Postdocs

Current postdocs:

Former postdocs:​

  • Aldo Witte (Feb-Sept 2023 EoS-2 funded, from Oct 2023 onward UA BOF opvangmandaat), now postdoc at Universität Hamburg/ Germany.
  • Marta Farré (2020-2023, FWO senior postdoc).
  • Joseph Palmer (2019-2023, first UA-MarieCurie-Opvang funded, then FWO-funded, 2020-2024 also affiliated with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), now tenure-track assistant professor in Amherst/ USA.
  • Tom Mestdag (2016-2023; between 2018-2020 partially EoS-1 funded), now a professor at the University of Antwerp.
  • Yannick Gullentops (2022), now working at Agenta in Antwerp/ Belgium.
  • Jaume Alonso (2019-2020, EoS-1 funded), now at TU Berlin/ Germany.
  • Marine Fontaine (2018-2021, EoS-1 funded), now at University of Warwick/ UK.

PhD students

Ongoing PhD projects:

  1. Senne Ignoul (Universiteit Antwerpen), since October 2021, FWO PhD scholarship.
  2. Tobias Henriksen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen & Universiteit Antwerpen), co-advised with Nikolay Martynchuk & Holger Waalkens, since September 2022, Groningen & EoS-2 funded.
  3. Pedro Santos (Universiteit Antwerpen), since October 2022, EoS-2 funded.
  4. Kenzo Yasaka (Universiteit Antwerpen, co-advised with Tom Mestdag, since October 2022, BOF DocPro4 funded.
  5. Constant Huiszoon (Universiteit Antwerpen), since January 2023, FWO-project funded.
  6. Matteo Manenti (Universiteit Antwerpen), since November 2024, EoS-2 funded.

Finished PhD projects:

  1. Joaquim Brugués (2019-2024, UPC Barcelona & Universiteit Antwerpen, FI Agaur grant & EoS-1 funded, co-advised with Eva Miranda (UPC Barcelona)), defended on March 20, 2024; Title of PhD thesis: "Floer Homology for 𝑏-symplectic manifolds".
  2. Güner Muarem (2019-2023, Universiteit Antwerpen, EoS-1 funded, co-advised with David Eelbode), defended on Sept 5, 2023; Title of PhD thesis: "Point vortex dynamics and symplectic Dirac operators".
  3. Sándor Hajdú (2018-2022, Universiteit Antwerpen, Dehoussemandaat, co-advised with Tom Mestdag), defended on May 30, 2022; Title of PhD thesis: "Jacobi fields, conjugate points and nonlinear splittings in Finsler geometry and related fields".
  4. Yannick Gullentops (2017-2022, Universiteit Antwerpen, BOF-DocPro4 and subsequently EoS-1 funded), defended on March 16, 2022; Title of PhD thesis: "Hyperbolic singularities in the presence of S1-actions and Hamiltonian PDEs".
  5. Jaume Alonso (2015-2019, Universiteit Antwerpen, BOF-DocPro4 funded), defended on Sept 11, 2019. Title of PhD thesis: "On the symplectic invariants of semitoric systems". Now a postdoc at TU Berlin, Germany.

Master students

Ongoing projects:

  1. Louis Van Gaelen (Universiteit Antwerpen).
  2. Linde De Grave (Universiteit Antwerpen; Educatieve Master; co-advised with Kenzo Yasaka).

Finished projects:

  1. Naomi Flamand (Universiteit Antwerpen), Spring 2024: "Hirzebruch surfaces, flaps and swallowtails".
  2. Caitlin Van Herck (Universiteit Antwerpen; Educatieve Master; co-advised with Senne Ignoul), Spring 2024: "Suggesties Onderzoekruimte wiskunde met extra ondersteuning voor de leerkracht".
  3. Maarten De Locht (Universiteit Antwerpen; Educatieve Master; co-advised with Senne Ignoul), Spring 2024: "Convexiteit in Hamiltoniaanse Lie Groepen".
  4. Senne Ignoul (Universiteit Antwerpen), Spring 2021: "Integrability in contact geometry".
  5. Annelies De Meulenare (Universiteit Antwerpen), Spring 2019: "Semitoric systems with multiple focus-focus singularities".
  6. Güner Muarem (Universiteit Antwerpen, co-advised with David Eelbode, Spring 2019: "Symplectic methods in Clifford algebra and analysis: Towards a symplectic Fueter theorem".
  7. Victor Feyen (Universiteit Antwerpen, co-advised with Wim Vanroose), Autumn 2018: "Primary Floer homology of homoclinic tangles".
  8. Yannick Gullentops (Universiteit Antwerpen), spring 2017: "A Conley-Zehnder index in hyperkähler Floer theory."
  9. Fabian Guignard (EPFL, Lausanne; spring 2014; coadvised with Marc Troyanov): "Etude des géodésiques en géométrie riemannienne."

Bachelor students

Ongoing projects:

  1. Jolien Van der Haegen (Universiteit Antwerpen; co-advised with Senne Ignoul).
  2. Youp Heida (Universiteit Antwerpen; co-advised with Senne Ignoul).
  3. Han Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen; Bachelor Physics; co-advised with Tobias Henriksen).
  4. Elias Thierens (Universiteit Antwerpen; Bachelor Physics; co-advised with Pedro Santos).

Finished projects: 

  1. Malika Belrhazi (Universiteit Antwerpen), Spring 2021: "Hamiltoniaanse systemen".
  2. Christian Suys (Universiteit Antwerpen), Spring 2021: "Greense functies".
  3. Wieneke Op 't Land (Universiteit Antwerpen), Spring 2020:"Variatierekening".
  4. Jef Winant (Universiteit Antwerpen), Spring 2020: "Stabiliteitsanalyse bij periodieke oplossingen van differentiaalvergelijkingen".
  5. Manon Demey (Universiteit Antwerpen, co-advised with Jaume Alonso), Spring 2019:"Dynamiek en modelisatie van chemische reacties: de Brusselator en het model van Schnackenberg".
  6. Annelies De Meulenaere (Universiteit Antwerpen), spring 2017: "De Horseshoe Afbeelding."
  7. Grzegorz Kielanski (Universiteit Antwerpen), spring 2017: "De kwadratische familie Fμ (x) = μx(1 - x)."
  8. Lauranne Claes (Universiteit Antwerpen), co-advised with Jaume Alonso, spring 2017: "Dynamische systemen in één complexe variabele."
  9. Nathanaël Persoz (EPFL, Lausanne; coadvised with Tudor Ratiu), spring 2014: "Gromov's non-squeezing theorem in symplectic geometry".