Prof. Dr. Gaëtan Borot

Institut für Mathematik | Mathematische Physik: Mathematische Aspekte der Quantenfeld- und Stringtheorie

Prof. Dr. Gaëtan Borot

Institute for Mathematics
& Institute for Physics

Chair in Mathematical Physics

+ Research group webpage
+ Recent publications

Interests: enumerative geometry, quantum algebra/topology/geometry, topological recursion, integrability, moduli spaces, algebraic structures, random matrix theory, combinatorics, science outreach.

Email: vorname.name at hu strich berlin punkt de

Location: Johann-von-Neumann-Haus, Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin
but postal address is different:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Mathematik
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin

Office: Office 1.333 (Haus 1, 3rd floor, right corridor)

Phone: (030) 2093 45479

Secretary: Kristina Schulze, schulze at hu strich berlin punkt de

IMP-Bachelor: Prüfungsauschuss- und KLS-Vorsitz, Studienberatung.

Research initiatives :

- RTG: Rethinking QFT (Berlin, 2019-2029)
- RTG: From geometry to numbers (Berlin/Hannover, 2024-2029)
- Kolleg Mathematik Physik Berlin (2020-2029)

Teaching and seminars

Bachelor and master projects

WiSe 25/26
♦ Lineare Algebra I*
♦ Mathematical physics seminar

SoSe 26

♦ Funktionentheorie

♦ Master reading group: Geometric structures in mathematical physics

♦ Mathematical physics seminar

WiSe 26/27

♦ Random matrix theory

♦ Mathematical physics seminar

Former teaching

Archive seminars (2020–2025)

News

♦ Jan Pulmann will start his Marie Curie fellowship hosted by our group in Fall 2026

♦ Our group is active for the LDNW26 on June 6th in Adlershof:

- Demian Goos (re)organises the exhibition Mathemenschen, showing visual art made by young mathematics from all over the world.

- Demian also give an interactive talk Die Format des Verrats - ein mathematischer True-Crime Fall and there is occasion to play a social deduction game

- I will give a talk The sound of naive addition

- Check out as well our postcard series Gedankenidentitäten.

♦ Since Fall 2025 we gave a new life to the mathematisches Institutskolloquium, the programme will be updated here.

♦ Demian Goos, mathematician and science journalist, started in our group in October 2025 and will be active in science communication. He has received the 2025 Medienpreis of the Deutschen-Mathematiker-Vereinigung for his former outreach projects.

♦ I explained the role of physics in enumerative geometry in an outreach video in the "Non-standard models" channel of the physics RTG (produced by Davide Scazzuso, Allison Pinto, Giulia Peveri, and Matthias Driesse)