Current students and postdocs
- Lukas Bretsch, PhD student 2022-, University of Vienna.
- Andrew Pollock, PhD student 2022-, University of Vienna.
- Geoffrey Mboya, PhD student 2018-, University of Oxford. Geoffrey is studying families of polarized varieties in relative graded ring constructions.
- Aurelio Carlucci, PhD student 2015-, University of Oxford. Aurelio is studying cohomological Donaldson-Thomas theory.
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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