Since October 2026, I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN) in the research group on operator algebras. My mentor is Adam Skalski. Before that I completed my PhD at Saarland University under the supervision of Moritz Weber.

My research interests are quantum graphs, compact quantum groups and their applications in quantum information theory. Besides that, I am also interested in graph C*-algebras and their generalizations to hypergraphs or quantum graphs.

You can contact me via bschafer[at]impan.pl. See also [Orcid], [Arxiv], [LinkedIn].