Mateusz Michalek

Mateusz Michalek

Professor of Real Algebraic Geometry
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Konstanz

Room F414, Fach D 197
78457 Konstanz, Germany
mateusz.michalek@uni-konstanz.de

I work at the meeting point of algebraic geometry, combinatorics and their applications. My research relates geometric questions to problems about polytopes, matroids, tensors and group representations — and carries the answers back to statistics, complexity theory, phylogenetics and physics.

Selected recent work

  • 2026
    On the maximum likelihood degree of Gaussian graphical models
    Carlos Améndola, Rodica Andreea Dinu, Mateusz Michalek, Martin Vodička · to appear in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (2026)
  • 2026
    Degree of the Gaussian graphical model of the cycle
    Rodica Andreea Dinu, Mateusz Michalek, Martin Vodička · to appear in Forum of Mathematics: Sigma (2026)
  • 2026
    Characteristic numbers and chromatic polynomial of a tensor
    Austin Conner, Mateusz Michalek · Forum of Mathematics: Sigma 14 (2026), e108
  • 2025
    The Algebraic Degree of Coupled Oscillators
    Paul Breiding, Mateusz Michalek, Leonid Monin, Simon Telen · Advances in Mathematics 480 (2025)
  • 2025
    Topological classification of driven-dissipative nonlinear systems
    Greta Villa, Javier del Pino, Vincent Dumont, Gianluca Rastelli, Mateusz Michalek, Alexander Eichler, Oded Zilberberg · Science Advances Vol 11, Issue 33 (2025)

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Invitation to Nonlinear Algebra
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Invitation to Nonlinear Algebra

with Bernd Sturmfels · Graduate Studies in Mathematics 211
American Mathematical Society, 2021

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Positions

  • 2020 –
    Full Professor (W3), Konstanz
  • 2024 – 2025
    Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • 2017 – 2020
    Group Leader, MPI MiS Leipzig
  • 2018 – 2019
    Associate Professor, Aalto University

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