I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Monique Laurent in the Networks & Optimization group at CWI in Amsterdam. Previously, I received my PhD from ETH Zurich. In my doctoral work, I worked on global synchronization in the Kuramoto model, showing how certain graph structures eliminate spurious second-order stationary points in the associated nonconvex energy landscape.
PhD Thesis: Global synchronization of inductively defined graph classes: a local-to-global perspective.
Advisors: Prof. Ulrik Brandes, Prof. Afonso Bandeira (second advisor)
Events
- EUROYoung Workshop, Lugano, 14-16 October 2026.
- FoCM 2026, Vienna, 8-18 July, 2026.
- Dutch Netsci Summer Symposium, Leiden, 24 June 2026.
- Dutch Days of Combinatorics, Groningen, 16-17 June 2026.
- RAGA 2026, Eindhoven, 1-2 June 2026.
- Mittagsseminar, Zurich, 13 Nov 2025. Slides.
Publications
- Global synchronization via modular decomposition (HJW, Ulrik Brandes). In preparation.
- Benign nonconvexity of synchronization landscape induced by graph skeletons (HJW, Ulrik Brandes). Preprint.
- Threshold graphs are globally synchronizing (HJW, Ulrik Brandes), Preprint. Submitted.
- Global boundedness of the curl for a p-curl system in convex domains (HJW, Xingfei Xiang). Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 2023.