Loïs Faisant

Browning group, ISTA.

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Section of Algebra

Department of Mathematics

KU Leuven

Celestijnenlaan 200B bus 2400

B-3001 Leuven

Belgium

Since October 2025, I am a postdoc researcher at KU Leuven, Algebra Section, mentored by Raf Cluckers.

Before that, I was an IST-BRIDGE & Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in Tim Browning’s group, ISTA.

I completed my PhD in Summer 2023, under the supervision of Emmanuel Peyre at Institut Fourier, Université Grenoble Alpes.

My profile picture was taken by Lena Ji 🧁.

mathematical interests

Motivic aspects of a certain number of topics in

  • algebraic geometry: Cox rings and applications (distribution of rational points on varieties, moduli spaces of curves, …);
  • analytic number theory: circle method, harmonic analysis, zeta functions and their applications to geometry;
  • logic: model theory for motivic integration.

upcoming events


KU Leuven

ISTA

France


contact

my-first-name dot my-last-name at kuleuven.be


selected publications

  1. article
    Geometric Batyrev-Manin-Peyre for equivariant compactifications of additive groups
    Faisant, Loïs
    Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie/Contributions to Algebra and Geometry 2023
  2. article
    Motivic distribution of rational curves and twisted products of toric varieties
    Faisant, Loïs
    Algebra & Number Theory 2025
  3. PhD thesis
    Stabilisation phenomena in moduli spaces of curves
    Faisant, Loïs
    Université Grenoble Alpes 2023
  4. preprint
    Motivic counting of rational curves with tangency conditions via universal torsors
    arXiv:2502.11704 2025