I am a mathematician working at the intersection of geometry, analysis and topology with a particular focus on problems involving the scalar curvature of a Riemannian manifold. Recently, my main passions have been to establish aspects of a comparison geometry for lower scalar curvature bounds as well as to study closely related geometric problems in the context of general relativity. Moreover, I am interested in topological properties of spaces of Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature. A broad overview of my general research area can be found in the volumes Perspectives in Scalar Curvature edited by Misha Gromov and Blaine Lawson.

Currently, I am based at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Münster, where my own position is funded by the Heisenberg Programme of the DFG and I am leading the ERC project COMSCAL (press release). Additionally, I am an investigator in the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster and a project leader in the CRC 1442 Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity.

Previously, I obtained my doctoral degree in 2016 from the University of Göttingen, where I was a student of Thomas Schick. Before that I studied at the University of Vienna and wrote my Master thesis under the supervision of Goulnara Arzhantseva.