About:

I am currently an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University, sponsored by Professor Ed Saff. In 2021-2022, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Technische Universität Graz, where my mentor was Professor Peter Grabner. I completed my Ph.D. in 2021 at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, under the supervision of Professor Dmitriy Bilyk. My main research interests are in Potential Theory, Discrepancy Theory, and related fields.

My collaborators and I have been awarded the American Institute of Mathematics' 2025 Alexanderson Award for our paper "Energy on Spheres and Discreteness of Minimizing Measures".

I will be returning to the job market, hoping to start a new position in the summer or early Fall of 2025, so if you or your department happen to have a postdoctoral position or tenure track position and don't know what to do with it, I'd be happy to help by filling it out.

Email: ryan.w.matzke@vanderbilt.edu