Affiliation: Utrecht University
Keywords: Analysis, mathematical physics, partial differential equations, operator theory, Quantum Field Theory, differential geometry
Full profile: Michal is a mathematician working at Utrecht University. He earned his PhD in Göttingen in 2013 and following his first post-doc in Orsay, he held permanent positions in Grenoble since 2014 (where he earned his habilitation in 2018) and then in Cergy Paris since 2019, where he is now on leave on absence from a professor position. He is currently also part-time research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has also held shorter visiting positions in Cambridge, Stanford, Bures-sur-Yvette (IHES) and in Freiburg (FRIAS), and has organized interdisciplinary conferences and thematic programmes at prestigious institutions including the Institut Henri Poincaré, the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the Institut Fourier and the Ecole de Physique des Houches. His work was funded by grants from national agencies including the French ANR and the Dutch NWO. In 2023 he was elected Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and in his early career he won in 2010 the Maria Bardadin-Otwinowska Prize for his work on Schrödinger operators.
His primary areas of research are mathematical analysis and mathematical physics, and his main interests lie in the application of methods from partial differential equations, microlocal or asymptotic analysis and spectral theory, often in geometric contexts. He specializes in Quantum Field Theory on curved spacetimes and has worked on problems including Hadamard states, renormalisation, AdS/CFT correspondence, QFT in external potentials, gauge theories and index theory. More generally, he is interested in various problems where there is a relationship between classical and quantum dynamics, or where local and global aspects are tied together in an intricate way.