Current students and postdocs

Past students and postdocs

  • Soren Gammelgaard, PhD student 2018-22, University of Oxford. Soren 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.
  • Andras Sandor, Masters student 2016, University of Oxford. Andras wrote a dissertation on toric geometry.
  • Adam Gyenge, PhD student 2013-2016, MTA Renyi Institute, Budapest (first supervisor Andras Nemethi). 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. He is now Research Fellow at the Renyi Institute, Budapest.
  • 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. He is currently Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin.
  • Alberto Cazzaniga, PhD student 2011-2015, University of Oxford. Alberto wrote a thesis on sheaf counting on commutative and non-commutative threefolds.
  • Alan Thompson, PhD student 2007-2011, University of Oxford. He worked on K3 fibrations and their degenerations. Thesis title: Models for threefolds fibred in K3 surfaces of degree two. He is currently Lecturer in Algebraic Geometry at Loughborough University.
  • Ben Davison, PhD student 2007-2011, 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. He is currently Reader at the University of Edinburgh.
  • Imran Qureshi, PhD student 2007-2011, University of Oxford. He worked on weighted homogeneous varieties. Thesis title: Families of polarized varieties in weighted flag varieties. Currently Assistant Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia.
  • Fjodor Gainullin, Undergraduate summer project student 2010, supported by a Nuffield Undergraduate Bursary. We studied 3-dimensional partitions. After having completed a PhD at Imperial, Fjodor now works in the financial sector.
  • 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. He is currently Research Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin.
  • Martijn Kool, Master student 2004-2005, Utrecht University. Thesis: The McKay correspondence, derived categories and braid relations. After an Oxford DPhil, he is now an Associate Professor in Utrecht.
  • Anita Buckley, PhD student 1999-2003, University of Warwick (joint student with Miles Reid). Thesis: Orbifold Riemann-Roch for 3-folds and applications to Calabi-Yaus. She is currently Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana.


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