Alexander Uhlmann
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cambridge Image Analysis, University of Cambridge.
Hi, I’m Alex. I am a mathematician interested in developing methods for messy systems, where disorder, heterogeneity or incomplete observations challenge standard models and analysis. My background is in spectral theory, partial differential equations and operator theory, drawing on dynamical systems and probability.
I am currently a PDRA in the Cambridge Image Analysis group at DAMTP, hosted by Prof. Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb. I work within the MakingAI project in technical art history, in collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum/Hamilton Kerr Institute and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. The project brings together imaging data from paintings, ancient Egyptian coffins and pre-Hispanic ceramics. My role is to develop mathematical tools for aligning and combining these complementary measurements, helping heritage scientists investigate how objects were made and compare materials and techniques across collections.
Prior to Cambridge, I completed my PhD at ETH Zürich’s Seminar for Applied Mathematics under the supervision of Prof. Habib Ammari. My research concerned the spectral properties of high-contrast metamaterials where classical assumptions of spatial periodicity or energy conservation are violated. I am also a contributor to the subwavelength-physics package, which implements fast numerics for the subwavelength resonance problem in a variety of settings.
Feel free to reach out: aju27 [at] cam.ac.uk.