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• PhD in Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 2013
• MSc in Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, 2008
• BSc in Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, 2006
• Propédeutique I in Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, 2004

Dr van Garrel grew up in the German part of Switzerland speaking French at home. He did his undergraduate studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne with his Master thesis in number theory done with Professor Ken Ribet at the University of California Berkeley.

After that he went for his doctoral studies to the California Institute of Technology to work with Professor Tom Graber, one of the pioneers of Gromov-Witten theory. The completion of his PhD was followed by some postdoctoral positions. For the first he was a member of a thematic program on Calabi-Yau varieties at the Fields Institute in Toronto. Then he was a researcher at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study in Seoul. During that time, partly through the organization of 3 conferences on it, he learned the Gross-Siebert program, which then earned him a post with Prof. Bernd Siebert at the University of Hamburg.

This was followed by an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Warwick with Professor Miles Reid FRS. After a four-month visitor stay at the Institute for Theoretical Studies of ETH Zürich visiting the group of Professor Rahul Pandharipande, he started his current post at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

Dr van Garrel is interested in supervising PhD students in Algebraic Geometry, Mirror Symmetry and Enumerative Geometry.

Research Themes

• Enumerative Geometry: Log Gromov-Witten theory, how it relates to other curve counting theories and to Mirror Constructions.
• Birational Geometry: Rationality Questions in Gross-Siebert families.
• Gross-Siebert programme, Mirror Constructions and Mirror Symmetry Results.