About
Chunyi Li is an Associate Professor at the Mathematics Institute (University of Warwick) and a Royal Society University Research Fellow. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2014–2017) and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Warwick (2017–2020). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014) and a BA from Peking University (2009). His research focuses on algebraic geometry, derived categories, stability conditions, and moduli spaces, with applications to birational geometry and categorical methods.
Education:
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), Peking University, Beijing, China (2009)
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014)
Research Interests:
- Derived categories and their stability conditions
- Moduli spaces of sheaves and Bridgeland stability
- Birational geometry of algebraic varieties
- Categorical methods in algebraic geometry
Awards and Grants:
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship (current)
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2017–2020)
- ERC Starting Grant WallXBirGeom (as researcher, 2014–2020)
Key Research Themes: His work explores foundational aspects of derived categories, including their geometric implications and applications to moduli problems. Recent studies focus on stability conditions on Fano varieties, cubic fourfolds, and hyperkähler manifolds, as well as categorical Torelli theorems and birational geometry.
