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.

Before coming to UIUC, I completed my Ph.D.  at the Ohio State University under supervision of Hsian-Hua Tseng. Before that, I completed my MSc thesis under the supervision of Sergey Finashin at Middle East Technical University. During this period, I worked on symplectic topology.

If you would like more details, you can have a look at my CV.


I am a co-organizer of the Workshop on Tevelev Degrees and Related Topics. If you are interested in enumerative geometry, combinatorics, and tropical geometry, then you might be interested in this workshop taking place on Oct 26-27 at UIUC. I am also a co-organizer of UIUC Algebraic Geometry Preprint Seminar.