Svala Sverrisdóttir

About me

I am a guest researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology from April to September 2026, working with Sandra Di Rocco. I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Bernd Sturmfels. In my dissertation Nonlinear Algebra in Quantum Chemistry I develop algebraic geoemetry for quantum chemistry, focusing on the coupled cluster method. I received my B.S. in Mathematics with honors from the University of Iceland in Spring 2022. During my final year of my Ph.D., I was a visiting student at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.

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.

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

Me

Research

Preprints

Publications

Activities

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

Teaching