Diego Artacho

Diego Artacho

Postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven

About

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Geometry group in KU Leuven. My research explores the rich interplay between spin geometry, homogeneous spaces, and special spinors. Beyond research, I am committed to teaching and student mentoring. Aside from mathematics, I love reading, squash, and chess (although I am a terrible player).

Experience

Postdoctoral researcher, KU Leuven, Belgium

Nov 2025 – present

Education

PhD in Mathematics, Imperial College London

Oct 2021 – Oct 2025

Research in Differential Geometry under Marie-Amélie Lawn and Steven Sivek.
Thesis examined by Simon Donaldson and Simon Salamon.

Master's in Pure Mathematics (Part III), University of Cambridge

Sept 2020 – June 2021

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Sept 2015 – June 2020

Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Sept 2015 – June 2020

Publications

Talks

  • New spinorial criteria for the stability of Einstein metricsMarch 2026
    Seminario de Geometría de la Universidad de Granada. Granada, Spain.
    Link to event site
  • Stability of Einstein metrics that carry special twisted spinorsMarch 2026
    Seminario de Geometría de la Universidad de Córdoba. Córdoba, Spain.
    Link to event site
  • Generalised Spin StructuresSeptember 2025
    Differential Geometry and its Applications. Brno, Czech Republic.
    Link to event site
  • Generalised Spin StructuresJuly 2025
    Workshop on Even and Odd Dimensional Geometric Structures. Bari, Italy.
    Link to event site
  • A Generalisation of Spin StructuresMay 2025
    Seminari de Topologia de la UB. Barcelona, Spain.
    Link to event site
  • Quaternion-Kähler ManifoldsFebruary 2025
    Quaternion-Kähler manifolds and the LeBrun-Salamon Conjecture (MAM III). Marburg, Germany.
    Link to event site
  • Spin Geometry and GeneralisationsNovember 2024
    Seminari de Geometria de la UAB. Barcelona, Spain.
    Link to seminar site
  • Characteristic Classes on Homogeneous SpacesJune 2024
    Spin Geometry Working Group. London, UK.
  • What is Spin Geometry?January 2024
    KCL/UCL Junior Geometry Seminar. London, UK.
    Link to seminar site
  • Twisted Spin StructuresNovember 2023
    Forschungsseminar Differentialgeometrie und Analysis. Marburg, Germany.
    Link to seminar site
  • Invariant Twisted Spinors on Homogeneous SpacesOctober 2023
    The Crazy World of Arthur L. Besse. Stuttgart, Germany.
    Link to event site
  • Generalised Spinʳ Structures on Homogeneous SpacesMay 2023
    BIRS Workshop: Spinorial and Octonionic Aspects of G₂ and Spin(7) Geometry. Banff, Canada.
  • Tauberian Operators on Banach SpacesMarch 2020
    X Workshop on Functional Analysis. Tenerife, Spain.
    Link to event site