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Jakub Witaszek is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern University. He previously held the position of tenure-track Assistant Professor at Princeton University from 2022 to 2025 and served as a D.J. Lewis Postdoctoral Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan from 2019 to 2022. He also spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute from 2018 to 2019. Witaszek completed his PhD at Imperial College London, under the supervision of Paolo Cascini, from 2014 to 2018. His research is primarily focused on the intersection of algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, particularly in positive mixed characteristics, birational geometry, the Minimal Model Program, and singularities. He is actively involved in organizing the Algebraic Geometry seminar at Northwestern University and contributes to teaching through various academic events and documented notes.
Northwestern University • Evanston, IL
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Tenure-track Assistant Professor.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
D.J. Lewis Postdoctoral Assistant Professor.
Institute for Advanced Study and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute • Princeton, NJ
Postdoctoral fellow.
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