Africa & outreach

A lot of my work centres around research development across Africa. This page collects that work in one place. Since 2014 I've taught, supervised and organised in places across the continent. I also sit on the programme committee of a fellowship that brings African mathematicians to Berlin.

Teaching and supervision

  • Lecturer, Makerere University, Kampala April 2022 – January 2023 — Algebraic Geometry for graduate students. Returned in August 2023 as guest lecturer for a graduate seminar on advanced topics in commutative algebra and geometry.
  • Lecture course on lattice polytopes Algebra and Geometry from Africa, a Mathematics for Humanity programme, ICMS Edinburgh — May 2025
  • Mini-course on moduli spaces and group actions Equivariant methods in geometry, University of Ibadan — January 2024
  • Guest lecturer, AIMS Ghana Computational introduction to algebraic geometry — 2020 and 2021/22
  • Introduction to homological algebra 1st workshop of the Eastern Africa Algebra Research Group — December 2021
  • Facilitator and speaker EAUMP–ICTP summer school on homological methods in algebra and geometry, University of Dar-es-Salaam — July 2018

Organisation and governance

  • Programme committee, Young African Mathematicians fellowship MATH+, Berlin — ongoing
  • International collaborator Eastern Africa Algebra Research Group — ongoing
  • Nominated Caroline Namanya for a MATH+ Hanna Neumann Fellowship Awarded 2026. I wrote the application; we are also working together on Bott vanishing and finiteness of automorphisms.
  • Invited talk, Building collaborations with Africa Building partnerships with institutions and researchers in Africa, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam — June 2024
  • Co-organiser, conference in algebraic geometry Makerere University, Kampala — 2027, forthcoming
  • Organiser, workshop Equivariant methods in geometry University of Ibadan — January 2024, funded by the Clay Mathematics Institute
  • Organiser, workshop on homological algebra and discrete geometry Makerere University, Kampala — 2021

Schools and the public

  • Why mathematics? Two public talks in Kampala while I was lecturing at Makerere — one to students about to begin university, one to pupils at a state secondary school
  • Calculate with Africa: transforming the world through mathematics Meridian podcast, Berlin University Alliance — 2024
  • A-level mathematics teaching and university-application mentoring St Peter's Kubatana High School, Harare, Zimbabwe — 2014. Alongside teaching, I helped pupils put together applications to international university programmes.
  • Public expository talks “What is…?” Seminar, Berlin Mathematical School — 2019

Research visits and the rest are in my CV.