Dr Mareike Dressler | UNSW Research

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Biography

In February 2022, I joined UNSW Sydney as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor, tenure-track) in the School of Mathematics and Statistics.

Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI MiS) in Leipzig working in the Convexity, Optimization and Data Science research group lead by Venkat Chandrasekaran and affiliated to the Nonlinear Algebra group of Bernd Sturmfels. From 2019-2021, I was a Stefan E. Warschawski Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) where my postdoc mentors were Jiawang Nie and Bill Helton. I spent Fall 2018 as a Semester Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University in the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) participating in the semester program on Nonlinear Algebra.
In May 2018, I completed my PhD at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main under the supervision of Thorsten Theobald.

Research Interests

Real and Computational Algebraic Geometry
Polynomial and Convex Optimization
Matrix and Tensor Computation
Convex Geometry
Applications in Data Science and Machine Learning

For more information, see my personal website.

My Qualifications

2018, PhD in Mathematics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (supervisor Thorsten Theobald)
2013, M.Sc. in Mathematics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
2010, B.Sc. in Mathematics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

My Research Supervision

Supervision keywords

polynomial optimization

convex optimization

geometry

computational algebraic geometry

real algebraic geometry

Areas of supervision

I am always looking for enthusiastic and talented research students (postgraduate students/postdocs/honours students).

If you are interested in real and computational algebraic geometry and polynomial and convex optimization, please contact me directly to discuss a possible project.

Advice for prospective students

UNSW students: Send me an email or knock on my door and we can discuss options for undergraduate, Honours or PhD projects.

Aust/NZ students (non-UNSW): If you are interested in doing an Hons or PhD project in any of these areas drop me an email. UNSW offers relocation scholarships to assist in transferring to UNSW for suitably qualified students.

International students: UNSW offers a variety of scholarships, ranging from tuition scholarships and full tuition plus stipend. Please see the UNSW scholarships website, or send me an email (mentioning this webpage).