Students and postdocs

Current students and postdocs

  • Lukas Bertsch, PhD student 2022- (joint with Ádám Gyenge), University of Vienna. Lukas is working on Quot schemes in the context of the McKay correspondence and related matters.
  • Andrew Pollock, PhD student 2022-, University of Vienna. Andrew is working on Cox rings of Calabi-Yau threefolds.
  • Tongyi Liu, Master student 2023-, University of Vienna. Tongyi is learning about derived categories of coherent sheaves.
  • Noah Arbesfeld, Postdoc 2023-, University of Vienna.
  • Livia Campo, Postdoc 2024-, University of Vienna.
  • Max Gschandtner, BSc student 2024-, University of Vienna. Max is learning about invariant rings under finite group actions.
  • Fabián Levicán, PhD student 2024- (joint with Ilse Fischer), University of Vienna.

Past students and postdocs

  • Geoffrey Mboya, PhD student, graduated 2023, University of Oxford. Geoffrey studied families of polarized varieties in relative graded ring constructions. 
  • Aurelio Carlucci, PhD student, graduated 2023, University of Oxford. Aurelio studied some explicit PT moduli spaces arising in Donaldson-Thomas theory.
  • Søren Gammelgaard, PhD student, graduated 2022, University of Oxford. Søren studied moduli spaces of sheaves on singular surfaces. 
  • Andrew Pollock, MSc student 2020-22, University of Oxford. Andrew studied a graded ring attached to the moduli space of marked genus 0 curves. 
  • Joshua Ryman, Masters dissertation student, 2021-22, University of Oxford. Joshua studied graded rings and varieties in weighted projective space. 
  • Samuel Mayer, Masters dissertation student, 2021-22, University of Oxford. Samuel studied the resolution structure of graded rings. 
  • Aitor Iribar, Masters dissertation student, 2021-22, University of Oxford. Aitor worked on fat point subschemes of projective spaces. 
  • Daniel Spielhofer-Edan, Masters dissertation student, 2021-2022, University of Oxford. Daniel studied weighted projective varieties in finite characteristic. 
  • Wicher Malten, EPSRC-supported postdoc 2020-2021, University of Oxford.
  • Clemens Koppensteiner, EPSRC-supported postdoc 2019-2021, University of Oxford.
  • Martin Mach, Masters dissertation student, 2018-2019, University of Oxford. Martin studied lines on del Pezzo surfaces. 
  • Augustinas Jacovskis, Masters dissertation student, 2018-2019, University of Oxford. Augustinas studied del Pezzo surfaces and their derived categories.
  • Jean Michel Menjanahary, Masters student (supervised jointly with Alberto Cazzaniga), 2018, AIMS-SA. Jean Michel wrote a thesis on deformations and resolutions of Type A surface singularities.
  • Joseph Gage, Masters dissertation student, 2017-2018, University of Oxford. Joe wrote a thesis on deformations and resolutions of simple surface singularities.
  • Liam Stigant, Masters dissertation student, 2017-2018, University of Oxford. Liam wrote a thesis on the classification of projective algebraic surfaces. 
  • Wonsuk Yang, Bachelor dissertation student, 2017-2018, University of Oxford. Wonsuk wrote a thesis on the classification of projective algebraic surfaces. 
  • Enoch Liu, Undergraduate summer project student 2017. Enoch was studying singularities of algebraic curves and knot theory. 
  • Andriamahenina Ramanantoanina, Masters student (supervised jointly with Alberto Cazzaniga), 2017, AIMS-SA. Mahenina wrote a dissertation about lines on a cubic surface. 
  • Rowan Schrecker, Masters dissertation student, 2016-2017, University of Oxford. Rowan wrote a dissertation about finite subgroups of SU(2) and SU(3) and their McKay quiver. 
  • András Sándor, Masters student 2016, University of Oxford. Andras wrote a dissertation on toric geometry.
  • Ádám Gyenge, PhD student, graduated 2016, MTA Renyi Institute, Budapest (first supervisor András Némethi). Adam worked on Euler characteristics of Hilbert schemes of points on singular surfaces. He was also my EPSRC-supported postdoc 2019-2021, University of Oxford.
  • Stephen Kadedesya, Masters student (supervised jointly with Alberto Cazzaniga), 2016, AIMS-SA. Stephen wrote a dissertation on finite subgroups of SU(2). 
  • Heritiana Ravelomanantsoa Andriantsilavo, Masters student (supervised jointly with Alberto Cazzaniga), 2016, AIMS-SA. Heritiana wrote a dissertation on surfaces in projective space. 
  • Joe Swinson, Masters student, 2015-2016, University of Oxford. Joe wrote a dissertation about uniformization and the moduli space of curves. 
  • Tim Hosgood, undergraduate summer project student, summer 2015. Tim wrote a project on algebraic curves in weighted projective planes. 
  • Zheng Hua, EPSRC-supported postdoc 2012, University of Oxford. 
  • Sergei Mozgovoy, EPSRC-supported postdoc 2011, University of Oxford.
  • Alberto Cazzaniga, PhD student, graduated 2015, University of Oxford. Alberto wrote a thesis on sheaf counting on commutative and non-commutative threefolds. 
  • Alan Thompson, PhD student, graduated 2011, University of Oxford. He worked on K3 fibrations and their degenerations. Thesis title: Models for threefolds fibred in K3 surfaces of degree two.
  • Ben Davison, PhD student, graduated 2011, University of Oxford. He worked on brane tilings, orientation data in the theory of motivic DT invariants, as well as superpotential desctiptions of fundamental group algebras. Thesis title: Orientation data in motivic Donaldson-Thomas theory.
  • Imran Qureshi, PhD student, graduated 2011, University of Oxford. He worked on weighted homogeneous varieties. Thesis title: Families of polarized varieties in weighted flag varieties. 
  • Fjodor Gainullin, Undergraduate summer project student 2010, supported by a Nuffield Undergraduate Bursary. We studied 3-dimensional partitions.
  • Marius de Leeuw, Master student 2004-2005, Utrecht University. Thesis: Comparison between the SL(2,C) Hitchin system and an intermediate Jacobian fibration. Completed a PhD in physics in Utrecht.
  • Martijn Kool, Master student 2004-2005, Utrecht University. Thesis: The McKay correspondence, derived categories and braid relations.
  • Anita Buckley, PhD student, graduated 2003, University of Warwick (joint student with Miles Reid). Thesis: Orbifold Riemann-Roch for 3-folds and applications to Calabi-Yaus.