Julian Chaidez

Julian Chaidez is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. His research focuses on smooth dynamical systems, symplectic topology, and symplectic field theory (SFT). He completed his PhD at UC Berkeley in 2021 under Michael Hutchings, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University/IAS (2021-2023) and UCLA (2021 as UC President's Fellow).

He teaches advanced graduate courses such as Math 641 (Floer Theory) and Math 540 (Algebraic Topology) at USC. Previously taught courses include UC Berkeley's Math 16B, Math 53, and symplectic topology seminars. Active in organizing academic events like the USC Topology Seminar and co-organizing reading groups on monopole Floer homology.

Research interests include contact homology, Reeb dynamics, symplectic capacities, and applications to geometric topology. Collaborates with researchers like Oliver Edtmair, Ben Wormleighton, and Shira Tanny on projects involving SFT spectral gaps, convex contact forms, and non-semisimple invariants of 4-manifolds.