Svala Sverrisdóttir

About me

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Bernd Sturmfels. I received my B.S. in Mathematics with honors from the University of Iceland in Spring 2022. I passed my qualifying examinations in Combinatorics, Metric Algebraic Geometry, and Commutative Algebra in November 2023. I will graduate in Spring 2026 and during my final year of my Ph.D., I will be a visiting student at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.

From April to October 2026, I will be a guest researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, working with Sandra Di Rocco. In Fall 2026, I will begin a postdoctoral position as a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford.

My mathematical interests lie in computational algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, and combinatorics. In particular, I enjoy studying problems arising in quantum chemistry and physics using tools from nonlinear algebra.

You can reach me by my email at svala@math.berkeley.edu and in my office in 869 Evans Hall.

Here is my CV [current as of October 21st 2025].

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