Robin J. Sroka accepted into the Emmy Noether Programme
Approval for the project of mathematician Dr. Robin J. Sroka: The German Research Foundation (DFG) has awarded the researcher working at the University of Münster with approximately 1.3 million euros in funding as part of the Emmy Noether Programme. Over the next six years, this will enable him to establish his own research group “Cohomology and K-Theory: Exploring New Connections”.
"Münster offers the ideal environment for the new research group," says Sroka. "Thanks to the Cluster of Excellence ‘Mathematics Münster’ and the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity’, there is an exceptional density of experts from various fields of mathematics here. Since our project focuses on connections between different areas, we will benefit greatly from the exchange with our colleagues."
The DFG’s Emmy Noether programme aims to provide outstanding early-career researchers with academic independence and prepare them for a university professorship.
About the project
(Co)homological stability is a celebrated principle in algebraic topology that connects the (co)homology of the general linear groups of a ring to its algebraic K-theory. The work of Sroka’s Emmy Noether Research Group examines subtle variants of this principle beyond the realm of algebraic topology, shedding light on questions from algebra and representation theory, to geometry and dynamics. This is achieved in three interrelated research projects exploring new connections between (co)homological and K-theoretic invariants.
Profile
Dr. Robin J. Sroka has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster since 2023 and as an investigator at the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster since 2024. Currently, he is also pursuing part of his research on "High-dimensional cohomology of arithmetic groups” within a "Young Research Group", together with his colleague Dr. Benjamin Brück. Before coming to Münster, Sroka was a postdoctoral researcher at McMaster University in Canada and a junior fellow at the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden. He completed his doctorate in 2021 at the University of Copenhagen.