![Piotr Sułkowski](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/piotr-sulkowski-150x150.jpg)
Piotr Sułkowski Professor (prof. dr hab.), Principal Investigator
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics & California Institute of Technology
Current members
![foto-Daniel-bw](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/foto-Daniel-bw-150x150.jpeg)
Daniel Bryan Postdoctoral researcher
Research interests: BPS structures, wall crossing phenomena, quivers, topological string theory, Lie algebras
email: Daniel.Bryan [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 4.78b
![foto-Luigi-bw](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/foto-Luigi-bw.jpeg)
Luigi Guerrini Postdoctoral researcher
Research interests: supersymmetric QFT, AdS/CFT correspondence, defects, JT gravity
email: Luigi.Guerrini [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 4.78b
![foto-pedram](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/foto-pedram-150x150.png)
Pedram Karimi PhD student
Research interests: dualities in string theory, topological quantum field theory, topological string theory
email: Pedram.Karimi [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 4.38 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 838
![foto-Souradeep-bw](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/foto-Souradeep-bw-150x150.jpeg)
Souradeep Purkayastha PhD student
Research interests: quantum field theory, mathematical physics, string theory, matrix models
email: Souradeep.Purkayastha [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 5.62 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 962
![foto-Abhigyan-bw](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/foto-Abhigyan-bw-150x150.jpeg)
Abhigyan Saha PhD student
Research interests: knot theory, string theory, quiver representation theory, non-commutative geometry
email: Abhigyan.Saha [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 5.67 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 962
![foto-Kenig-bw](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/foto-Kenig-bw-150x150.jpeg)
Jacek Kenig MSc student (2022-2023), PhD student
MSc thesis: “Formalizing Field Theories: A Study of the Geometric Cobordism Hypothesis”, September 2023, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: higher geometry and algebra, topological quantum field theory
email: Jacek.Kenig [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 4.38 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 838
Former postdocs and faculty members
![foto-Iorgov-bw](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/foto-Iorgov-bw.jpeg)
Nikolai Iorgov Professor (2023)
Research interests: quantum integrable systems, Painleve equations, Conformal Field Theory, representation theory
![foto-Bawane-bw](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/foto-Bawane-bw-150x150.jpg)
Aditya Bawane PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2020-2023)
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
Kento Osuga PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2021-2022)
Research interests: topological string theory, cohomological field theory, supersymmetric gauge theory, matrix models
![Carlos Perez Sanchez](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/carlos-perez-sanchez-150x150.jpg)
Carlos Perez Sanchez PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2019-2021)
Research interests: random matrices and tensor models, topological quantum field theories, noncommutative geometry, topological recursion
![Sibasish Banerjee](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/sibasish-banerjee-150x150.jpg)
Sibasish Banerjee PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2019)
Research interests: string theory and gauge theories, algebraic geometry, complex and symplectic geometry, number theory
![Vivek Kumar Singh](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/vivek-kumar-singh-150x150.jpg)
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
![Jakub Jankowski](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/jakub-jankowski-150x150.jpg)
Jakub Jankowski PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2017-2020)
Research interests: applied AdS/CFT correspondence, holographic description of real-time dynamics of systems with phase transitions, resurgence in hydrodynamics and Chern-Simons theories
![Miłosz Panfil](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/milosz-panfil-150x150.jpg)
Miłosz Panfil PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2015-2018)
Research interests: strongly correlated systems, integrable models, knot theory, topological field theories
email: Milosz.Panfil [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 5.10 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 910
![Ehsan Hatefi](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ehsan-hatefi-150x150.jpg)
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](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/petr-vasko-150x150.jpg)
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](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/hironori-mori-150x150.jpg)
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](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/masahide-manabe.jpg)
Masahide Manabe Postdoctoral researcher (2014-2017)
Research interests: matrix models, supersymmetric gauge theories, topological strings
![Junya Yagi](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/junya-yagi-150x150.jpg)
Junya Yagi PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (2015-2017)
Research interests: supersymmetric field theories, integrability, M5-branes
![Satoshi Nawata](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/satoshi-nawata-150x150.jpg)
Satoshi Nawata Postdoctoral researcher (2014-2015)
Research interests: supersymmetric gauge theories, knot invariants, dualities from M5-branes
![Grzegorz Łach](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/grzegorz-lach-150x150.png)
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](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/sebastian-zajac.jpg)
Sebastian Zając Postdoctoral researcher (2013-2014)
Research interests: matrix models, RNA topology, neutrino phenomenology
www: Personal webpageFormer PhD students
![foto-Zhuravlov-bw](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/foto-Zhuravlov-bw.jpeg)
Yurii Zhuravlov PhD student (2023)
Research interests: quantum integrable systems, Conformal Field Theory, Painleve equations, transport in low-dimensional quantum systems
![Helder Larraguivel](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/helder-larraguivel-150x150.jpg)
Helder Larraguivel PhD student (2016-2023)
PhD thesis: “A-polynomials, symmetries and permutohedra for quivers and knots”, January 2023, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: topological quantum field theory, matrix models
![Shi Cheng](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/shi-cheng-150x150.jpg)
Shi Cheng PhD student (2019-2022)
PhD thesis: “Refined topological vertex and supersymmetric gauge theories”, June 2022, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: topological recursion, matrix models, topological strings, SUSY gauge theories
![Dmitry Noshchenko](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/dmitry-noshchenko-150x150.jpg)
Dmitry Noshchenko PhD student (2017-2022)
PhD thesis: “Recursive structures for Nahm sums”, July 2022, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: dualities in mathematical physics, topological recursion, homotopy Lie algebras, quantum invariants of manifolds, integrability
![Paweł Ciosmak](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/pawel-ciosmak-150x150.jpg)
Paweł Ciosmak PhD student (2015-2020)
PhD thesis: “On quantum curves, Airy structures and supersymmetry”, November 2020, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: topological quantum field theory, matrix models
![Piotr Kucharski](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/piotr-kucharski.jpg)
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
Former students
![foto-Kenig-bw](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/foto-Kenig-bw-150x150.jpeg)
Jacek Kenig MSc student (2022-2023), PhD student
MSc thesis: “Formalizing Field Theories: A Study of the Geometric Cobordism Hypothesis”, September 2023, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: higher geometry and algebra, topological quantum field theory
email: Jacek.Kenig [at] fuw.edu.ploffice: 4.38 tel.: (+48) 22 55 32 838
![foto-Zdziennicki-2](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/foto-Zdziennicki-2-150x150.jpeg)
Michał Zdziennicki BSc student (2022-2023)
BSc thesis: “Kryształy czasu i spontaniczne łamanie symetrii”, September 2023, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: time crystals
![photo-Vebjorn-bw](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/photo-Vebjorn-bw-150x150.jpeg)
Vebjørn Gilberg MSc student (2018-2021)
MSc thesis: “On topological strings, Chern-Simons theory and the topological vertex”, April 2021, University of Oslo, advisors: Prof. Morten Hjort-Jensen, Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: topological string theory, topological vertex
![Artur Strąg](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/artur-strag-150x150.jpg)
Artur Strąg BSc student (2016-2017), 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.pl![Paweł Smoliński](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/pawel-smolinski-150x150.jpg)
Paweł Smoliński MSc student (2016-2017)
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](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/tomasz-linowski-150x150.jpg)
Tomasz Linowski BSc student (2016-2017), MSc student (2018-2019)
BSc thesis: “Low-dimensional models of quantum field theory”, July 2017, University of Warsaw, advisor: Piotr Sułkowski
MSc thesis: “Stabilizability of entangled two-mode Gaussian states”, June 2019, University of Warsaw, advisors: dr hab. Łukasz Rudnicki, Piotr Sułkowski
Research interests: low-dimensional quantum field theory
![Ernest Yeung](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ernest-yeung-150x150.jpg)
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](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/wojciech-gac-150x150.jpg)
Wojciech Gac BSc student (2013-2014)
Research interests: matrix models, topological recursion
Former overseas ERC team members
![Tudor Dimofte](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/tudor-dimofte-150x150.jpg)
Tudor Dimofte ERC investigator (2013-2019)
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](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/bertrand-eynard.jpg)
Bertrand Eynard ERC investigator (2013-2019)
Professor at the Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA, Saclay, France
www: Personal webpageemail: bertrand.eynard [at] cea.fr
![Sergei Gukov](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/sergei-gukov.jpg)
Sergei Gukov ERC investigator (2013-2019)
Professor at Caltech, USA
www: Personal webpage at Caltechemail: gukov [at] theory.caltech.edu
![Motohico Mulase](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/motohico-mulase.jpg)
Motohico Mulase ERC investigator (2013-2019)
Professor at the University of California, Davis, USA
www: Webpage at UC Davisemail: mulase [at] math.ucdavis.edu
![Marko Stošić](http://psulkows.fuw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/marko-stosic-150x150.jpg)
Marko Stošić ERC investigator (2013-2019)
Researcher at the ISR, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal
www: Webpage at ISR, ISTemail: mstosic [at] isr.ist.utl.pt