Miloslav Štěpán's webpage

About Me:

I am a mathematician and currently a postdoc at Johannes Kepler University in Linz. In February 2025 I finished my PhD under John Bourke at Masaryk University in the Czech republic.

You can see my CV here.

My interests are 2-categories, double categories, two-dimensional monad theory, lax structures.

Talks:

Publications:

  • "Factorization systems and double categories." Theory And Applications Of Categories 41.18 (2024): 551-592. (PDF)
  • "Colax adjunctions and lax-idempotent pseudomonads." Theory and Applications of Categories, 44.7 (2025): 227-271. (PDF)

PhD Thesis:

Lax structures in 2-category theory (PDF). The slides from my PhD defense are also available: (PDF).

Photo of me: (at Macocha Gorge)

Photo of me

Contact me at "miloslav.stepan@mail.muni.cz".