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POSITION

- Since April 2023 I am DFG (Eigene Stelle) fellow at the University of Jena.

- Since October 2019 until March 2023  I was a postdoc at the University of Jena.

- Starting from January 2019 until September 2019 I was a postdoc at the University of Tübingen.

   During January - March 2019 I was a visitor in MPI Bonn.

- Starting from October 2017 until December 2018 I was a postdoc at the University of Cologne.

- Starting from April 2016 until September 2017 I was an SNSF (Early Postdoc Mobility) fellow  at the University of Grenoble.

- Starting from April 2012 until March 2016 I was a PhD student at the University of Basel.

Conferences which I co-organise:

Regional Workshop in Algebraic Geometry, University of Jena, March 2023 (co-organized  with R. Púček).

Workshop on Algebraic Transformation Groups, Monte Verità, Switzerland, May 5 to May 8, 2024

(co-organized with J. Blanc and I. van Santen).

Teaching in the winter semester 2022/2023 (at the University of Jena)

Seminar: The geometry of T-varieties

Teaching in the summer semester 2022 (at the University of Jena)

Lecture: Linear Algebra

Teaching in the winter semester 2021/2022 (at the University of Jena)

Exercise classes: Linear Algebra

Teaching in the summer semester 2021 (at the University of Jena)

Lecture: Introduction to Algebraic Geometry

Teaching in the winter semester 2020/2021 (at the University of Jena)

Exercise classes: Linear Algebra

Teaching in the summer semester 2020 (at the University of Jena)

Lecture: Reflection Groups and Invariant Theory

Earlier I thought other courses at the University of Jena, at the university of Tübingen,

at the university of Cologne and at the University of Basel.

Master student 

January-July 2022: Leif Jakob, title: Characterization of smooth Danielewski surfaces by their auto-

morphism groups. Since Fall 2022 L. Jacob is a PhD student under the supervision of Hendrik Süß.

Preprints

1. Group Theoretical Characterizations of Rationality (with C. Urech, and I. van Santen)   arXiv:2409.07864

2. The Structure of Algebraic Families of Birational Transformations (with C. Urech and I. van Santen) arXiv:2409.06475  

3.  The Automorphism groups of zero-dimensional monomial algebras (with R. DíazA. LiendoG. Manzano-Flores),

 arXiv:2408.02197 (submitted).

4.  Bracket width of current Lie algebras (with B. Kunyavskii and I. MakedonskyiarXiv:2404.06045 (submitted).

5. When is the automorphism group of an affine variety  linear? (submitted).

Publications

6. Characterization of affine G_m-surfaces of hyperbolic type, arXiv:2202.10761 to appear in J. of Pure and Applied Alg.                                       

     https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022404924002263

7.  On the characterization of affine toric varieties by their automorphism group (with R. Díaz and A. Liendo

        arXiv:2308.08040 to appear in Israel J. Math.

8.  Maximal commutative unipotent subgroups and a characterization of affine spherical varieties (with I. van Santen

       arXiv:2112.04784  to appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc.  https://ems.press/journals/jems/articles/forthcoming

9.  Automorphism groups of affine varieties   without non-algebraic elements (with A. Perepechko)  arXiv:2203.08950 

       Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 152 (2024), 2377-2383. doi.org/10.1090/proc/16759

       (I gave a recorded talk on a very early version of this work at the "Seminar on Algebraic Transformation Groups".)

10.  Small G-varieties (with H. Kraft and S. Zimmermann), Canad. J.  of Math.  (2024) 76(1), 173-215. 

       (H. Kraft gave a recorded talk on this work at the "Quadratic forms, Linear algebraic groups and Beyond" Seminar)

11.  Lie subalgebras of vector fields on affine 2-space and the Jacobian conjecture, to appear in Ann. Inst. Fourier.

12.  Bracket width of the Lie algebra of vector fields on a smooth affine curve (with I. Makedonskyi),

       Journal of Lie Theory 33 (2023), No. 3, 919--923.

13.  Families of commuting automorphisms, and a characterization of the affine space (with S. Cantat and  J. Xie)  

      American Journal of Mathematics 145, no. 2 (2023): 413-434.  muse.jhu.edu/article/885815.

14.  Characterisation of affine surfaces by their automorphism groups (with A. Liendo and C. Urech)  arXiv:1805.03991 

      Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. di Pisa, 2023: VOL. XXIV, ISSUE 1, 249-289,  doi:10.2422/2036-2145.201905_009

     (C. Urech  gave a recorded talk on an this work at the conference "Algebraic Geometry - Mariusz Koras in memoriam").

15.  When is the automorphism group of an affine variety nested?  (with A. Perepechko), Transf. Groups, Vol. 28, pp. 401-412 (2023).

     (Sasha gave a recorded talk on an this work at the  conference  Algebraic Geometry - Mariusz Koras in memoriam").

16. Characterisation of  n-dimensional  normal affine SL_n-varieties, Transform. Groups, Vol. 27, pp. 271–293 (2022).

17. Vector Fields and Automorphism Groups of Danielewski Surfaces (with M. Leuenberger), Int. Math. Res. Not., Vol. 2022, 

      Issue 6, pp. 4720–4752.

18. On the characterization of Danielewski surfaces by their automorphism group (with A. Liendo and C. Urech), Transform.

     Groups, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2022.

19. Bracket width of simple Lie algebras (with A. Dubouloz and B. Kunyavskii), Doc. Math. 26, 1601-1627 (2021).

     (B. Kunyavskii gave a recorded talk on this research work at the conference "Affine Algebraic Groups, Motives and Co-

     homological Invariants" in Banff.)

20. Characterizing quasi-affine spherical varieties via the automorphism group (with I. van Santen), Journal de l’École poly-

      technique — Mathématiques, Vol. 8 (2021) pp. 379-414.

21. Is the affine space determined by its automorphism group? (with H. Kraft and I. van Santen), Int. Math. Res. Not.,  Vol. 2021,

     Issue 6,  pp. 4280–4300.

22.  Automorphisms of the Lie algebra of vector fields on affine n-Space (with H. Kraft), J. Eur. Math. Soc, Vol. 19, Issue 5, 2017,

     pp. 1577-1588.

Questions/Problems

1. Does  Tits alternative hold for the automorphism/birational transformation groups of affine varieties?

2.  Describe/characterize all maximal subgroups of the Cremona group that consists of algebraic elements.

3.  Is there an example of an affine variety  that has a non-discrete group of  automorphisms which does not

      contain an algebraic subgroup of positive dimension?

4.   Is SAut( A^n)  simple? Is Aut(A^n) generated by connected algebraic subgroups?

5. Is there a uniform bound on the derived length of a solvable subgroup of the Cremona group?

Useful Links

Semantic Scholar

Google Scholar

Seminars

Seminar in Padova

Seminar in Jena

Seminar on Algebraic Transformation Groups

Upcoming conferences 

Oberwolfach events

Conferences in Algebraic Geometry

International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine

Conferences in Levico Terme

Problems in affine algebraic geometry (by H.Kraft).

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