Mateusz Michalek University of Konstanz

Curriculum vitae

Mateusz Michalek — Professor of Real Algebraic Geometry, University of Konstanz. ORCID 0000-0002-6081-786X.

Full publication list (101 items)

Current Position

  • 2020–presentFull Professor (W3), University of Konstanz

Previous Positions

  • 2024–2025Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • 2018–2019Associate Professor, Aalto University, Helsinki
  • 2017–2020W2 Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
  • 2012–2019Assistant Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
  • Sep 2016–Dec 2016Visiting Research Scholar, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto
  • Aug 2016–Sep 2016Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
  • Feb 2016–Jun 2016Postdoc, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Aug 2014–Jan 2016Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley
  • Feb 2014–Jul 2014Postdoc, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Sep 2013–Nov 2013Postdoc, University of Barcelona and Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona
  • Jul 2013–Aug 2013Leibniz Fellow, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
  • Jul 2012–Jun 2013Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
  • Apr 2012–Jul 2012Postdoc, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Education

  • 2008M.Sc. in pure mathematics, graduation with honours, Jagiellonian University, Cracow
  • 2012Ph.D. in Mathematics, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (cotutelle) Advisor: Laurent Manivel
  • 2012Ph.D. in Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (cotutelle) Advisor: Jarosław Wiśniewski

Honors and Awards

  • 2024–2025Member at IAS (Special Year – Charles Simonyi Endowment)
  • 2016START Scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science
  • 2015Kuratowski Award
  • 2014Prize for the Young Mathematicians of the Polish Mathematical Society
  • 2012European Postdoctoral Institute Fellow
  • 2009Contest for the Best Student of the Jagiellonian University, first place
  • 2008Franciszek Leja's Prize for Young Mathematicians
  • 2006–2011Scholarships including: Sapere Auso, Scholarship of the Polish Ministry MNiSW, Scholarship of the French Government, Scholarship of the City of Cracow for most talented students, Scholarship Mobilité International Rhône-Alpes

Competitive Research Funding

  • 2026-2028DFG individual grant, EUR 225,944
  • 2024–2028TENORS grant, PI (financing for one PhD student, Horizon Europe's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant in cooperation with other universities; total financing: EUR 4,049,582.40)
  • 2022–2025DFG individual grant, EUR 209,400
  • 2017Grant Sonata Bis from the Polish National Science Center, 2016/22/E/ST1/00574, PI (PLN 902,650)
  • 2015Grant Iuventus Plus from the Polish Ministry of Science, 0301/IP3/2015/73, PI (PLN 300,000)
  • 2015PRIME DAAD fellow under Europe's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
  • 2013Grant Sonata from the Polish National Science Center, 2012/05/D/ST1/01063, PI (PLN 280,800)
  • 2012Grant Preludium from the Polish National Science Center, 2011/01/N/ST1/05424, PI (PLN 80,000)
  • 2011Grant of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, N N201 413539, PI (PLN 50,000)

Doctoral Supervision

Completed Ph.D. students
  • Martin Vodička, 2022 (Airbus Claude Dornier PhD Research Award)
  • Tim Seynnaeve, 2020
  • Paul Görlach, 2020 (with Bernd Sturmfels)
Current Ph.D. students
  • Matěj Doležálek, since 2024 (with Giorgio Ottaviani)
  • Mario Bauer, since 2023 (with Claus Scheiderer)

Postdoctoral Mentoring

  • 2020–2025, 2026–2027Rodica Dinu
  • 2020–2025Hanieh Keneshlou (habilitation done at Uni Konstanz)
  • 2022–2023Austin Conner
  • 2017Emanuele Ventura
  • 2017–2020Emre Sertoz
  • 2018Laura Colmenarejo
  • 2026–2027Maciej Gałązka

Selected Invited Talks

  • 2026AGSTA Conference on Tensors and Related Topics, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
  • 2026Focused Workshop on Asymptotic Tensor Parameters, Erdős Center, Rényi Institute, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2026Algebraic Geometry 2026, Vason, Italy
  • 2025FPSAC 2025, Sapporo, Japan (plenary speaker)
  • 2025ITCS 25, New York, USA
  • 2025Special Year Seminar, Princeton, USA
  • 2025TENORS Workshop, Konstanz, Germany (2 talks)
  • 2025Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
  • 2025Series of 5 lectures, Pusan University, Busan, South Korea
  • 2024Series of 3 talks at IAS, Princeton, USA
  • 2024Geometry of Matroids Workshop, Princeton, USA
  • 2024Intercity Seminar, Bern, Switzerland
  • 2024Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
  • 2023TU Berlin, Germany
  • 2023Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • 2022Combinatorial, Computational and Applied Algebraic Geometry, Seattle, USA
  • 2022Geometry and Complexity Theory, Toulouse, France
  • 2022155 Years of Commutative Algebra, Osnabrück, Germany
  • 2022University of Bern, Switzerland
  • 2022Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
  • 2021SIAM AG (online)
  • 2021University of Seville (online)
  • 2021IMPANGA 20, Bedlewo, Poland (online)
  • 2020University of Trieste, Italy (online)
  • 2020Texas A&M, College Station, USA (online)
  • 2020Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
  • 2020University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • 2019MEGA 2019, Madrid, Spain (plenary speaker)
  • 2019University of Chicago, USA
  • 2019Texas A&M, College Station, USA
  • 2019University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2019University of Warwick, UK
  • 2019Duke University, USA
  • 2019SIAM AG, Bern, Switzerland
  • 2019Oberwolfach Workshop on Toric Geometry, Germany

Additional invited talks from 2007–2018 include lectures at UC Berkeley, MSRI, RIMS Kyoto, KAIST, Oberwolfach, the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Technische Universität Berlin, Université Joseph Fourier, and other universities and conferences in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Selected Conference and Workshop Organization

  • 2026Oberwolfach mini-workshop on Enumerative Geometry of Matroids, December (with Piotr Pokora)
  • 2026AGSTA Conference on Tensors and Related Topics, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
  • 2025Commutative Algebra and Applications at the Fields Institute
  • 2025Oberwolfach Graduate Seminar: Modern Algebraic Geometry in Algebraic Combinatorics and Tensors, Banach Center, Bedlewo, Poland (organizer and lecturer)
  • 2019Workshop on Theoretical Computer Science and Algebraic Geometry
  • 2018Session “Geometry of Tensors” at the SIAM Annual Meeting
  • 2018Northern German Algebraic Geometry Seminar NoGAGS 2018
  • 2018Chow Lectures 2018
  • 2017Chow Lectures 2017
  • 201740th Autumn School in Algebraic Geometry, “Binomial Ideals”, Łukęcin (with Maria Donten-Bury)
  • 2016Session “Algebraic Statistics and Symbolic Computation” (main organizer: Prof. Takayama)
  • 2015IMPANGA 2015

Editorial and Refereeing Activity

  • Associate Editor, Collectanea Mathematica
  • 2020–2025Editor, Linear and Multilinear Algebra
  • Editor, Vector bundles, Schubert varieties, equivariant cohomology and characteristic classes, EMS Series of Congress Reports
  • Referee for 50+ journals, including Acta Mathematica, Inventiones Mathematicae, Duke Mathematical Journal, Journal of the AMS, Advances in Mathematics, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, IMRN, and Foundations of Computational Mathematics
  • Referee for conferences, including FPSAC, FOCS, MEGA, and Banff IRS Applications
  • Reviewer for books with Birkhäuser and Cambridge University Press

Departmental Service

  • Internationalisation Officer of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Konstanz

Membership in Scientific Societies

  • Polish Mathematical Society (PTM)

Early Honors

  • Silver Medal, International Mathematical Olympiad
  • First Place, Polish Mathematical Olympiad
  • Grand First Prize, International Mathematics Competition for University Students

Publications

See the publication list — 101 books, preprints, articles and surveys.