I am a mathematician specializing in low-dimensional and geometric topology, with a focus on surfaces and their mapping class groups. Recently, my interests have expanded to include transformation groups in topology more broadly, such as homeomorphism groups of manifolds. My research also intersects with geometric group theory and hyperbolic geomtery.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Queens College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). I am also a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Center. Before joining CUNY, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan under the mentorship of Dick Canary. I completed my PhD in mathematics at Boston College under the guidance of Martin Bridgeman and Ian Biringer (see my math genealogy).

I live in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn with my wife, Diana Hubbard (also a mathematician), our two daughters, and our two cats. Though I am not a native New Yorker, my grandparents emigrated from Greece to NYC, settling in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in the 1950s. My father was born there, while I grew up in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Poconos.