Matt Watson

I am currently an instructional associate at the University of Colorado Boulder.

I received my PhD in mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder in May 2026. I was advised by Sebastian Casalaina-Martin. My current research is related to Hodge theoretic constructions of moduli spaces. More precisely, I have been studying the singularities appearing on arithmetic ball quotients defined over the Eisenstein integers with the hope of showing when these spaces are of general type. I have recently become more interested in modular forms.

When I’m not doing math, I enjoy hiking, reading fantasy books, playing board games, and going to the movies.