Michail Louvaris

Michail Louvaris joins the FAS as Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics. He received his PhD in 2023 from the University of Athens under the supervision of Dimitris Cheliotis and held a postdoctoral position at Gustave Eiffel University from 2023–2025 through the MathInGreaterParis Fellowship Programme, co-funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. He works on random matrices, specifically extreme eigenvalues and universality results for heavy-tailed models, sparse matrices, and ensembles with general variance profiles. His research also includes the spectral properties of random graphs and their applications to geometric group theory, with a focus on subgroups of free groups and their growth rates. He plans to further explore topics at the intersection of probability theory, graph theory, combinatorics, and their interplay with group theory.