Merlin Christ
I am a Professor (Bonn Junior Fellow, temporary W2) in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Bonn.
Contact information
Endenicher Allee 60 53115 Bonn Office 1.004 E-mail: christ (at) uni-bonn (dot) de
Research interests
Higher category theory, representation theory, noncommutative algebraic geometry.
Teaching
Winter 2025/2026: Seminar on cluster algebras.
Publications and preprints
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Induction in perverse schobers and cluster tilting theory
Preprint: arxiv:2509.01689. -
∞-categorical group quotients via skew group algebras
Preprint: arxiv:2501.13666. -
Perverse schobers, stability conditions and quadratic differentials II: relative graded Brauer graph algebras
(with Fabian Haiden and Yu Qiu)
Preprint: arxiv:2407.00154. Submitted. - Lax Addivity (with Tobias Dyckerhoff and Tashi Walde)
Preprint: arxiv:2402.12251. Submitted. -
Relative Calabi-Yau structures and perverse schobers on surfaces
Preprint: arXiv:2311.16597. Submitted. -
Perverse schobers, stability conditions and quadratic differentials I (with Fabian Haiden and Yu Qiu)
Preprint: arxiv:2303.18249. Submitted. -
Complexes of stable ∞-categories (with Tobias Dyckerhoff and Tashi Walde)
Preprint: arxiv:2301.02606. Submitted. -
Cluster theory of topological Fukaya categories
Preprint: arXiv:2209.06595. Submitted.
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Geometric models for the derived categories of Ginzburg algebras of n-angulated surfaces via local-to-global principles
Preprint: arXiv:2107.10091. Submitted. -
Ginzburg algebras of triangulated surfaces and perverse schobers
Forum Math. Sigma, 10:e8, 2022, doi:10.1017/fms.2022.1. arXiv:2101.01939. -
Spherical monadic adjunctions of stable infinity categories
Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN, 2023(15):13153–13213, 2022, doi:10.1093/imrn/rnac187. arXiv:2010.05294.
News
Christoph Thiele awarded Brouwer Medal 2026
Christoph Thiele and Floris van Doorn awarded ERC Synergy Grant
30. 1. 26: Colloquium on the occasion of the retirement of Wolfgang Lück
Henning Heller receives Montucla Prize 2025
Thoralf Räsch receives Fakultät teaching award
Jan Schröer receives university teaching award
Floris van Doorn and coauthors receive the Skolem Award
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics receives 7 additional years of funding
Markus Hausmann receives Minkwoski medal of the DMV
Rajula Srivastava receives Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize
Dennis Gaitsgory receives Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2025
Daniel Huybrechts elected as member of Leopoldina
Catharina Stroppel appointed Honorary Doctor at Uppsala University
Angkana Rüland receives Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025