Sigrid Yanara Palacios Castillo

Sigrid Yanara Palacios Castillo is a Researcher at the University of Cologne's Mathematical Institute, affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. She holds a Dr. phil. (PhD) in Mathematics from the University of Bonn (2018) and conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University (2019–2021). Her research focuses on Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory, and Arithmetic Geometry, with applications to cryptography and geometric representation theory.

• Education:
  • PhD in Mathematics, University of Bonn, 2018
  • Postdoc, Princeton University, 2019–2021

Her work explores moduli spaces of abelian varieties, p-adic cohomology, and geometric approaches to the Langlands program. She has been recognized with the Award for Outstanding Research in Arithmetic Geometry (2021).

• Awards:
  • Award for Outstanding Research in Arithmetic Geometry (2021)
• Advising & Grants:
  • Supervised PhD students: Lisa Müller (2022), Johannes Weber (2023)
  • Recipient of an ERC Starting Grant (2022–2027)
• Labs/Teams: Part of the Arithmetic Geometry Research Group at Cologne, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects.