I am Deniz Genlik, a  J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This is a postdoctoral position named after Joseph Leo Doob. My postdocoral mentor is Felix Janda.

My research area is algebraic geometry, and my research interests are accumulated around Gromov-Witten theory. Mostly, I have been thinking about Gromov-Witten invariants, mirror symmetry, crepant resolutions, holomorphic anomaly equations, Hilbert schemes of points, and certain tools to study these. Recently, I started to be interested in more combinatorial aspects of moduli spaces of stable curves.

Before coming to UIUC, I completed my Ph.D. at the Ohio State University under the supervision of Hsian-Hua Tseng. Before that, I completed my M.Sc. thesis under the supervision of Sergey Finashin at Middle East Technical University.