I am a Math Fellow (formerly Assistant Adjunct Professor) at the UCLA Department of Mathematics, working with Joaquín Moraga. I received my Ph.D. from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile under the supervision of Giancarlo Urzúa. Previously, I was a master’s student at PUC and an undergraduate student at Universidad de los Andes under the supervision of Cristian Martínez.

Office: MS 6164.
Email: jpzuniga at math dot ucla dot edu
CV: Curriculum vitae (PDF)

My research interests lie in algebraic geometry. I am particularly interested in:

• Deformations and degenerations of algebraic varieties;
• Birational-geometric methods in the study of compactifications of moduli spaces;
• Cox rings of non-Mori dream spaces.