Recent alumni
This is an overview of former PhD students of the Mathematical Institute from the last 3-4 years.
2025
Max Blans
Thesis: The chain rule in Goodwillie calculus
Supervisors: Gijs Heuts and Ieke Moerdijk
Mar Curco Iranzo
Thesis: Exploring the arithmetic of generalised modular Jacobians and of power sums
Supervisors: Valentijn Karemaker and Gunther Cornelissen
Dusan Dragutinovic
Thesis: Families of curves in positive characteristic
Supervisors: Valentijn Karemaker and Carel Faber
Yann Guggisberg
Thesis: Recognition through and representability of symplectic capacities and squeezing of small sets
Supervisors: Dr Ziltner and Marius Crainic
Boaz Moerman
Thesis: Generalized Campana points and toric varieties
Supervisors: Marta Pieropan and Carel Faber
Jaco Ruit
Thesis: On multiple ∞-categories and formal category theory via ∞-equipments
Supervisors: Lennart Meier and Ieke Moerdijk
Reinier Schmiermann
Thesis: Singularities and virtual structures on the Hilbert scheme of points and its variants
Supervisors: Martijn Kool and Carel Faber
2024
Sander Johannes Borst
Thesis: Branch-and-bound trees, integrality gaps and online optimization
Supervisors: Daniel Dadush and Gunther Cornelissen
Dirk van Bree
Thesis: The cohomological invariants of moduli spaces of stable sheaves
Supervisors: Carel Faber and Martijn Kool
Nikolaj Takata Mücke
Thesis: Physics based ICT: The digital twin in pipelines (DP-Trans)
Supervisors: Kees Oosterlee and Sander Bohté
Alan Rapoport
Thesis: Bosonic and fermonic structures in lattice models
Supervisors: Wioletta Ruszel, Alessandra Cipriani, and Jason Frank
Hüseyin Sen
Thesis: A scientific biography of Taqi al-Din ibn Ma'ruf (1526–1585)
Supervisor: Jan Hogendijk
Luis Antonio Souto Arias
Thesis: Numerical methods in financial mathematics with applications to option pricing and anomaly detection
Supervisor: Kees Oosterlee and Prof. P. Cirillo
Thomas van der Zwaard
Thesis: Enhanced Modelling of Valuation Adjustments for Comprehensive Financial Risk Management
Supervisor: Lech Grzelak and Kees Oosterlee
2023
Kristoffer Andersson
Thesis: Neural networks for stochastic control and decision making in mathematical finance
Supervisors: Kees Oosterlee and Lech Grzelak
Andreas Tataris
Thesis: Gelfand-Levitan-Marchenko and model order reduction methods in inverse scattering
Supervisors: Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel, Tristan van Leeuwen and Ivan Pires de Vasconcelos
Yuqing Shi
Thesis: Unstable Periodic Homotopy Theory
Supervisors: Ieke Moerdijk and Gijs Heuts
Giacomo Lancia
Thesis: Interpretable predictions with Convolutional Neural Networks for complex data
Supervisors: Jason Frank en Cristian Spitoni
2022
Jack Davies
Thesis: Stable operations and topological modular forms
Supervisors: Ieke Moerdijk and Lennart Meier
Maarten Mol
Thesis: Hamiltonian actions of compact type from a Poisson point of view
Supervisor: Marius Crainic
Sergej Monavari
Thesis: Equivariant Enumerative Geometry and Donaldson-Thomas Theory
Supervisors: Carel Faber and Martijn Kool
Jetze Zoethout
Thesis: Computability Models and Realizability Toposes
Supervisors: Ieke Moerdijk en Jaap van Oosten
Sjors Stouten
Thesis: Mathematical modeling of radioresistance and radioleukemogenesis
Supervisors: Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel and Fieke Dekkers
Dominik Engl
Thesis: Variational analysis of multiscale problems with differential constraints
Supervisors: Carolin Kreisbeck and Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel
Xin Liu
Thesis: Numerical method and application of optimal control problem
Supervisor: Jason Frank