Kenny DE COMMER

Kenny De Commer received his PhD in Mathematics at KU Leuven, as an FWO aspirant, with the thesis `Galois coactions for algebraic and locally compact quantum groups' (advisor A. Van Daele). He then had a postdoctoral position 2009-2011 under the ERC-advanded grant supported guidance of R. Longo at the Università di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. From 2011-2013, he was maître de conférences at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France. From 2014-2019, he was appointed tenure track research professor (ZAP-BOF) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and as of February 2019 has been associate professor at VUB.

K. De Commer staat in voor het bachelorvak `Inleiding tot de Functionaalanalyse' en het mastervak `Functionaalanalyse' (ingericht samen met A. Debrouwere). Hij verzorgt ook het mastervak `Banach en C*-algebra's', het mastervak  `Seminarie in de wiskunde en data science' (ingericht samen met T. Lu), en het bachelorvak `Seminarie Actuele wetenschappen en Samenleving'. 

My broad interests are in representation theory in the analytic setting, and more particularly its connections to operator algebras, quantum groups and category theory.