The primary funder of our activity this year is EPSRC (UK).

Details of the wider group can be found here.

Further information from Peter Topping at

Postdoctoral fellows and long-term visitors

• Raphael Hochard (PhD Bordeaux)

PhD students

• Louis Bonthrone (joint with Weiyi Zhang)
• Luke Peachey
• Arjun Sobnack

Other faculty include:

• Mario Micallef
• Andrea Mondino

My previous PhD students:

• Neil Course
• Gregor Giesen
• Ben Sharp
• Sebastian Helmensdorfer
• Michael Coffey
• Tobias Huxol
• Andrew McLeod

My recent/finishing postdocs and long-term visitors

• Joerg Enders (PhD Michigan State, left to Max Planck AEI, now Potsdam uni)
• Fernando Schwartz (PhD Cornell/Stanford, left to Associate Prof. at UT Knoxville)
• Esther Cabezas-Rivas (PhD Valencia, left to Muenster, now prof. at Frankfurt)
• Reto Mueller (Phd ETH-Zuerich, left to SNS Pisa, then Imperial, now permanent at Queen Mary, London)
• Michael Munn (PhD CUNY, left to CUNY, then U Missouri, then NYU.)
• Giuseppe Tinaglia (PhD Johns Hopkins, postdocs Stanford, Notre Dame, now permanent at King's college London)
• Melanie Rupflin (PhD ETH-Zuerich, left to Max-Planck-AEI, Golm, then Leipzig, now permanent at Oxford.)
• Charles Baker (PhD ANU-Canberra, currently applying postdoc work to image processing for medical scanners in clinical setting)
• Huy Nguyen (PhD ANU-Canberra, postdoc Max Planck AEI, left to UQ Brisbane, now permanent at Queen Mary Uni London.)
• Miaomiao Zhu (PhD Max Planck Leipzig, postdoc ETH-Zuerich, left to MPI Leipzig, now Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
• Simon Blatt (PhD TU Aachen, previously postdoc ETH-Zuerich, left to Karlsruhe Inst. Tech., now at Uni. Salzburg)
• Hojoo Lee (PhD KIAS, S. Korea, left to KIAS, now asst professor at Seoul National University)
• Panagiotis Gianniotis (PhD Stony Brook, left to UCL, and Fields institute, now permanent at Athens)
• Xiangrong Zhu (left to Zhejiang Normal University)
• Alix Deruelle (PhD Grenoble, left to Orsay, Paris, now permanent at Paris VI)
• Magdalena Rodriguez (long-term visitor, now permanent at Granada)
• Hao Yin (visited from University of Science and Technology of China for 12 months, thanks to the China Scholarship Council)
• Paul Bryan (PhD Australian National University, Canberra, postdoc UCSD, left to UQ Brisbane, now permanent at Macquarie University, Sydney)
• Wenshuai Jiang (PhD Peking University, now permanent at Zhejiang University)
• Kai Zheng (PhD Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, now at Tongji)
• Norman Zergaenge (PhD Magdeburg, now at Hannover)
• Lucas Ambrozio (PhD IMPA, now at Princeton IAS)

We also host a few dozen shorter term visitors each year, generally to give seminars. Details can be found via my home page.