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Aktuelles Projekt
Pseudorandomness in Combinatorics

Forschungsschwerpunkte
My main interests lie in extremal and additive combinatorics. In particular, I am interested in methods seen in the so called higher order Fourier analysis as these are employed in order to solve problems in combinatorial number theory. In these areas, there is a special interest in certain notions of pseudorandomness of combinatorial structures and the manners in which one can interact with those.

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
I (formally) received my Ph.D. from Ben-Gurion university in Israel, in June 2011. My Ph.D. thesis was in the field of graph theory focused on certain problems in structural, extremal, and chromatic graph theory involving where the graphs involved had certain forbidden minors or subdivisions.
I first arrived in Hamburg in October of 2010 as a Minerva fellow to serve as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Reinhard Diestel. During this time I worked on infinite matroids.
Currently (starting October 2012) I am a postdoc of Prof. Dr. Mathias Schacht, pursuing research in extremal graph theory and additive combinatorics.

Mentor: Prof. Mathias Schacht, Ph.D.

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Aktuelles Projekt
Re-imagining scriptural narrative in mediaeval Sanskrit court literature

Forschungsschwerpunkte
Classical Sanskrit poetry and drama, Purāṇic mythology, Śākta mythology and poetry from the 6th-16th centuries CE, the cult of the Goddess in mediaeval Indian kingship

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
I did my BA in English Language and Literature from St. Hilda's College, Oxford University, where I obtained a First Class. Thereafter, I did an M.Phil in Classical Indian Religions at Wolfson College, Oxford University, and subsequently a D.Phil in Sanskrit, also at Oxford, which I completed in October 2011. My doctoral thesis was on the history of the worship of the Indic warrior-goddess Caṇḍikā, also known as Durgā, by warrior lineages in mediaeval India, and the relation of this goddess's cult and its ritual practices to ideologies of heroism, kingship and royal power popular in the age. Currently my focus has shifted to classical Sanskrit poetry and drama (kāvya), particularly a handful of kāvya works that re-imagine the demon-slaying myth of Caṇḍikā. I am interested in strategies whereby widely known exemplars of this tale were freshly interpreted and recast in the classical poetic tradition, enabling the poets of this tradition to assert their independence, and their own methods and questions, from the canonical versions of the myth. The wider historical background of this enterprise--the connection of these poetic works to mediaeval court culture and the royal cults of Caṇḍikā--will also be interrogated. I maintain a special interest in Śākta poetry and mythology dedicated to Caṇḍikā from my doctoral research in that area.

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Harunaga Isaacson

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