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Oisín Flynn-Connolly

Postdoc in mathematics (homotopy theory, categorical probability) at Leiden University
Leiden University · Leiden, Netherlands · academic
flynncoo.github.io

Oisín Flynn-Connolly is an Irish mathematician working in higher algebra and algebraic topology. He represented Ireland at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2014 and 2015, earning honourable mentions both years. He completed a PhD at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (2021-2024) under Grégory Ginot, and since November 2024 has been a postdoc at Leiden University with Henning Basold in the StyLo team, working on homotopical and coalgebraic approaches to optimization algorithms and a probabilistic approach to homotopy theory.

Details
LocationLeiden, Netherlands
Company siteuniversiteitleiden.nl
UniversityUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord
homotopy theoryoperadsE-infinity algebrasMassey productscategorical probabilityhigher algebraenriched category theorycoalgebraMarkov categoriescategorical logicrational homotopy theoryoptimization

Competition record

Ireland · IMO

2014 · Honourable mention · Rank 3872015 · Honourable mention · Rank 365