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I am a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego, hosted by Tianyi Zheng. I am also a Fulbright fellow and a Schmidt Postdoctoral Award recipient.

My research interests broadly lie in the field of geometric group theory. I study locally compact groups and their actions on the associated spaces. I am particularly curious about groups acting on combinatorial objects such as trees and other buildings, and about the differences between the theory of connected (Lie) groups and totally disconnected ones. I also study applications of group actions to computer science, e.g., to the construction of high dimensional expanders. Beside math, I play classical piano music, I hold a certified tour guide certificate, and I have (a supporting husband and) three kids.

• Conjugacy and dynamics in almost automorphism groups of trees,
  Gil Goffer and Waltraud Lederle,
  International Journal of Algebra and Computation (2021).


• A few remarks on invariable generation in infinite groups,
  Gil Goffer and Gennady A. Noskov,
  Journal of Topology and Analysis (2020).


• Invariable generation does not pass to finite index subgroups,
  Gil Goffer and Nir Lazarovich,
  to appear in Journal of Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics.



Preprints

• Discrete, coinfinite, uniformly slim, irreducible subgroup of Aut(T1) × Aut(T2) ,
  Tal Cohen, Yair Glasner and Gil Goffer.
  


• Topological analogue for Bader-Duchesne-Lecureux,
  Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Gil Goffer and Waltraud Lederle.