From f5ffcc09b782d286e658a5599443bbe711df6281 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "quentin@aristote.fr" <quentin@aristote.fr>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:08:42 +0200
Subject: i am now a phd student

---
 basics/default.nix | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

(limited to 'basics/default.nix')

diff --git a/basics/default.nix b/basics/default.nix
index a646369..8769314 100644
--- a/basics/default.nix
+++ b/basics/default.nix
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 let
   institution = {
-    position = "Theoretical Computer Science student";
-    name = "École Normale Supérieure";
-    url = "https://www.ens.psl.eu/en";
+    position = "PhD student in Theoretical Computer Science";
+    name = "IRIF";
+    url = "https://www.irif.fr/en/index";
   };
 in {
   inherit institution;
@@ -29,14 +29,15 @@ in {
           icon = "github";
           url = "https://github.com/qaristote";
         };
-        ENS = {
-          icon = "gitlab";
-          url = "https://git.eleves.ens.fr/qaristote";
-        };
         IRIF = {
           icon = "gitlab";
           url = "https://gitlab.math.univ-paris-diderot.fr/aristote";
         };
+
+        ENS = {
+          icon = "gitlab";
+          url = "https://git.eleves.ens.fr/qaristote";
+        };
       };
     };
     LinkedIn = {
@@ -58,12 +59,22 @@ in {
   };
   url = "https://quentin.aristote.fr/";
   description = ''
-    I am a student at the ${
-      href "https://www.di.ens.fr/" "Computer Science Department (DI)"
-    } of the ${with institution; href url name}, an institution part of ${
-      href "https://psl.eu/en" "PSL University"
+    I am a PhD student in Theoretical Computer Science at ${
+      href "https://www.irif.fr/en/index" "IRIF"
+    }, under the supervision of ${
+      href "https://www.irif.fr/~petrisan/" "Daniela Petrişan"
+    }. My PhD involves studying the compositionality of ${
+      href "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(category_theory)" "monads"
+    } through ${
+      href "https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/weak+distributive+law"
+      "weak distributive laws"
+    }, and its applications to ${
+      href "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-effect_(computer_science)"
+      "effectful programming"
+    }, in particular within ${
+      href "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata_theory" "automata theory"
     }.
 
-    I am mainly interested in applying abstract mathematical theories (e.g. category theory) to computer science in order to get new results for free. I am also interested in practical computer science and enjoy programming using functional languages as well as tinkering with systems.
+    More generally, I am mainly interested in applying abstract mathematical theories (e.g. category theory) to computer science in order to get new results for free. I am also interested in practical computer science and enjoy programming using functional languages as well as tinkering with systems.
   '';
 }
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