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.
Events
- EUROYoung Workshop, Lugano, 14-16 October 2026.
- FoCM 2026, Vienna, 8-18 July, 2026.
- Dutch Days of Combinatorics, Groningen, 16-17 June 2026.
- N&O Seminar, Amsterdam, 13 May 2026. Slides.
- Mittagsseminar, Zurich, 13 Nov 2025. Slides.
Publications
- Benign nonconvexity of synchronization landscape induced by graph skeletons (HJW, Ulrik Brandes). Preprint.
- Global synchronization beyond dense graphs: the case of threshold graphs (HJW, Ulrik Brandes), Preprint. Submitted.
- PhD Thesis: Global synchronization of inductively defined graph classes: a local-to-global perspective. Advisors: Prof. Ulrik Brandes, Prof. Afonso Bandeira (second advisor).
- Global boundedness of the curl for a p-curl system in convex domains (HJW, Xingfei Xiang). Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 2023.