Congratulations to Sam Johnston who has been offered an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT hosted by Davesh Maulik starting this autumn. 

Following his PhD from Cambridge under the supervision of Mark Gross, Sam was awarded a Heilbronn Fellowship at Imperial College in 2023.  His research area is mirror symmetry and log enumerative geometry.  Much of Sam’s research involves investigating structures, suggested by physics, emerging from the behavior of curves in an algebraic variety. 

Early this year, Sam was awarded a Heilbronn Focused Grant to fund his workshop ‘Logarithmic Geometry and Smoothing Bridgeland Stability Conditions‘. The aim of the workshop was to establish an understanding of the space of stability conditions for logarithmically smooth curves and to share expertise between the logarithmic and non-commutative algebraic geometry communities.

Sam’s recent paper ‘Birational invariance in Punctured Log Gromov-Witten Theory” is set to appear in Algebraic Geometry in 2026, see arXiv link.

We wish Sam every success in his new position and future research at MIT.