Erik Paemurru

Biography

Research Interest

• Birational geometry
• Singularity theory
• Computer algebra

Education Experience

• 2016 - 2020 | Loughborough University | Algebraic Geometry | Ph.D | thesis title “Birational models of terminal sextic double solids” | (Supervisor: Prof. Hamid Abban)
• 2010 - 2014 | University of Edinburgh | Mathematics & Physics | B.Sc.

Work Experience

• 2026 - -- | BIMSA | Chern Instructor
• 2025 - 2026 | Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Postdoctoral Researcher | Mentor: Prof. Ludmil Katzarkov
• 2023 - 2025 | Saarland University | Postdoc | Mentor: Prof. Simon Brandhorst
• 2021 - 2023 | University of Miami and theInstitute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Research Assistant Professor in Miami, Postdoctoral Researcher in Sofia | Mentor: Prof. Ludmil Katzarkov
• 2020 - 2021 | University of Basel | Postdoctoral Researcher | Mentor: Prof. Jérémy Blanc
• 2020 - 2020 | Imperial College London | London Mathematical Society Early Career Fellow | Mentor: Prof. Paolo Cascini

Publications

• [1] E Paemurru, N Viswanathan, Log canonical thresholds of high multiplicity reduced plane curves, Glasgow Mathematical Journal, 1-13 (2026)
• [2] L Campo, TD Guerreiro, E Paemurru, Blowups of smooth hypersurfaces, their birational geometry and divisorial stability, New York J. Math, 31, 1667-1689 (2025)
• [3] E Paemurru, Extended Abstract of Counting Divisorial Contractions with Centre a cAn-Singularity, ZAG Handbook of Algebraic Geometry, 581-585 (2025)
• [4] S Muller, E Paemurru, Very ample sheaves on weighted projective spaces and weighted blowups, arXiv, 2510.03036 (2025)
• [5] I Krylov, T Okada, E Paemurru, Local inequalities for $cA_k$ singularities, arXiv, 2508.21676 (2025)
• [6] E Paemurru, Counting divisorial contractions with centre a cAn-singularity, Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci, 60(4), 699-721 (2024)
• [7] E Paemurru, Birational geometry of sextic double solids with a compound singularity, Nagoya Mathematical Journal, 256, 970-1021 (2024)
• [8] I Krylov, T Okada, E Paemurru, J Park, 2 n2-inequality for cA1 points and applications to birational rigidity, Compositio Mathematica, 160(7), 1551-1595 (2024)
• [9] E Paemurru, Reading the log canonical threshold of a plane curve singularity from its Newton polyhedron, ANNALI DELL'UNIVERSITA'DI FERRARA, 70(3), 1069-1082 (2024)
• [10] E Paemurru, Del Pezzo surfaces in weighted projective spaces, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 61(2), 545-572 (2018)