Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation PhD graduates
Our PhD graduates from Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation have gone on to work in many places within academia and beyond. Here are the most recent ones:
- Julio Argota Quiroz (graduated 2024)
Thesis: Quantum gravity and Cosmological models on finite space-times
Supervisor: Shahn Majid - Chenxia Gu (graduated 2023)
Thesis: The Gregory-Laflamme Instability of Black Strings and Violation of the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture
Supervisor: Pau Figueras - Marica Minucci (graduated 2023)
Thesis: A conformal approach to the existence and asymptotic properties of solutions to the Einstein field equations
Supervisor: Juan Valiente Kroon - Mariem Mohamed (graduated 2023)
Thesis: Conformal representations of spatial infinity and the asymptotic charges on vacuum spacetimes
Supervisor: Juan Valiente Kroon - Louis Yudowitz (graduated 2023)
Thesis: Some results in ricci flow related to conical structures
Supervisor: Huy Nguyen
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Tiago França (graduated 2023)
Thesis: Binary Black Holes in Modified Gravity
Supervisor: Pau Figueras - George Macaulay (graduated 2023)
Thesis: Asymptotic Charges in General Relativity
Supervisor: Mahdi Godazgar
Subsequent role: Mathematics tutor - Alistair Miller (graduated 2022)
Thesis: K-theory for étale groupoid C*-algebras via groupoid correspondences and spectral sequences
Supervisor: Xin Li
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Researcher, - Alex McGill (graduated 2022)
Thesis: Unique Continuation and Holography in Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes
Supervisor: Arick Shao - Lorenzo Rossi (graduated 2022)
Thesis: Numerical evolution in asymptotically AdS spacetimes with no symmetries
Supervisor: Pau Figueras
Subsequent role: AI Consultant - Aryan Ghobadi (graduated 2022)
Thesis: Hopf Algebroids, Hopf Monads and Skew Braces
Supervisor: Shahn Majid
Subsequent role: Quant in Financial Sector - Vaibhav Kumar Jena (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Geometric Carleman estimates for wave equations and its applications in control theory
Supervisor: Arick Shao
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, TIFR Centre For Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore - Lewin Strauss (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Infinite Simplicial Complexes
Supervisor: Michael Farber
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL - Mikael Normann (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Matter Models in General Relativity
Supervisor: Juan Valiente-Kroon
Subsequent role: Associate Professor at University of South Eastern-Norway - Florian Litzinger (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Regularity theory and singularity analysis for certain geometric partial differential equations
Supervisor: Huy The Nguyen
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Researcher at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany - Gabriele Beltramo (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Topology, Metrics and Data: Computational Methods and Applications
Supervisor: Michael Farber
Subsequent role: AI Research Scientist - Gianmichele Di Matteo (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Local Singularity Theory for Ricci and Harmonic Ricci Flows
Supervisor: Reto Buzano
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie KIT - Peng Zhao (graduated 2021)
Thesis: The characteristic initial value problem in General Relativity
Supervisor: Juan Valiente-Kroon
Subsequent role: Assistant Professor at the Beijing Normal University campus Zuhai - Lewis Mead (graduated 2021)
Thesis: From Large to In nite Random Simplicial Complexes
Supervisor: Michael Farber
Subsequent role: Quantitative Developer at Quantile - Gabriel Cardona Rotger (graduated 2020)
Thesis: Numerical Relativity and Critical Black Holes
Supervisor: Pau Figueras
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad de Murcia - Zoltan Laczko (graduated 2020)
Thesis: Argyres-Douglas Theories and Chiral Algebras
Supervisor: Pau Figueras
Subsequent role: Quant at Man AHL - Ryann Kasyfil Aziz (graduated 2019)
Thesis: Bosonisations and Differentials on Inhomogeneous Quantum Groups
Supervisor: Shahn Majid
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Université libre de Bruxelles - Diego Carranza Ortiz (graduated 2019)
Thesis: CONFORMAL ANALYSIS OF ANTI-DE SITTER-LIKE SPACETIMES
Supervisor: Juan Valiente-Kroon
Subsequent role: Data Scientist at BBVA - Liam Williams (graduated 2019)
Thesis: Quantum Riemannian geometry and its semiclassical structures
Supervisor: Shahn Majid
Subsequent role: Quantitative Analyst at Quantile Technologies - Jarrod Williams (graduated 2019)
Thesis: Perturbative analysis of the Conformal Constraint Equations in General Relativity
Supervisor: Juan Valiente-Kroon
Subsequent role: Scientific Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute - Matthew Bassett (graduated 2018)
Thesis: Bost-Connes type dynamics and arithmetic of function fields
Supervisor: Xin Li - Michael Cole (graduated 2018)
Thesis: Spinorial characterisations of rotating black hole spacetimes
Supervisor: Juan Valiente-Kroon
Subsequent role: Senior Data Scientist at C3 AI - Edgar Gasperin Garcia (graduated 2018)
Thesis: Applications of conformal methods to the analysis of global properties of solutions to the Einstein field equations
Supervisor: Juan Valiente-Kroon
Subsequent role: FCT Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico - Adem Hursit (graduated 2018)
Thesis: Applications of Conformal Methods to Relativistic Trace-free Matter Models
Supervisor: Juan Valiente-Kroon
Subsequent role: Freelance tutor