Pénélope
Azuelos

I'm a PhD student at the University of Bristol, supervised by Mark Hagen (Bristol) and Indira Chatterji (Nice).

Previously I did my master's at ENS Lyon, where I wrote my masters thesis under the supervision of Damien Gaboriau, and an integrated masters at the University of Bristol, where I wrote my final year dissertation under the supervision of Mark Hagen.

You can find my CV here.

My pronouns are she/her.

Research

My research is in geometric group theory. At the moment, I am particularly interested in groups which act on median spaces, especially real trees. Other aspects which interest me include hyperbolicity and its generalisations, CAT(0) cube complexes and Schreier graphs.

Papers

"Uncountably many homogeneous real trees with the same valence", arXiv:2511.03722, pdf.
"A guide to constructing free transitive actions on median spaces", arXiv:2507.22230, pdf.
"Perfect kernel and dynamics: from Bass-Serre theory to hyperbolic groups", with Damien Gaboriau, Math. Ann., 2025. Journal version, pdf.
"On subgroups with narrow Schreier graphs" , Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 2024. Journal version, pdf.

Contact

penelope.azuelos (at) bristol.ac.uk

School of Mathematics
Woodland Rd
Bristol BS8 1UG