David Pfefferlé's research revolves around the application of differential geometry to plasma physics problems with focus on magneto-hydrodynamics, field-line topology, guiding-centre theory and structure-preserving numerical methods. David Pfefferlé is a Lecturer in mathematics at the University of Western Australia since 2018. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at PPPL. He received his PhD in plasma physics from EPFL.