Young Research Fellows

November to December 2025
Host: Benedikt Wirth

Dr. Karol Bołbotowski has recently been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. He works in the field of calculus of variations, focusing on the optimal design of mechanical structures. By combining tools from geometric measure theory and convex analysis, he investigates new links between efficient structural forms and optimal Monge-Kantorovich transport.

October 2025 to January 2026
Host: Christopher Deninger

Dr. Thu-Hà Triệu is currently a tenure track Lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Hanoi University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on arithmetic and algebraic geometry, particularly on higher regulators, periods, motivic cohomology, Deligne-Beilinson cohomology, special values of L-functions, and their relationship to the classical Mahler measure of polynomials. 

October to December 2025
Host: Thomas Nikolaus

Dr. Guido Arnone has recently completed his doctorate at Universidad de Buenos Aires. His research interests centre on algebraic bivariant K-theory, which he applies to ring-theoretic classification, as an algebraic counterpart to the Kirchberg-Phillips classification programme for C*-algebras. 

February 2025
Host: Guilherme De Lima Feltes

Dr. Peter Morfe is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. He is an expert in the theory of homogenisation of elliptic and parabolic differential operators, including the case of operators with random coefficients.
 

January to February 2025
Hosts: Benjamin Brück and Katrin Tent

Dr. Radhika Gupta is a Reader at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Her work is mostly in geometric group theory, where she made important contributions on the geometry of CAT(0) groups and free-by-cyclic groups. She is an expert on the geometry of outer automorphism groups of free groups.

September to December 2024
Host: Franziska Jahnke

Dr. Sylvy Anscombe, Maîtresse de Conférences at the Université Paris Cité, works at the interface of mathematical logic and algebra. Her works include a proof of the existential decidability of F_p((t)), uniform existential definability of p-adic holomorphy rings, and a classification of henselian NIP fields in terms of their residue fields.

September 2024
Host: Linus Kramer

Dr. Amandine Escalier works in geometric group theory and measured dynamics at Université Lyon 1. She plans to work with Linus Kramer on graph products and right-angled Artin groups, and with David Kerr on orbit equivalence of measurable actions.

July 2024
Host: Rudolf Zeidler

Dr. Simone Cecchini is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University and works at the interface of global analysis and topology, where he is particularly known for his contributions to the study of metric properties in scalar curvature geometry.

July 2024
Host: Masoumeh Zarei

Dr. Philipp Reiser's (Université de Fribourg) research is motivated by the long-standing question of how the topology and geometry of Riemannian manifolds interact.

September to December 2023
Hosts: Katrin Tent and Aleksandra Kwiatkowska

Dr. Colin Reid, postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Information and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia, has played a major role in building the modern theory of totally disconnected locally compact (t.d.l.c.) groups, making a number of fundamental discoveries across all aspects of the theory. In 2023, he was awarded the Bessel Research Award.

July to August 2023
Host: Anusha Krishnan

Dr. Francesco Pediconi  is a Junior Assistant Professor ("RTD-a" in the Italian system) at the Università di Firenze, working in real and complex differential geometry.

July to August 2023
Host: Christoph Böhm

Izar Alonso Lorenzo is a fourth year DPhil student at the University of Oxford. Her research interests are in differential geometry. She is working on G_2- and SU(3)- structures, under symmetry assumptions.

June to July 2023
Host: Siegfried Echterhoff

Dr. Christian Bönicke (University of Newcastle) is an expert on K-theory and Homology theory for (C*-algebras) of groupoids and their applications.

Sommersemester 2023
Host: Kristin Courtney

Dr. Priyanga Ganesan holds a prestigious President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California San Diego. Her research interest revolves around operator algebras and their connections with quantum information theory. In 2023, she also received a WiRe Fellowship for international female postdoctoral researchers at the University of Münster.

April bis Juni 2023
Host: Katrin Tent

Dr. Agatha Atkarskaya is a postdoc at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and specialises in group and ring theory.

Winter semester 2022
Host: Katrin Tent

Dr. Daniel Max Hoffmann is a Samuel Eilenberg Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. His research interests are model theory, Galois theory, difference and differential algebra and group theory.

April to May 2022
Host: Anna Siffert

Dr. Víctor Sanmartín López has a tenure-track position at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and is conducting research on the theory of isometric actions and submanifold theory in the context of Riemannian geometry, with special focus on the study of submanifolds in symmetric spaces.

Dezember 2021 bis April 2022
Host: Gustav Holzegel

Leonhard Kehrberger is a 4th year PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Mihalis Dafermos. His research is concerned with the study of partial differential equations in general relativity.

July to August 2021
Host: Benedikt Wirth

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Martin Holler's (University of Graz) field of research is the mathematics of inverse problems and data science.

July to August 2021
Host: Hans-Joachim Hein

Dr. Tristan Ozuch's (MIT) research is focused on geometric analysis and particularly on Einstein manifolds and Ricci flows.

July 2021
Host: Hannes Thiel

Eduard Vilalta is a doctoral student at the UAB Barcelona and is working on establishing connections between structural properties of C*-algebras and their categories of Hilbert modules (Cuntz semigroups).

November 2020 to June 2021
Host: Gustav Holzegel

Dr. Gabriele Benomio is a Research Scholar (postdoc) at The Princeton Gravity Initiative. He works on stability and instability phenomena for black hole spacetimes.

January 2020
Host: Thomas Nikolaus

Dr. Tom Bachmann (MIT) is a young, uprising researcher in motivic homotopy theory and K-theory.