Michael Bleher

Mathematikon 02/232

Im Neuenheimer Feld 205

69120 Heidelberg

Hi, I’m a Postdoc based at the Institute for Mathematics, Heidelberg University, and associated with STRUCTURES and the ERC Grant Perpetuating Stemness.

I obtained a PhD in Mathematical Physics on connections between topologically twisted supersymmetric field theories, Floer theories, and knot homologies under the supervision of Johannes Walcher.

Currently I’m investigating applications of geometry and topology in biology, with the ultimate goal of extracting dynamical information from single cell RNA velocity data during cell differentiation. This research is part of the Applied Analysis and Modelling in Biosciences group of Anna Marciniak-Czochra and developed in collaboration with Anna Wienhard at the MPI MiS.

In general, I’m fascinated by the unreasonable effectiveness of abstract mathematics in the natural sciences. Or vice versa. I’m always happy to chat and learn about new examples.

news

Jun 30, 2026	The proceedings of Geometry, Topology, and Machine Learning (GTML) 2025 are now published as Volume 325 of PMLR. Warm thanks to everyone who spoke, wrote, and took part!
Jun 24, 2026	I just set up chromabench, the tiniest test for chromatic topological data analysis.
Jun 15, 2026	markovmodus v0.3.0 is out – adds support for cell proliferation.
May 22, 2026	I’ll give a talk on Single cells, population dynamics, and Euler characteristic profiles at Gdańsk University of Technology on May 28.
May 14, 2026	Gave a talk on Single cells, population dynamics, and Euler characteristic profiles at the MATRIX workshop on Applications of Computational Geometry and Topology to Data Analysis of Complex Biological Data in Creswick, Australia. Slides.