
Piotr Sułkowski Associate Professor, Principal Investigator
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics & California Institute of Technology
Members
University of Warsaw
Faculty of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics
ul. Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland

Aditya Bawane PhD, Postdoctoral researcher
Research interests: gravity and CFTs in two dimensions, supersymmetric gauge theories
email: Aditya.Bawane [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 5.62 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 962

Carlos Perez Sanchez PhD, Postdoctoral researcher
Research interests: random matrices and tensor models, topological quantum field theories, noncommutative geometry, topological recursion
email: Carlos.Perez [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 5.62 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 962

Jakub Jankowski PhD, Postdoctoral researcher
Research interests: applied AdS/CFT correspondence, holographic description of real-time dynamics of systems with phase transitions, resurgence in hydrodynamics and Chern-Simons theories
email: Jakub.Jankowski [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 5.62 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 962

Miłosz Panfil PhD, Postdoctoral researcher
Research interests: strongly correlated systems, integrable models, knot theory, topological field theories
email: milosz.panfil [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 4.19 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 819

Paweł Ciosmak PhD student
Research interests: topological quantum field theory, matrix models
email: p.ciosmak [at] mimuw.edu.ploffice: MIMUW/5040 tel.: (+48) 22 55 44 504

Helder Larraguivel PhD student
Research interests: topological quantum field theory, matrix models
email: helder.larraguivel [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 4.45 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 845

Dmitry Noshchenko PhD student
Research interests: dualities in mathematical physics, topological recursion, homotopy Lie algebras, quantum invariants of manifolds, integrability
email: dsnoshchenko [at] gmail.comoffice: 5.63 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 963

Shi Cheng PhD student
Research interests: topological recursion, matrix models, topological strings, SUSY gauge theories
email: shi.cheng [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 4.38 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 838

Artur Strąg MSc student
BSc thesis: “Minimal models of conformal field theory and their correlation functions”, September 2017, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: two-dimensional superconformal field theory, string theory, knot theory
email: as358849 [at] okwf.fuw.edu.plOverseas ERC team members

Tudor Dimofte ERC investigator
Member at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, USA
www: http://www.ias.edu/people/cos/users/10270email: tdd [at] ias.edu

Bertrand Eynard ERC investigator
Professor at the Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA, Saclay, France
www: Personal webpageemail: bertrand.eynard [at] cea.fr

Sergei Gukov ERC investigator
Professor at Caltech, USA
www: Personal webpage at Caltechemail: gukov [at] theory.caltech.edu

Motohico Mulase ERC investigator
Professor at the University of California, Davis, USA
www: Webpage at UC Davisemail: mulase [at] math.ucdavis.edu

Marko Stošić ERC investigator
Researcher at the ISR, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal
www: Webpage at ISR, ISTemail: mstosic [at] isr.ist.utl.pt
Former members

Sibasish Banerjee PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2019)
Research interests: string theory and gauge theories, algebraic geometry, complex and symplectic geometry, number theory

Vivek Kumar Singh PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2019)
Research interests: Chern-Simons theory and knot invariants, topological string theory, vertex model, representation theory, matrix models, entanglement entropy

Ehsan Hatefi PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2017-2018)
Research interests: brane effective actions, T-duality, alpha’ corrections in string theory, effective field theory, topological field theory, mirror symmetry, integrability in gauge theories, Chern-Simons theory, AdS/CFT

Petr Vasko PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2016-2018)
Research interests: rigid supersymmetry on curved manifolds, exact results in supersymmetric field theories, mirror symmetry, integrability in gauge theories

Hironori Mori PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2017-2018)
Research interests: supersymmetric field theories, non-perturbative phenomena in string and field theory, integrability, knots and number theory

Masahide Manabe Postdoctoral researcher (2014-2017)
Research interests: matrix models, supersymmetric gauge theories, topological strings

Piotr Kucharski PhD student (2013-2017)
PhD thesis: “Knots and BPS states”, September 2017, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: BPS states, knot invariants

Junya Yagi PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2015-2017)
Research interests: supersymmetric field theories, integrability, M5-branes

Paweł Smoliński MSc student (2015-2017)
MSc thesis: “From topological strings to quantum invariants of knots and quivers”, July 2017, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: topological quantum field theory, knot invariants

Tomasz Linowski BSc student (2016-2017)
BSc thesis: “Low-dimensional models of quantum field theory”, July 2017, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: low-dimensional quantum field theory

Satoshi Nawata Postdoctoral researcher (2014-2015)
Research interests: supersymmetric gauge theories, knot invariants, dualities from M5-branes

Grzegorz Łach Postdoctoral researcher (2014)
Research interests: low energy quantum field theory, Casimir effect, RNA structure prediction and design, numerical methods
email: 137.036 [at] gmail.comoffice: 5.46 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 946

Sebastian Zając Postdoctoral researcher (2013-2014)
Research interests: matrix models, RNA topology, neutrino phenomenology
www: Personal webpage
Ernest Yeung MSc student (2013-2014)
MSc thesis: “Quantum super-A-polynomials”, March 2014, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, advisors: Prof. Peter Mayr, Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: super-A-polynomials

Wojciech Gac BSc student (2013-2014)
Research interests: matrix models, topological recursion