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Biography
2015 DPhil Pure Mathematics (Oxford)
2015-16 EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship (University of East Anglia)
2016-2019 Triennial Assistant Professor (Rutgers University)
2019 Senior Research Associate (UEA)
2019-2022 Nottingham Research Fellow
Since 2022 Assistant Professor in Mathematics
Research Summary
I am mainly interested in representation theory, quantum groups, tensor categories, categorification, and exploring applications of these areas to low-dimensional topology and mathematical physics.… read more
Recent Publications
KEMP, CAMERON, LAUGWITZ, ROBERT and SCHENKEL, ALEXANDER, 2025. Infinitesimal 2-braidings from 2-shifted Poisson structures Journal of Geometry and Physics. 212, 105456 FLAKE, JOHANNES, LAUGWITZ, ROBERT and POSUR, SEBASTIAN, 2025. Frobenius monoidal functors from ambiadjunctions and their lifts to Drinfeld centers Adv. Math.. (In Press.)
LAUGWITZ, ROBERT and MIEMIETZ, VANESSA, 2025. Differential graded cell 2-representations Arkiv för Matematik. (In Press.)
LAUGWITZ, ROBERT and MIEMIETZ, VANESSA, 2025. Pretriangulated 2-representations via dg algebra 1-morphisms Documenta Mathematica. (In Press.)
Current Research
I am mainly interested in representation theory, quantum groups, tensor categories, categorification, and exploring applications of these areas to low-dimensional topology and mathematical physics. Some of my research focuses on non-commutative generalizations of symmetric functions.
My research can best be classified with in the areas of Representation Theory (for example, of braided bialgebras, monoidal categories or 2-categories), Quantum Algebra (Hopf algebras, Nichols algebras, etc), Diagrammatic Tensor Categories, and further work in Noncommutative Algebra (Koszul algebras, noncommutative symmetric functions).
Part of my recent work relates to categorification (joint work with Vanessa Miemietz and You Qi). My work with Vladimir Retakh falls into the area of noncommutative geometry.
My preprints are available on the Arxiv.