Current and former students/postdocs

Postdocs:

• Zan Grad (2025-...) [Website]
• Miquel Cueca Ten (2024-...)
• Luka Zwaan (2024-...)
• Charlotte Kirchhoff-Lukat (2018-2025, on leave at MIT in Paul Seidel's group in 2021-23) [Website]
• Luca Accornero (2021-2023)
  First subsequent employment: Postdoc at MPIM Bonn. Then postdoc at USP (Brazil)
• Gabriel Sevestre (2021-2023)
• Aldo Witte (2021-2023)
  First subsequent employment: Postdoc at Universiteit Antwerpen. Then postdoc at Univ. Hamburg.
• Ralph Klaasse (2020-21)
  First subsequent employment: ABN AMRO bank.
• Francesco Cattafi (2020) [Website]
  First subsequent employment: Visiting scholar at Erwin Schrödinger Institut and Wolfang Pauli Institut (Vienna). Then postdoc at Universität Würzburg.
• Joel Villatoro (2018-21) [Website]
  First subsequent employment: postdoc at MPIM Bonn. Then NSF Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA.
• Alfonso Tortorella (2018-21) [Website]
  First subsequent employment: Postdoc at Universidade do Porto. Then postdoc at Universidade do Coimbra, Portugal. Since 2022 associate professor at Università di Salerno, Italy.
• Ramon Vera (2018-20)
  First subsequent employment: Higher education teacher in Zürich, Switzerland.
• Ori Yudilevich (2016-19)
  First subsequent employment: Chief Technology Officer at Materials Zone, The Netherlands.

Ph.D. students:

• Nicolas Tribouillard
  (KU Leuven, September 2024-...)
• Tom Ariel
  (UAM Barcelona and KU Leuven, co-supervised with Roberto Rubio (UAB), March 2024-...)
• Andreas Schüssler
  (RU Nijmegen and KU Leuven, co-supervised with Ioan Marcut (RU Nijmegen), October 2021-...)
• Gilles Castel [Website]
  (KU Leuven, 2021-2022)
  Gilles stopped his Ph.D. studies in 2022.
  Before embarking in his Ph.D., he wrote a beautiful master thesis Morse Theory: a visual guide from handlebodies to the generalized Poincare' conjecture, under the supervision of Charlotte Kirchhoff-Lukat.
• Karandeep Singh
  (KU Leuven, 2019-2023)
  Thesis: Singular foliations and stability of fixed points in higher Lie theory.
  First subsequent employment: postdoc at MPIM Bonn. Then: postdoc at Universität Würzburg.
• Stephane Geudens
  (KU Leuven, 2017-2021, co-advisor: Ioan Marcut, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
  Thesis: On Submanifolds and Deformations in Poisson Geometry.
  First subsequent employment: postdoc at MPIM Bonn. Then postdoc at University College London
• Antonio Michele Miti [Website]
  (UCSC Brescia and KU Leuven, 2017-2021, co-advisor: Mauro Spera, UCSC Brescia)
  Thesis: Homotopy comomentum maps in multisymplectic geometry.
  First subsequent employment: postdoc at MPIM Bonn. Then postdoc at UCSC Brescia, then postdoc at Università di Roma La Sapienza.
• Leyli Mammadova
  (KU Leuven, 2016-20)
  Thesis: Moment maps in multisymplectic geometry.
  First subsequent employment: LMS Early Career Fellowship University of York. Then Teaching Associate in Pure Mathematics at University of Bristol, University Teacher in Mathematics at the Universtiy of Edinburgh.
• Alfonso Garmendia
  (KU Leuven, 2015-19)
  Thesis: Groupoids and singular foliations.
  First subsequent employment: postdoc at Universität Potsdam. Then postdoc at CRM Barcelona.

• Thomas Wittdouck
  (KU Leuven, as co-supervisor. Main supervisor: Jonas Deré, October 2020-September 2024).
  Thesis: Which closed manifolds admit an Anosov diffeomorphism?.

Master students:

• Jo Heynen
  (Master in mathematics, KU Leuven, 2024-...).
• Baljeetsingh Gurnasinghani
  (Master in mathematics, KU Leuven, 2023-2025).
  Thesis: Multisymplectic Manifolds and their Symmetries.
• Marco Pedemonti
  (Master in mathematics, KU Leuven, 2021-24).
  Thesis: Euler-Like Vector Fields.
• Kaichuan Qi
  (Master in mathematics, KU Leuven, 2020-22).
  Thesis: Integration of transitive Lie algebroids.
• Yenthe Deschryver
  (Master in mathematics, KU Leuven, 2019-21).
  Thesis: Geometry of Singular Foliations through their Universal Lie infinity-algebroid.
• Gregory van Kruijsdijk
  (Master in mathematics, KU Leuven, 2018-20).
  Thesis: The holonomy groupoid of foliations.
• Stephane Geudens
  (Master in mathematics, KU Leuven, 2015-17).
  Thesis: The geometry of log-symplectic manifolds.
• Carlos Shahbazi Alonso
  (Master in advanced mathematics, UNED Madrid, 2012-14, defended in 2016).
  Thesis: Strong homotopy Lie algebras arising from multisymplectic geometry.
• Alejo López
  (Master in mathematics, UAM Madrid, 2012-13).
  Thesis: Teorema de convexidad de la aplicación momento. (The convexity theorem for moment maps.)