Josef Hofbauer proudly presents his

former graduate students

Johannes Fürlinger: Mitbetreuung seiner Dissertation q-Catalanzahlen bei Prof. Johann Cigler, die zu einer gemeinsamen Arbeit führte. Er arbeitete 18 Jahre bei der Wiener Städtischen Versicherung und ist jetzt selbständig.

Gabriela Kirlinger: My first own student, she wrote a masters thesis on Permanenz in Volterra-Lotka-Gleichungen: gekoppelte Räuber-Beute Systeme (1985), and a Ph.D. thesis on Permanence of some four-species Lotka-Volterra systems (1987). She is now Assistant Professor at the Institut für Angewandte und Numerische Mathematik der TU Wien.

Erwin Amann: Nach seiner Diplomarbeit Permanenz in der Replikatorgleichung (1984) bei K. Sigmund und einer gemeinsamen Arbeit schrieb er eine Dissertation (1989) Permanence of catalytic networks. Nach vielen Jahren als Assistent und Dozent am Institut für Mikroöonomie der Universität Dortmund ist er jetzt C4-Professor in Essen. Seine Habilitationsschrift ist als Buch erschienen.

Andrea Gaunersdorfer: After her master's thesis "Dynamik asymmetrischer Spiele" (Nov 89) under Karl Sigmund, which lead to a joint paper , she wrote her Ph.D. thesis Dynamics of asymmmetric games and heteroclinic cycles (Dez 91) under Sigmund's and my direction. After some time at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien) she worked with Prof. Engelbert Dockner at the Department of Finance at the BWZ (Center for Business Studies) of the University Vienna. Seit Jänner 2001 ist sie Dozentin für Quantitative Betriebswirtschaftslehre . She now works in the Department of Statistics and Decision Support Systems

Klaus Marschner: (Diplom, 1991) Attraktoren und Wellen in Reaktions-Diffusionsgleichungen. He works with IBM Österreich.

Elisabeth Kollwentz: (Dipl.-Lehramt, Juni 1993) Populationsökologie: von ihren Anfängen im goldenen Zeitalter der theoretischen Ökologie bis zur Gegenwart.

Werner Brannath wrote a fine master's thesis (Diplom Okt. 93) Unstable Heteroclinic Cycles in Heteroclinic Networks on the Simplex which was published in Nonlinearity 7 (5), 1367-1384 (1994). He then did his Ph.D. thesis On fundamental theorems in mathematical finance with Walter Schachermayer . Since 1998 he works at the Institut für Medizinische Statistik der Uni Wien (now Medical University Vienna), since 2005 as Dozent.

Manfred Plank wrote both his masters' thesis Hamiltonische Systeme und Lotka-Volterra Gleichungen (Jan 1994) and his Ph.D. thesis Conservative Properties of Dynamical Systems arising in Evolutionary Game Theory (June 1997) under my direction. After a two year post-doc economics education at the IHS , and despite his publications, he unfortunately did not get a reasonable job at a university. So he joined the Austrian National Bank . Since 2000 he works at the UBS (Union Banque de Suisse) in Zürich where he was Executive Director of the Credit and Country Risk Measurement Group. Recently he moved to Credit Suisse.

Ulrich Berger: did both his masters thesis Replikator- und Best Response Dynamik für 3x3 Bimatrixspiele (Diplom 1995), and his Ph.D. thesis Best response dynamics and Nash dynamics for games (Dissertation 1998) under my direction. He works now at the Department of analytical economics (lead by Prof. Abele) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He recently got a second Ph.D. in Economics. His hobby is to debunk pseudo science.

Christoph Ableitinger wrote a master's thesis on Evolutionary Game Dynamics (April 2004). He is now assistant at the Faculty of Mathematics in Vienna.

Martin Hahn wrote a master's thesis on Survival of dominated strategies under the best response dynamics (May 2004) and a Ph.D. thesis on Shapley polygons at UCL (Oct 2009).

Thomas A. Gobold (Lehramt Mathematik und Chemie) schrieb eine Diplomarbeit Komplexe Zahlen und der Integralsatz von Cauchy (Dez 2006).

Maximilian Stejskal wrote a master's thesis on Games between Two Populations with Selfinteraction under Best Response Dynamics (Nov 2008).

Sebastian Rieder wrote master's thesis on Evolutionary Games and Imitation dynamics (Nov 2009).

Mahdi Rahimi writes a master's thesis on Innovative dynamics in bimatrix games

Sebastian Novak writes a master's thesis on Spatially structured games


I have been external examiner for the following Ph.D.s

Maria de Lourdes Correia Fernandes (1989, Lissabon)

David Leslie: Reinforcement learning in games (Bristol 2003).

Arndt von Schemde: A geometric-combinatorial approach to index and stability in bimatrix games (London School of Economics, 2004) (His thesis is available as a book !)

Ping Yan: Limit Cycles for Generalized Lienard-type and Lotka--Volterra Systems (Turku, 2005)

Yannick Viossat: Correlated equilibria, evolutionary games and population dynamics (Ecole Polytechnique Paris, 2005)

Anne V. Balthasar: Geometry and equilibria in bimatrix games (London School of Economics, 2009)

Marius I. Ochea: Nonlinear evolutionary game dynamics (Amsterdam 2010)