Starting 1 October 2026, I will be a postdoctoral researcher at Cergy Paris Université (France) in the group of Jules Martel.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn, Germany) in the group of Catharina Stroppel. Before that, I was a graduate student at the UCLouvain (Belgium), working under the supervision of Pedro Vaz. I received my PhD in September 2024.
✉️ e-mail address: schelstraete@mpim-bonn.mpg.de
Research interests
Broadly speaking, my research lies in low-dimensional topology, representation theory and category theory. One part of my research is in quantum topology and categorification; another part, related to the first one, is about computation and higher structures in diagrammatic algebras.
Keywords: Khovanov homology, quantum groups, super Lie algebras, KLR algebras, monoidal categories, string diagrams, rewriting theory, Gröbner bases and diamond lemma.
News
- I am starting as a postdoctoral researcher at Cergy Paris Université, in the group of Jules Martel.
- My article Odd Khovanov homology and higher representation theory, joint with Pedro Vaz, has been published in Quantum Topology!
- My article Rewriting modulo in diagrammatic algebras and application to categorification has been published in Advances in Mathematics!