Welcome
I am a geometric-topologist and my primary area of research is knot theory, braid groups and 3-manifolds. In particular, I am interested in studying topological objects through the lens of algebra. My research focuses on the construction of Jones-type invariants for knots and links in 3-manifolds other than the 3-sphere (skein modules), using knot algebras and Markov traces. Updated on April 12 2024.
About me
I received my PhD in Pure Mathematics from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Sofia Lambropoulou. In my thesis I worked on the computation of the HOMFLYPT skein module of the lens spaces L(p,1) via braids.
From January 2015 to December 2015 I was a postdoc at the School of Mathematics of the National Technical University of Athens within the research program "THALES", MIS 380154, co-financed by Greece & the EU and which involved 56 researchers worldwide.
In 2015 and together with Prof. S. Lambropoulou & B. Gabrovsek, we were invited for a 3-week "Research in Pairs" project at MFO Oberwolfach.
From September 2015 to August 2021, I was a Visiting Professor at China Agricultural University (ranked 3rd in the world in agriculture), and I have received two teaching awards (on June 2018 and June 2019) and two research awards (on March 2017 and November 2020). C.A.U. is a member of the "211" and the "985" projects of the Chinese Government.
I was a member of the local organizing commitee for the international conference on knot theory, "Knots in Hellas", held at the International Olympic Academy, Ancient Olympia, Greece, from 17th to 23rd of July 2016.
In February 2019 I published a monograph on mathematical analysis called "Sequences and Series". This book grew out of lectures I gave at China Agricultural University during Spring semester 2018. In September 2019 I organized a seminar on low dimensional topology at the School of Science @China Agricultural University together with Prof. Xiaojun.
Since September 2021, I am a Lecturer (tenured) at the School of Business and Economics @Maastricht University (Department of Data Analytics and Digitalisation). More information here and here.
On December 2022 I was invited as a plenary speaker at the 2nd Russia-China Conference on Topology and Combinatorics virtual meeting. On February 2023 I was invited to give a talk on the Mathematics Development Forum held at the School of Mathematics @Southeast University in Nanjing ,P.R. China.
In 2024 I became the "executive director" of the Mathematics Center Maastricht for SBE, UM.
In 2024 I will publish a monograph titled "Knot theory of lens spaces"; by De Gruyter publishers (Series: De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics) together with Prof's. Sofia Lambropoulou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Boštjan Gabrovšek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Maciej Mroczkowski (University of Gdansk, Poland).
In 2025 I will co-organize the international conference "The theory of periodic tangles and their interdisciplinary applications" at Tohoku University, followed by a successful application of the Junior Research Program.
I am also a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews/MathSciNet, Zentralblatt MATH and referree for many prestigious mathematical journals ("Topology and Its Applications" by Elsevier, "Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications" by World Scientific, "Communications in Mathematical Physics" by Springer and more).
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-4237 | If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be David Eisenbud's Commutative Algebra with a view towards Algebraic Geometry. I am an attempt to write on commutative algebra in a way that includes the geometric ideas that played a great role in its formation; with a view, in short, towards Algebraic Geometry. I cover the material that graduate students studying Algebraic Geometry - and in particular those studying the book Algebraic Geometry by Robin Hartshorne - should know. The reader should have had one year of basic graduate algebra. Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test |
Lecturer
September 2021 -- Present
Visiting Professor
September 2015 -- September 2021
Post doctorate fellow
January 2015 -- December 2015