Prof. Sakura Schafer-Nameki
PhD (Cantab)
Status
Academic Faculty
Professor of Mathematical Physics
Senior Research Fellow, Wadham College
Research groups
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Major / recent publications
Research Grants:
- ERC Advanced Grant (from 9/2023, as UKRI ERC Guarantee Grant)
- EPSRC Open Fellowship (from 1/2023)
- ERC Consolidator Grant Team Webpage (2016-2021)
- Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics (until 6/2024)
Recent Conference Organization:
- KITP Program Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory: High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter, and Quantum Gravity, March-May 2025
- Symmetries 2024 (Oxford), August 2024
- Generalized Global Symmetry, Quantum Field Theory and Geometry, 9/2022
- Higher Symmetry and Quantum Field Theory
- Symmetry Seminar Series
- QFT and Geometry Seminar Series
- QFT and Geometry Summer School 2020
- Geometry and Strings 2019
Recent Plenary Talks, Online Seminars:
- Strings 2024 Plenary Talk: Overview talk on Generalized Symmetries
- String-Math 2024 Plenary Talk
- Strings 2021 Plenary Talk
- String Pheno 2021 Plenary Talk
- Harvard CMSA Seminar 2021
- Western Hemisphere Colloquium on Geometry and Physics (WHCGP), 2020
- Italian Strings Web Seminar 2020
Teaching
Strings Theory II (MMathPhys until 2022)
RG (MMathPhys 2022)
Further details
Current Research Group members
Postdocs:
Dr Andrea Antinucci
Dr Thomas Bartsch
Dr Rajath Radhakrishnan
Dr Rui Wen
PhD Students:
Recent publications
Gapless phases in (2+1)d with non-invertible symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Gai, Y Huang, S Inamura, K Schäfer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A Warman, A SciPost Physics volume 21 issue 1 (23 Jul 2026) Higher Structures from Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory
Reutter, D Schafer-Nameki, S Schweigert, C Oberwolfach Reports volume 23 issue 1 737-794 (21 Jul 2026) Constant-Depth Clifford-Hierarchy Gates via Non-Abelian Surface Codes
Anonymous PRX Quantum (25 Jun 2026) Schur connections: Chord counting, line operators, and indices
Lewis, O Mezei, M Sacchi, M Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 20 issue 6 (08 Jun 2026) Twin Phases: Phase Transitions Without Hidden Symmetry Breaking
Warman, A Gai, Y Schafer-Nameki, S (29 May 2026) Twin Algebras: Condensable Algebras beyond Anyons
Gai, Y Schafer-Nameki, S Warman, A (29 May 2026) Non-Invertible Symmetries on Tensor-Product Hilbert Spaces and Quantum Cellular Automata
Wen, R Inamura, K Schafer-Nameki, S (14 May 2026) Lattice models for phases and transitions with non-invertible symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Schäfer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A SciPost Physics volume 20 issue 5 (13 May 2026) Research interests
Generalized and Categorical Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory.
Topological Phases of Matter and applications to condensed matter theory.
Applications of Generalized Symmetries to Quantum Information: Non-Abelian Codes, Faulty Tolerance
Connections between Geometric Structures and Quantum Field Theories and String Theory.