About me
I am a tenure-track professor at TU München. I am interested in the intersection of mathematical physics and algebraic topology, more precisely in the mathematical study of field theories using methods from homotopy theory. My research is concerned with several questions in the realm of functorial extended field theories and higher structures using tools like factorization algebras/factorization homology and derived symplectic geometry. I am also interested in the required higher categorical foundations for using homotopy theory in the study of field theories.
News
Most of 2025 I will be on maternity leave. Hence I will not have any open positions in 2025.
The Simons Lectures on Categorical Symmetries are now online here. These are lecture notes from the 2022 and 2023 summer schools of the Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries.
Activities
In July 2025 I am coorganizing a workshop on Spaces of Tensor Categories. Register now!
In February 2025 our group organized a Workshop on Gray Products and Lax Constructions in Raitenhaslach.
Our SFB/CRC 1624 Higher Structures, moduli spaces and integrability started in 2024. I am a PI in the project on "Stratified spaces and factorization homology techniques". We will have a
The SFB/CRC 1085 Higher Invariants was prolonged for the third funding period 2022-2025. I am a PI in 2 projects. I am a coorganizer of a conference on Functorial Field Theories in August 2023.
I am a PI in the Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries. I was a coorganizer of the 2023 conference and summer school in SwissMap Research Station in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
Research group
I currently have 1 PhD student, Anja Švraka, and 5 postdocs: Former members:- Eilind Karlsson successfully defended her thesis in February 2025!
- Tashi Walde was a postdoc in our group April 2020 -- March 2024 and a guest April 2024 -- March 2025. He has been a postdoc in Regensburg since April 2024.
How to get in touch?
scheimbauer AT tum.de
office 02.12.040
Technische Universität München
Zentrum Mathematik
Bolzmannstraße 3
85748 Garching
Germany