Firoozeh Dastur
DR. RER. NAT.
About Me
I am a mathematician with a PhD in Algebraic and Tropical Geometry from the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, completed in February 2026 in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM). My doctoral work combined algebraic and tropical geometry with computational methods, including computer algebra, Julia, and high-performance computing.
These days I work at Paul Wurth Geprolux, a workflow and project management company in the construction industry. Mathematics remains a part of my life alongside this — I continue to enjoy research as a personal interest, particularly around algebraic and tropical geometry, computer algebra, and the computational tools that support them, as well as their connections to broader fields such as data science, machine learning, neural networks, and optimisation.
I'm always glad to hear from people working on interesting problems, whether in mathematics, computation, or elsewhere — feel free to reach out if something might be worth discussing.
PhD Project
Automorphism groups of K3 surfaces and A1-multiplicities of tropical quartic curves. Completed February 2026.
Master's in Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory and Computer Algebra
Algorithmic generation of covers of tropical elliptic curves, with applications to mirror symmetry and Gromov–Witten invariants.
Master's in Analysis and Operations Research
University of Karachi. Thesis: Queuing Theory and Its Applications: Analysis of the Transaction Servers at the Two Banks.
Bachelor's in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics
St. Joseph's College for Women, Karachi, Pakistan.
JuliaCon 2024
DistributedWorkflows.jl talk (watch on YouTube), published as a companion paper in the Proceedings of the JuliaCon Conferences, 2026.
A Julia interface to a task-based workflow management system, simplifying the deployment of distributed applications on HPC clusters.