups and manifolds, and polyhedral products and toric topology.