About

I am a professor of mathematics and member of the Geometry and Topology Group at NTNU in Trondheim. My research is mainly focused on homotopy theory and its applications in algebraic and arithmetic geometry. For more information, please have a look at my research page and my notes from talks and lecture series. I enjoy working with students and invite you to contact me if you are interested in working on a project with me. You find current and finished projects on my supervision page. Below you find some more information about my academic service and academic experience.

Contact

See my NTNU profile.

Selected Academic Service

  • I am currently the head of the study programs for mathematics at the IE faculty.
  • Since 2018 I have been a member of the scientific committee at NTNU for the funding applications for the project Pure Mathematics in Norway.
  • I have provided expert opinions and written referee reports for more than 30 research articles submitted to a variety of international jornals - among others Advances in Mathematics, Annals of Mathematics, Compositio Mathematica, Documenta Mathematica, Forum of Mathematics Pi, Journal für Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, and Journal of Topology.
  • In 2023 I started to write reviews for MathSciNet.
  • I served as a reviewer for various international research grant proposals.
  • I am a member of the Norwegian Mathematical Society and the AMS.
  • I regularly serve as an external examiner for Bachelor and Master theses and exams at UiO, UiB, UiS, and UiT.
  • External evaluation committee for an Associate Professorship at University of Oslo 2020
  • I was the head of the Geometry & Topology group at NTNU 2019-2022.

Short CV

Academic Positions

  • 2019– Professor at NTNU
  • 2015–2019 Associate Professor at NTNU
  • Fall 2014 DFG-Research Fellow at LMU München
  • Spring 2014 Research Associate at Harvard University
  • 2013 Interim Full Professor at University of Münster
  • 2010–2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University
  • 2005–2010 Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Münster

Paternity leaves

  • May 2019 – Jan 2020 and June – December 2022

Education and Academic Degrees

  • PhD and Habilitation in Mathematics at
    University of Münster
  • Diplôme d’études approfondis - Méthodes algébriques at
    Sorbonne Université Paris
  • Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (Part III of Mathematical Tripos) at 
    University of Cambridge
  • Undergraduate studies at
    University of Heidelberg

Long term research visits at

  • Harvard University
  • Institut Mittag-Leffler Stockholm
  • RIMS Kyoto
  • Institute for Advanced Study Princeton
  • University of Tokyo
  • Institut Henri Poincaré Paris

Research

My research is mainly focused on homotopy theory and its applications in algebraic, complex and arithmetic geometry. I am currently supported by the project Equations in Motivic Homotopy financed by the Research Council of Norway, and I am a research partner in the LPP-RIMS International Research Network Arithmetic & Homotopic Galois Theory. Prior my research was supported by RCN project Motivic Hopf equations and by the German Research Foundation in various forms.
Here are my ORCID ORCID iD icon, my Google scholar profile, my zbMath profile, and my MathSciNet page.

Publicatons and Preprints

  • Quasi-Boolean groups pdf (with Ambrus Pál)
    preprint - arXiv:2502.07681 - 32 pages

  • Geometric representation of cohomology classes for the Lie groups Spin(7) and Spin(8) pdf (with Eiolf Kaspersen)
    preprint - arXiv:2409.06491 - 8 pages

  • A note on the Thom morphism for the classifying space of certain Lie groups and gauge groups pdf (with Eiolf Kaspersen)
    preprint - arXiv:2405.12717 - 11 pages

  • Real projective groups are formal pdf (with Ambrus Pál)
    to appear in Mathematische Annalen - 38 pages

  • Making the motivic group structure on the endomorphisms of the projective line explicit pdf (with Viktor Balch Barth, William Hornslien and Glen M. Wilson)
    Advances in Mathematics 461 (2025) Paper No. 110080 - 65 pages

  • On the cokernel of the Thom morphism for compact Lie groups pdf (with Eiolf Kaspersen)
    to appear in Homology, Homotopy and Applications - 30 pages

  • Geometric pushforward in Hodge filtered complex cobordism and secondary invariants pdf (with Knut Bjarte Haus)
    Documenta Mathematica 29 (2024), 457-509
  • A note on Real line bundles with connection and Real smooth Deligne cohomology pdf (with Peter Marius Flydal and Eirik Eik Svanes)
    Acta Mathematica Vietnamica 49 (2024), 187-199
  • Formality and strong Massey vanishing for real projective groups pdf (with Ambrus Pál
    Oberwolfach Reports 20 (2023), no. 3
  • Geometric Hodge filtered complex cobordism pdf (with Knut Bjarte Haus)
    Advances in Mathematics 431 (2023), Paper No. 109244, 58 pages
  • Representability of the local motivic Brouwer degree pdf (with Therese Strand and Glen M. Wilson)
    Mathematica Scandinavica 128 (2022), 54-77
  • Examples of non-algebraic classes in the Brown-Peterson tower pdf
    Mathematische Zeitschrift 293 (2019), 25-37
  • Unstable splittings in Hodge filtered Brown-Peterson cohomology pdf
    Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures 14 (2019), 349-369
  • Algebraic cycles in generalized cohomology theories (with Michael J. Hopkins)
    Oberwolfach Reports vol. 15 (2018), no. 2
  • An Abel-Jacobi invariant for cobordant cycles pdf
    Documenta Mathematica 21 (2016), 1645-1668
  • Profinite and discrete G-spectra and iterated homotopy fixed points pdf (with Daniel G. Davis)
    Algebraic & Geometric Topology 16 (2016), 2257-2303
  • Existence of rational points as a homotopy limit problem pdf
    Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 219 (2015), 3466-3481
  • Homotopy theory of smooth compactifications of algebraic varieties pdf
    New York Journal of Mathematics 19 (2013), 533-544

  • Continuous homotopy fixed points for Lubin-Tate spectra pdf
    Homology, Homotopy and Applications 15 (2013), 191-222

  • Profinite G-spectra pdf
    Homology, Homotopy and Applications 15 (2013), 151-189

  • Some remarks on profinite completion of spaces pdf
    Galois-Teichmüller theory and Arithmetic Geometry (Hiroaki Nakamura, Florian Pop, Leila Schneps, and Akio Tamagawa, eds.), Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics, vol. 63, Mathematical Society of Japan, 2012, pp. 413-448

  • Torsion algebraic cycles and étale cobordism pdf
    Advances in Mathematics 227 (2011), 962-985

  • Profinite homotopy theory pdf
    Documenta Mathematica 13 (2008), 585-612

  • Stable étale realization and étale cobordism pdf
    Advances in Mathematics 214 (2007), 730-760

Editorial Work

  • Nils A. Baas, Gunnar E. Carlsson, Gereon Quick, Markus Szymik, Marius Thaule (as editors): Topological Data Analysis - The Abel Symposium 2018 Abel Symposia, volume 15, Springer-Verlag 2020 - Preface to the book

  • Eric M. Friedlander, Gereon Quick, Paul Arne Østvær (as special editors):
    Special Issue on motivic A1-homotopy theory
    Journal of K-Theory, volume 7, issue 3, 2011 - Preface to the special issue

Other writing

  • Mixed Hodge structure on the fundamental group (with Gabriel Herz)
    Extended abstract - Arbeitsgemeinschaft mit aktuellem Thema: Polylogarithms
    Oberwolfach Reports vol. 1, no. 4 (2004), 2551–2553

Notes and Talks

Lecture Notes

  • Notes from my lectures on Differential Topology in Spring 2024.

  • Notes from my lectures on Algebraic Topology in Fall 2018.

  • Notes from my lectures on Characteristic classes, K-theory and the Adams conjecture in Spring 2014 - Advanced Algebraic Topology Math231br at Harvard University.


Slides from selected recent talks

Supervision

I have supervised projects on a variety of topics ranging from algebraic number theory, category theory and algebraic topology to differential, complex and algebraic geometry. You find a list of former and current students I had and have the pleasure to work with including the title of their theses below. To get an idea of what I work on myself please have a look at my research page. You may also find some suggestions for possible topics here. If you are interested in working on a project which may lead to a Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis, I would be very happy to talk to you. I will do my best to find an exciting project which meets your passion, interests and background. Just contact me!

Current team

Master students

  • 2023–2025: Eivind Xu Djurhuus

  • 2023–2025: Martin Löcsei

  • 2024–2025: Mikkel Elkjær Kårstein

PhD candidates


Past projects

Mentoring of postdoctoral researchers

PhD supervision

Here is my Mathematics Genealogy.


Master theses


Bachelor theses

  • 2022–2023: Eivind Xu Djurhuus
    Thesis: Local Class Field Theory via Lubin- Tate formal groups

  • 2022–2023: Martin Löcsei
    Thesis: Abstract Homotopy Theory of Smooth Manifolds

  • 2018–2019: Torgeir Aambø
    Thesis: Naive homotopy theory for schemes

  • 2018–2019: Sigurd Gaukstad
    Thesis: Bott Periodicity and its applications to \(K\)-theory

  • 2018–2019: Anders Alexander Andersen
    Thesis: Cobordism Theory - An Introduction to Topological Pants

  • 2010–2014: I have in addition supervised 9 Bachelor theses on various topics at the University of Münster, Germany.

StudForsk projects

Teaching

I am passionate about teaching and eager to implement and adapt different teaching and learning techniques, for example classical lectures, flipped class room settings, reading courses and seminars, and video lectures. I have and had the pleasure to teach courses to students from varying backgrounds at all levels ranging from introductory calculus to advanced topics courses in Germany, the US and Norway. Below you find a list of my teaching activities. Please also have a look at my Lecture notes.

at NTNU

  • Spring 2025: Differential Topology (TMA4192)

  • Fall 2024: Mathematics 1 - Single variable calculus (TMA4100)

  • Spring 2024: Differential Topology (TMA4192)

  • Fall 2023: Mathematics 1 - Single variable calculus (TMA4100)

  • Spring 2023: Leave

  • Fall 2022: Paternity leave

  • Spring 2022: Differential Topology (TMA4192)

  • Fall 2021: Mathematics 3 - Linear Algebra (TMA4110)

  • Spring 2021: Differential Topology (TMA4192)

  • Fall 2020: Mathematics 3 - Linear Algebra (TMA4110)

  • Spring 2020: Mathematics 3 - Linear Algebra (TMA4115)

  • Fall 2019: Paternity leave

  • Spring 2019: Mathematics 3 - Linear Algebra (TMA4115)

  • Spring 2019: Seminar on Advanced Algebraic Topology

  • Fall 2018: Algebraic Topology (MA3403)

  • Fall 2018: Reading Course Algebraic Topology 3 (MA8403)

  • Spring 2018: Introduction to Topology (TMA4190)

  • Fall 2017: Mathematics 1 - Single variable calculus (TMA4100)

  • Spring 2017: Leave

  • Fall 2016: Mathematics 1 - Single variable calculus (TMA4100)

  • Fall 2016: Seminar for Master Degree Students (MA3001)

  • Spring 2016: Mathematics 3 - Linear Algebra (TMA4115)

  • Fall 2015: Mathematics 3 - Linear Algebra (TMA4110)

  • Spring 2015: Manifolds (TMA4190)

  • Spring 2015: Reading Course Algebraic Topology 2 (MA3405)


at Harvard University

  • Spring 2014: Advanced Algebraic Topology (Math 231br)

  • Spring 2012: Integration, Series and Differential Equations (Math 1b)


at University of Münster

  • Fall 2013: Lecture on Quadratic Forms

  • Spring 2013: Lecture on Modular Forms and Modular Curves

  • Spring 2013: Reading group on Motivic Homotopy Theory

  • Spring 2013: Seminar on Elliptic Curves in Cryptography

  • Fall 2012: Seminar on the étale fundamental group

  • Spring 2010: Seminar on Abelian Schemes

  • Fall 2009: Seminar on Class Field Theory and Assistant for the lecture on Algebraic Geometry I

  • Spring 2009: Seminar on Elliptic Curves with Deepam Patel

  • Fall 2008: Seminar on Local Fields with Deepam Patel

  • Spring 2006: Seminar on Galois Cohomology

  • Fall 2005: Seminar on Representation Theory of Finite Groups

  • Fall 2003: Seminar on Zeta- and L-Functions

  • Spring 2002: Seminar on Algebraic Curves

Events

I have had the pleasure to meet many exciting people and to be part of inspiring events at a variety of places. Below is a list of past and future events that I attended or are going to attend. At most of the occasions I was invited to give a talk, for some I was the co-organiser, while some events are in this list just because I liked them particularly and want to keep a link.

Recent guests at NTNU

  • Dustin Clausen
  • Benjamin Collas
  • Elden Elmanto
  • Ambrus Pál
  • Tomer Schlank
  • Jonas Stelzig

Conferences, events, seminars

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