Welcome to Emanuel József Godfried’s homepage

Hi, I’m Emanuel József, a 2nd year PhD student at School of Mathematics and Statistics of The University of Melbourne under the supervision of Leo Tzou (main) and Jesse Gell-Redman. My research is in applied probability, where I’m finding mean first capture times of various types of random walks using microlocal and PDE techniques. My CV in PDF-format can be found here.

I’m also a general committee member for the graduate student society StAMPS.

Before this I completed my Master of Science in pure mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, graduating cum laude, with my master’s thesis, The parametrix of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, receiving a grade of 8.0 on a scale from 1 to 10.

Articles

  1. Geodesic Lévy flights on Zoll surfaces, Yann Chaubet, Emanuel József Godfried and Leo Tzou, arXiv:2606.28744, [math.DG], (2026).
  2. Mean first escape times of Brownian motion on asymptotically hyperbolic and gas giant surfaces, Jesse Gell-Redman, Emanuel József Godfried, Justin Tzou and Leo Tzou, arXiv:2603.17313, [math.AP], (2026).

Projects I’m currently working on

  • Mean first escape time on general asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds (coming soon)

Talks I’ve given

Below is a list of the talks I’ve given. The slides are available under the Talks tab

  1. Introduction to narrow capture problems on Riemannian manifolds (at SOUPAMES on 9th of April 2026)
  2. Accessibility in LaTeX (at ART seminar on 10th March 2026)
  3. PhD confirmation (at The University of Melbourne on 16th February 2026)
  4. Mean first escape time on asymptotically hyperbolic and gas giant surfaces (at The 2nd Asia-Pacific International Conference on Dispersive Equations on 2 February 2026)
  5. Mean first escape time on Asymptotically hyperbolic surfaces (at The 69th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society on 9 December 2025)

Contact details

Emanuel József Godfried
School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
egodfried@student.unimelb.edu.au