Lecturer profile

Jared Ongaro is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics. His academic journey is underpinned by a firm conviction that national development is intrinsically linked to robust foundational education, with mathematics serving as the critical cornerstone of this progress.

Education & Appointments

He completed both his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Mathematics at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Following a successful tenure as a pre-doctoral researcher at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, where he collaborated with Research Scientist Ramadas Ramakrishnan, he joined the School of Mathematics at the University of Nairobi as a Tutorial Fellow.

Through a scholarship by the International Science Programme, he joined the Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University in 2012, completing his PhD in 2015 under the supervision of Boris Shapiro and Rikard Bøgvad. His doctoral thesis explored Gromov-Witten invariants of the complex projective line, with a specific emphasis on plane Hurwitz numbers.

Research Interests

His primary research interests lie in enumerative algebraic geometry, and he is particularly drawn to the application of combinatorial and representation-theoretic methods within algebraic geometry. In 2016, he advanced his research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. There, under the mentorship of Balázs Szendrői, he expanded his expertise into Donaldson-Thomas theory and the combinatorics of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces.

He concurrently collaborated with Paul Johnson at the University of Sheffield to further investigate Gromov-Witten theory. Additionally, he participated as a postdoctoral researcher in the Enumerative Geometry Beyond Numbers programme at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, California.