2016-present: Perimeter Institute (Postdoc) 2013-2016: Northwestern University (NSF Postdoc / Boas Assistant Professor) 2007-2013: UC Berkeley (PhD student) 2003-2007: Stanford (Undergraduate) prehistory-2003: Eugene, OR
I study applications of higher category theory and homotopy theory to the quantum field theory and to condensed matter, and I study applications of condensed matter and quantum field theory to homotopy theory and higher category theory. Specific interests include anomalies, elliptic cohomology (aka topological modular forms), supersymmetric quantum field theory, sporadic groups, and "moonshine" phenomena.