07-07-2026

A milestone on the academic journey

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science celebrated doctoral graduates

On 3 July 2026, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science held its graduation ceremony in the "Schloss". All doctoral graduates who successfully completed their doctorate in the past year were invited to attend, along with their families and friends.

During the event, the newly awarded graduates presented highlights from their doctoral studies and shared insights into their research findings, showcasing the broad range of topics covered within the faculty.

Following the presentations, the official oath ceremony and the presentation of the doctoral certificates were conducted by the dean, Prof. Dr Arthur Bartels. The musical framework was provided by Chun-Kai Chien, who created a festive atmosphere with piano pieces by Franz Schubert, George Gershwin and Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow.

We congratulate all graduates on their achievements and wish them all the best for the future!

Special congratulations go to the doctoral graduates from Mathematics Münster:

Marco Sthefano Amelio: Non-split sharply 2-transitive groups of odd characteristic and geometric small cancellation
Supervisor: Katrin Tent

Konrad Jakob Bals: On Arithmetic Cohomology and Topological Periodic Theories
Supervisor: Thomas Nikolaus

Sira Busch: Groups of Automorphisms of Spherical Buildings
Supervisor: Linus Kramer

Alessandro Codenotti: Dynamics of one dimensional spaces and tame systems And their interactions with model theory
Supervisor: Aleksandra Kwiatkowska

Friedrich Jakob Dittmer: The Berger conjecture for three dimensional manifolds
Supervisor: Burkhard Wilking

Katharina Harengel: Combinatorial Relations from the BKP Integrable Hierarchy for Kontsevich-Type Matrix Models & the Combinatorial Structure of Correlation Functions in the Quartic Kontsevich Model
Supervisor: Raimar Wulkenhaar

Malte Bernhard Höltershinken: New mathematics for EEG/MEG source analysis and individually optimized transcranial electric stimulation and application in a case study of focal epilepsy
Supervisor: Christian Engwer

Margarete Ketelsen: Understanding the model theory of henselian valued fields by parts
Supervisor: Franziska Jahnke

Judith Marie Lutz: p-adic points of rational Witt spaces
Supervisor: Christopher Deninger

Spyridon Petrakos: Operator algebras, regularity, and groups of dynamical origin
Supervisor: David Kerr

Konstantin Julian Recke: Percolation and the geometry of groups and graphs
Supervisor: Chiranjib Mukherjee

Chunqiu Song: Stochastic Quantization for the ϕ4 Theory on 2-d Moyal Space
Supervisor: Hendrik Weber

David Albert Steigenberger: Random Beta-Type Polytopes Explicit formulas for expectations of angles, volumes and other geometric functionals
Supervisor: Zakhar Kabluchko

Thomas Tony: Scalar Curvature Comparison Geometry and Higher Index Theory
Supervisor: Rudolf Zeidler

Piotr Pawel Wozniak: On the variational convergence of high-contrast and stochastic functionals
Supervisor: Caterina Zeppieri