DFF postdoctoral grant for Kang Li

The appropriations are intended to give young researchers the best conditions to deliver significant research at a high international level. The grant supports Kang Li’s postdoc recruitment at the University of Münster, Germany.

Kang Li was born in Changsha, China, but raised in Denmark. He has a bachelor's and a master's degree in mathematics from University of Copenhagen - and in a few weeks he will defend his PhD thesis "Property A and coarse embedding of locally compact groups". Uffe Haagerup and Ryszard Nest have been his supervisors.

Kang Li will stay some months at MATH as a research assistant, until he - thanks to the grant from the DFF - starts in an postdoc position at the University of Münster from March 1, 2016. He has previously visited University of Münster as a research student under the guidance of Professor Siegfried Echterhof.

His postdoctoral research project is entitled "The Baum-Connes Conjecture for Algebraic Groups".