My research interests include differential geometry, Lie theory and Poisson geometry. I am also deeply interested in applications thereof to physics.
Short bio
In September 2025, I am starting my position as a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven, working with Marco Zambon.
2021-2025: Ph.D. at CAMGSD, Instituto Superior Técnico. Topic: Fundamentals of Lie categories and Yang-Mills theory for multiplicative Ehresmann connections, under the supervision of Ioan Mărcuț and Pedro Resende.
2020-2021: Teaching assistant of mathematics at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.
2020: M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics at University of Ljubljana, FMF. Thesis: Gauge field theory, Yang–Mills–Higgs equations and spin structures on Lorentzian manifolds, supervised by Sašo Strle.
2017: B.Sc. in Physics at University of Ljubljana, FMF. Thesis: Wave function collapse upon measuring the number of photons in a cavity.
Contact
zan.grad [[at]] tecnico.ulisboa.pt