Claudia Scheimbauer

Prof. Claudia Scheimbauer is a tenure-track Professor at TU München’s Department of Mathematics, affiliated with the TUM School of Computation, Information, and Technology (CIT). Her research focuses on the intersection of mathematical physics and algebraic topology, particularly topological field theories (TFTs), higher category theory, and derived symplectic geometry. She has pioneered work on extended TFTs using factorization algebras and has contributed to foundational questions in categorical structures like 2-Segal spaces and dagger categories.

She is a Principal Investigator in the SFB/CRC 1624 on Higher Structures and the prolonged SFB/CRC 1085 on Higher Invariants. Her group includes 1 PhD student (Anja Švraka) and 5 postdocs (Pelle Steffens, Walker Stern, Will Stewart, Jackson van Dyke, Yang Yang). She organizes workshops like Spaces of Tensor Categories (2025) and co-organized conferences on categorical symmetries and geometric topology.

Her teaching spans algebraic topology, bordism theories, and category theory. Notable collaborations include work with Damien Calaque on cobordism categories and with Theo Johnson-Freyd on twisted TFTs. She is also involved in initiatives like the FACETS of mathematicians series addressing academic culture.