Cole Comfort

I am a postdoc working for Inria in the QUACS group in Saclay, France. I successfully defended my thesis at the University of Oxford in October 2023.

I am mainly interested in the abstract mathematical theory of quantum mechanics, mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. I am interested in using techniques from monoidal and higher category theory and symplectic geometry to study the abstract compositional structure of abstract and physical processes.

Here is a copy of my CV, updated November 2026.

I have lots of ideas, and am open to new ideas, so please feel free to contact me if any of my research interests you.

You can also find me at the ZX-calculus seminar, and the category theory Zulip channel.