Thomas Massoni

Faculty hosts:  Yakov Eliashberg and Mohammed Abouzaid

Affiliated with: Department of Mathematics, School of Humanities and Sciences

Thomas Massoni earned his doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University in 2024. Before coming to Stanford, he was a C.L.E. Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is focused on symplectic topology and its connections to low-dimensional topology and dynamical systems. In his doctoral studies, he proved a converse to a famous result of Eliashberg and Thurston, developing a new method to construct taut foliations from contact structures. At Stanford, he will pursue research on the interplay among Anosov flows, taut foliations, and symplectic geometry, using tools from Floer theory to investigate fundamental questions about these structures. He will also work on developing a framework for studying general contact manifolds via a new class of invariants he calls wrapped sutured bimodules.