I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, and my research is in commutative algebra. Before joining UNL, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside, a postdoc at The University of Michigan, and a graduate student at the
University of Virginia,
where my PhD advisor was
Craig Huneke.
I am originally from Portugal, where I first learned commutative algebra
from
Maria Vaz Pinto at Instituto Superior Técnico.
My research is supported by NSF CAREER grant DMS-2236983, and I am co-PI on the NSF RTG grant Commutative Algebra at Nebraska.
Lecture notes: my lecture notes on symbolic powers are under construction and still missing several chapters. You can find other talk notes, as well as a few videos of talks here. For other lecture notes, including homological algebra, graduate algebra, linear algebra, and commutative algebra, see my teaching page.
I organize CHAMPS, showcasing the work of early-career researchers in commutative algebra and related fields on the US academic job market.
Ben Briggs, Josh Pollitz, and I are organizing an MSRI Summer School on Singularities in commutative algebra through cohomological methods, which will be held in July 2026.
My research is supported by NSF CAREER grant DMS-2236983, and I am co-PI on the NSF RTG grant Commutative Algebra at Nebraska.
Lecture notes: my lecture notes on symbolic powers are under construction and still missing several chapters. You can find other talk notes, as well as a few videos of talks here. For other lecture notes, including homological algebra, graduate algebra, linear algebra, and commutative algebra, see my teaching page.
I organize CHAMPS, showcasing the work of early-career researchers in commutative algebra and related fields on the US academic job market.
Ben Briggs, Josh Pollitz, and I are organizing an MSRI Summer School on Singularities in commutative algebra through cohomological methods, which will be held in July 2026.
Last updated: January 10, 2026