I’m a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University. I completed my Ph.D. at Cornell in May 2026 under the supervision of Inna Zakharevich.
I’m a part of the Active Learning Initiative at Cornell, where I help improve Cornell’s engineering mathematics courses.
My mathematical research centers on algebraic topology, with a particular emphasis on algebraic K-theory, equivariant stable homotopy theory, and connections to modular representation theory.
I pronounce my last name as “VOH-guh-lee” in English, but it’s really Swiss German in origin.
Research
Publications
\(C_p\)-Mackey functors in Macaulay2
with Thomas Brazelton, David Chan, Benjamin Mudrak, Ben Spitz, Chenglu Wang, Michael Zeng, and Sasha Zotine. Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry, to appear.
[arXiv:2509.05456]
The Galois-equivariant K-theory of finite fields
with David Chan. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (2025).
[arXiv:2406.19481] [doi:10.1112/plms.70012]
Preprints
Derived induction theory for the K-theory of modular group algebras
[arXiv:2510.25763]
Bredon homological stability for configuration spaces of \(G\)-manifolds
with Eva Belmont and J.D. Quigley.
[arXiv:2311.02459]
Uniformly vertex-transitive graphs
with Simon Schmidt and Moritz Weber.
[arXiv:1912.00060]
Software
BredonHomology.m2: Bredon equivariant homology of simplicial complexes with \(C_p\)-action in Macaulay2 (work in progress!)
CpMackeyFunctors.m2: homological algebra with \(C_p\)-Mackey functors in Macaulay2. See the accompanying article above!
Expository & Other Writing
English Translation of tom Dieck’s Faserbündel mit Gruppenoperation
Translation to fulfil the language requirement of the Cornell mathematics graduate program.
A puzzle: what comes next in the sequence?
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 60, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113, 127, 131, 137, 139, 149, 151, 157, 163, 167, ???
Das Sphärenspektrum hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.