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Yoav Len is a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics and Head of the Geometry Group at the University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statistics. His research is supported by the EPSRC New Investigator Award, and he actively supervises postdoctoral and doctoral researchers.
His research focuses on algebraic and tropical geometry, with strong interplay between combinatorics, non-archimedean geometry, and moduli spaces. He investigates the geometry of curves, divisors, Prym varieties, and enumerative problems using tropical techniques. His work often bridges algebraic and tropical worlds, proving deep structural results such as the commutativity of Prym construction with tropicalization.
His recent publications (2014–2025) show a consistent trend in tropical algebraic geometry, particularly in bitangents, tritangents, theta characteristics, Jacobians, and Brill–Noether theory. The keywords across his work include Prym varieties, chip-firing, moduli spaces, dual varieties, and tropical intersections, indicating a central theme of using combinatorial models to solve classical algebraic problems.
Scientific Awards:
- EPSRC New Investigator Award
Editorial Role: Yoav Len is an editor for the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section A (Mathematics).
Advising: He supervises a postdoc, Thibault Poiret, and a PhD student, Violeta Lopez.
Labs and Research Group: He leads the Geometry Group at the University of St Andrews, fostering collaborative research in pure mathematics.
