Doctoral highlights

2026

• Malte B. Höltershinken wrote “New mathematics for EEG/MEG source analysis and individually optimized transcranial electric stimulation and application in a case study of focal epilepsy”, supervised by Christian Engwer and Carsten H. Wolters. He later continued as a postdoc at the University of Münster.
• Margarete Ketelsen completed “Understanding the model theory of henselian valued fields by parts” with Franziska Jahnke as advisor and subsequently took up a postdoc position at the University of Bonn.
• Thomas Tony, with Rudolf Zeidler as supervisor, wrote “Scalar curvature comparison geometry and higher index theory” and later became a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University.
• Sira Busch wrote “Groups of automorphisms of spherical buildings” guided by Linus Kramer and afterwards joined the University of Iceland as a postdoc.

Graduate Ceremony on 3 July 2026 (news article): all doctoral graduates who successfully completed their doctorate in the past year at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. 

2025

• David Steigenberger wrote “Random Beta-Type Polytopes Explicit formulas for expectations of angles, volumes and other geometric functionals” with Zakhar Kabluchko as doctoral advisor.
• Spyridon Petrakos completed “Operator algebras, regularity, and groups of dynamical origin” supervised by David Kerr and later held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Gothenburg.
• Marco Sthefano Amelio wrote “Non-split sharply 2-transitive groups of odd characteristic and geometric small cancellation” under Katrin Tent and afterwards took a postdoc at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
• Konrad Bals wrote “On Arithmetic Cohomology and Topological Periodic Theories” with Thomas Nikolaus as supervisor.
• Simone Ramello completed “Towards a model theory of Frobenius lifts – Valued difference Fields and Definable Henselian Valuations” supervised jointly by Martin Hils and Franziska Jahnke and later moved into science communication.
• Bastian Müller wrote “Optimal transport for stationary point processes” with Martin Huesmann as advisor.
• Grigorios Kopsacheilis wrote “Regularity properties of C*-diagonal pairs and topological dynamics” under Wilhelm Winter and subsequently became a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven.
• Konstantin Recke completed “Percolation and the geometry of groups and graphs” supervised by Chiranjib Mukherjee and later became a Titchmarsh Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College.
• Friedrich Jakob Dittmer wrote “The Berger conjecture for three dimensional manifolds” with Burkhard Wilking as advisor.

Graduate Ceremony on 4 July 2025 (news article): all doctoral graduates who successfully completed their doctorate in the past year at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. 

2024

• David Tobias Meyer completed “Regularity and stability in vortex dynamics” under Christian Seis and afterwards took a postdoc at MPI Leipzig.
• Petr Naryshkin wrote “Classifiability of crossed products” supervised by David Kerr and later became a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study.
• Lennart Machill wrote “Effective Theories in Nonlinear Thermoviscoelasticity” with Manuel Friedrich as doctoral advisor and subsequently took up a postdoc position at the University of Bonn.
• Alessandro Codenotti completed “Dynamics of one dimensional spaces and tame systems and their interactions with model theory” with Aleksandra Kwiatkowska as supervisor and later became a postdoc at the University of Bologna.
• Adrian Riekert wrote “Mathematical Analysis of Gradient Methods in the Training of Artificial Neural Networks” supervised by Arnulf Jentzen and afterwards continued as a postdoc at the University of Münster. He was awarded the Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning Best Thesis Award. 
• Philip Möller wrote “Locally compact groups, automatic continuity and geometric group theory” under Linus Kramer.

Graduate Ceremony on 22 July 2024 (news article): all doctoral graduates who successfully completed their doctorate in the past semester at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. 
Graduate Ceremony on 5 February 2024 (news article): all doctoral graduates who successfully completed their doctorate in the past semester at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

2023

• Julian Kranz completed “Amenable actions on C*-Algebras” with Siegfried Echterhoff as supervisor. The thesis was awared with the  University's dissertation prize. Julian continued his research at the University of Oxford and lateron returned to the University of Münster as a postdoc.
• Jeroen Winkel wrote “Rigidity properties in coarse geometry” supervised by Tim de Laat and later went into quantitative finance.
• Andreas Lietz wrote “Forcing $NS_{\omega_1}$ Is ${\omega_1}$-Dense: From Large Cardinals” with Ralf Schindler as doctoral advisor and afterwards took up a postdoc position at TU Wien. The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) has awarded him the Sacks Prize for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic in 2023.

Graduate Ceremony in Juy 2023 (news article): all doctoral graduates who successfully completed their doctorate in the past semester at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Graduate Ceremony in February 2023 (news article): all doctoral graduates who successfully completed their doctorate in the past semester at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

2022 and prior

• Jan Nienhaus completed “An improved Four-periodicity Theorem and a Conjecture of Hopf with Symmetry” with Burkhard Wilking as supervisor and later became a postdoc at KU Leuven. 
• Thomas Godland was awarded the University's. 
• Tim Keil wrote “Adaptive Reduced Basis Methods for Multiscale Problems and Large-scale PDE-constrained Optimization” supervised by Mario Ohlberger and subsequently became a senior consultant at TNG Technology Consulting. 

Graduate Ceremony in Juy 2022 (news article): all doctoral graduates who successfully completed their doctorate in the past semester at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Graduate Ceremony in February 2022 (news article): all doctoral graduates who successfully completed their doctorate in the past semester at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Doctoral graduates (summer semester 2021) who successfully completed their doctorate at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Doctoral graduates (winter semester 2020/2021) who successfully completed their doctorate at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Doctoral graduates (summer semester 2020) who successfully completed their doctorate at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

• Annika Bach was awarded the University's disseration prize 2019 for her thesis in the field of Calculus of Variations.