Bridging Theory and Experiment

Beatrice Pozzetti | Tobias Schwerdt - The STRUCTURES Cluster of Excellence at Heidelberg University has been joined by three new professors, Beatrice Pozzetti, Razvan Gurau and Lauriane Chomaz. They are leading experts in their respective fields of pure mathematics, mathematical physics, and experimental physics, and are now driving interdisciplinary collaboration forward - not only within STRUCTURES but also at their departments and institutes. In accordance with a key idea of the cluster - that underlying all physical structure is mathematical structure - their work bridges theoretical and experimental approaches in these fields, and will contribute to the cluster's research across disciplines and scales. Beatrice Pozzetti first joined Heidelberg University as a junior mathematics professor in 2017, and accepted a professorial appointment with tenure track as part of the STRUCTURES community in July 2020. With her independent research group, funded in part through the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation, Prof. Pozzetti is conducting fundamental research into geometry and its applications in other scientific disciplines - from computer science to theoretical physics. She is a member of the Research Station Geometry and Dynamics at the Mathematical Institute of Ruperto Carola and a project leader on the DFG priority programme SPP 2026 Geometry at Infinity, which seeks to combine and transcend existing approaches in differential geometry, geometric topology, and global analysis.