Curriculum Vitae

Degrees

2015: Dr. rer. nat. (Phd) at the JLU Gießen under the supervision of Klaus Metsch.
2012: Master of Science in mathematics at the JLU Gießen.
2009: Bachelor of Science in mathematics at the JLU Gießen.

Positions

11/2023-01/2030: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China.
10/2023: Associated postdoctoral researcher at Gent University. Supervisor: Leo Storme.
10/2020-09/2023: Senior Postoctoral Researcher of the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) at Gent University. Supervisor: Leo Storme.
10/2017-09/2020: Postoctoral Researcher of the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) at Gent University. Supervisor: Leo Storme.
09/2018-10/2018: Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
07/2017-01/2018: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Supervisor: Gil Kalai.
07/2016-06/2017: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Pacific Institute of the Mathematical Sciences at the University of Regina. Supervisor: Karen Meagher.
05/2012-06/2016: Scientific Assistant of Prof. Dr. Albrecht Beutelspacher/Doctoral Researcher under Prof. Dr. Klaus Metsch in the Mathematical Institute at Giessen University.
04/2008-04/2012: Teaching Assistant in the Mathematical Institute at Giessen University.

Editorial Boards

Since 02/2025: Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A.

Research Visits/International Collaborations

08/2025: 3 weeks with Pascal Schweitzer at the TU Darmstadt.
07-08/2025: 1 week with Bill Martin and Sam Adriaensen at the Worcestor Polytechnical Institute.
07/2025: 4 days with Frank Vallentin at Cologne University.
07/2024: 2 weeks with Sam Adriaensen, Jan De Beule, Jozefien D'haeseleer, Sam Mattheus, and Leo Storme at the VUB Brussels.
06-07/2024: 2 weeks with Pascal Schweitzer, Irene Heinrich, Simon Raßmann, Lena Volk at the TU Darmstadt.
01-02/2024: 3 weeks with Pascal Schweitzer and Irene Heinrich at the TU Darmstadt.
05/2023: 3 days with Anurag Bishnoi at the TU Delft.
05-06/2022: 2 weeks with Karen Meagher at the University of Regina.
05/2022: 4 days with Sebastian Cioaba and Felix Lazebnik at the University of Delaware.
11-12/2021: 6 weeks with Jacques Verstraete, University of California San Diego.
12/2019: 5 weeks with John Bamberg, Anurag Bishnoi, Gordon Royle and others at the University of Western Australia.
05/2019: 4 days with Sebastian Cioaba, Felix Lazebnik and Qing Xiang at the University of Delaware.
03/2019: 2 weeks with Yuval Filmus at the Technion.
02/2019: 4 days with Anurag Bishnoi and Tibor Szabo at the FU Berlin.
01/2019: 5 days with Lilya Budaghyan at the University of Bergen.
09/2018-10/2018: 2 months with Akihiro Munemasa and Hajime Tanaka at Tohoku University.
05/2017: 5 days with Peter Dukes at the University of Victoria, BC.
05/2017: 9 days with Eric Moorhouse and Jason Williford at the University of Wyoming.
04/2017: 5 days with Anton Betten and Tim Penttila at Colorado State University.
04/2017: 4 days with Sebastian Cioaba, Felix Lazebnik and Qing Xiang at the University of Delaware.
08/2016: 2 weeks with Chris Godsil and Krystal Guo at the University of Waterloo.
03-04/2016: 25 days with Karen Meagher at the University of Regina.
02-03/2016: 5 days with Sebastian Cioaba, Felix Lazebnik and Qing Xiang at the University of Delaware.
06/2015: 10 days with Karen Meagher at University of Regina.
03/2014: 3 weeks with Jan De Beule at the mathematics department at the University of Ghent.
02-04/2013: 6 weeks with John Bamberg at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Western Australia.

Grants and Fellowship

I received the following research grants with me as the principal investigator.

Start-Up Grant Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 2023. (2 million RMB)
Start-Up Grant SUSTech, SUSTech (internal), 2023. (1 million RMB)
FWO Long Term Research Stay Abroad, Flemish Research Foundation, 2021, for the USA. (ca. 3,000 EUR)
FWO Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Flemish Research Foundation, 2020–2023. (ca. 282,000 EUR)
FWO Long Term Research Stay Abroad, Flemish Research Foundation, 2019, for Australia. (ca. 3,000 EUR)
FWO Long Term Research Stay Abroad, Flemish Research Foundation, 2018, for Japan. (ca. 3,000 EUR)
FWO Postdoctoral Researcher, Flemish Research Foundation, success rate 2017: 0.2739, 2017–2020. (ca. 282,000 EUR)
PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pacific Institute of the Mathematical Sciences, 2016–2017. (ca. 50,000 CAD)
Research Trust Fund of the University of Regina, 2017.

Furthermore, I successfully applied for the following grants:

Conference Fund of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, 2016.
Conference Fund of the University of Regina, 2016.

I received the following personal grants.
(I do not know if these belong here, but they make me ineligible for some research grants, so for now I will keep them here.)

Pearl River Talent Plan, Guangdong Province, 2026. (0.5 million RMB)
Peacock Talent Grant Level C, Shenzhen, 2025–2027. (ca. 0.8 million RMB)

Service

Organized Conferences

Referee

I have refereed at least 97 articles for various journals, including:

Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
Combinatorica
Algebraic Combinatorics
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
European Journal of Combinatorics
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

I refereed grant proposals, but too few to list them here.

Outreach

I helped with outreach programs for school children in Giessen, Regina, and Ghent.