A3G — Advances in Applied Algebraic Geometry Group, led by Fatemeh Mohammadi
Current PhD Students:
Maria Agustina Cagliero
Bruno Joaquín Giordano
Current MSc Students:
Bence Sógor (Project title: Toric Varieties in Algebraic Geometry)
Boris Kempynck (Project title: Solving structured polynomial systems arising from program verification)
Yusuf Berkay Çağlar (Project title: Derived Categories and Gentle-Like Categories)
Current Postdocs:
Signe Lundqvist
Rafael Mohr
Matthias Orth
Here is the list of previous members of my research groups at the Universities of Bristol, Ghent or KU Leuven.
Alumni (PhD Students):
Oliver Clarke (2017-2021, Bristol, now at University of Edinburgh)
Dissertation Title: Toric degenerations through matching fields and their polytopes
Harshit Motwani (2019-2020, Bristol, 2020-2023, U. Ghent)
Dissertation Title: Algebro-geometric algorithms for program synthesis, tensor networks, and conditional independence models
Francesca Zaffalon (2021-2024, KU Leuven, now at MPI Leipzig
Dissertation Title: Positroid stratification, tropicalization and toric Degenerations of Grassmannians
Alumni (MSc Students):
Lisa Vandebrouck (2024-2025, Maths Department, KU Leuven)
Dissertation Title: Cactus, Pascal, and Pappus point-Line configurations: an algebraic-geometric perspective
Zirui Yan (2023-2024, Computer Science Department, KU Leuven)
Dissertation Title: Addition laws on elliptic curves over rings
Cas Proost (2023-2024, now PhD student at KU Leuven)
Dissertation Title: Toric degenerations and Newton-Okounkov bodies
Zander Op de Beeck (2023-2024, Computer Science Department, KU Leuven, co-supervised with Lieven De Lathauwer and Nithin Govindarajan, now PhD student at KU Leuven)
Dissertation Title: Solving SAT problems as polynomial systems
Jasper Teunen (2022-2023, Computer Science Department, KU Leuven)
Dissertation Title: Simplification of quadratic systems arising from template-based synthesis of polynomial programs
Apurva Rai (2022, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, bachelor project)
Joe Chinoya (2021, at the AIMS South Africa, now Lecturer in Mathematics at University of Lusaka)
Dissertation Title: Introduction to Computational Algebraic Geometry
Sally Emerson (2019, won the Howell Peregrine Prize and the SU Education award)
Dissertation Title: Ideals, Affine Varieties and Toric Varieties
Andrew Ferguson (2019, won the Hasse Prize, now PhD student at Sorbonne University)
Dissertation Title: On Toric Ideals and Polyhedral Geometry
Harshit Motwani (2019, won the Best Master Project award at IIT Kharagpur)
Dissertation Title: Conditional Independence Ideals via Groebner Basis
Alumni (Postdocs):
Rémi Prébet (2024, KU Leuven, Research Scientist, Inria)
Janet Page (2018-2019, Bristol, Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University)
Kevin Grace (2018-2020, Bristol, Assistant Professor at the University of South Alabama)
Leonid Monin (2019-2021, Bristol, EPFL Lausanne)
Yairon Cid-Ruiz (2020-2022, Ghent, 2022-2023 KU Leuven, Assistant Professor at the North Carolina State University)
Xian Wu (2022, U. Ghent, Peking University)
Ahmed Ashraf (2022, U. Ghent, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto)
Ayush Tewari (2021-2022, U. Ghent, Postdoc at Linz)
Tim Seynaeve (2022-2023, KU Leuven)
Daniele Taufer (2022-2024, KU Leuven)
Alumni (Project/Research Students):
Giacomo Masiero (2022-2024, KU Leuven)
Thi Ngoc Anh Nguyen (2023-2024, KU Leuven)
Riccardo Invernizzi (2022-2023, KU Leuven)
David Avtandilov (2021, U. Ghent)
Apurva Rai (2021, IIT Kharagpur)
Vardhini Bhasker (2019, U. Bristol)
Charlie Thomas (2019, U. Bristol)
Visiting Students and Interns:
Nobukazu Kowaki (2025, Osaka University)
Shokhzod Kurokboev (2023, KU Leuven)
Riccardo Invernizzi (2022-2023, KU Leuven)
Corey DeGagne (2017, Dalhousie)
Harshit Motwani (2018-2019, IIT Kharagpur)
Laura Jakobsson (2019, Aalto University)
Bristol Undergraduate IMC Team: