Kenny.De.Commer@vub.be
Prof. Kenny De Commer received his PhD in Mathematics at KU Leuven, as an FWO aspirant, with the thesis `Galois coactions for algebraic and locally compact quantum groups’ (advisor A. Van Daele). He then had a postdoctoral position 2009-2011 under the ERC-advanced grant (supported guidance of R. Longo at the Università di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy). From 2011-2013, he was a Lecturer at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France. From 2014-2019, he was appointed tenure track research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and as of February 2019 has been associate professor at VUB. In the period 2020-2023, he acted as the head of the department of mathematics and data science (WIDS) of VUB. His research interests are in representation theory in the analytic setting, and more particularly its connections to operator algebras, quantum groups and category theory.