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Group of Peter Topping, past and present

Current PhD students:
  • Arjun Sobnack
  • Laura Bradby (joint with Felix Schulze)
  • Žan Bajuk (joint with Felix Schulze)
Previous postdocs and long-term visitors:

(career trajectories may be out of date)

  • Joerg Enders (PhD Michigan State, left to Max Planck AEI, then Potsdam uni)
  • Fernando Schwartz (PhD Cornell/Stanford, left to Associate Prof. at UT Knoxville)
  • Esther Cabezas-Rivas (PhD Valencia, left to Muenster, then prof. at Frankfurt, now U Valencia)
  • Reto Mueller (Phd ETH-Zuerich, left to SNS Pisa, then Imperial, now permanent at Queen Mary, London and Turin)
  • Michael Munn (PhD CUNY, left to CUNY, then U Missouri, then NYU, now Google.)
  • 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 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, then Paris VI, now prof at Orsay)
  • 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, left to Tongji, now University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  • Norman Zergaenge (PhD Magdeburg, left to Hannover)
  • Lucas Ambrozio (PhD IMPA, left to Princeton IAS, permanent at IMPA from summer 2020)
  • Raphael Hochard (PhD Bordeaux)
  • Man Chun Lee (PhD CUHK, now prof at CUHK)
  • Shengwen Wang (PhD Johns Hopkins, now permanent at QMUL)
  • Yi Lai (PhD UC Berkeley, postdoc Stanford, now UC Irvine) - spring/summer 2023.
  • Or Hershkovits (visited from Hebrew university, Jerusalem, Autumn 2023).
  • Pak-Yeung Chan (PhD U. Minnesota, then UC San Diego).
Previous PhD students:
  • Neil Course
  • Gregor Giesen
  • Ben Sharp
  • Sebastian Helmensdorfer
  • Michael Coffey
  • Tobias Huxol
  • Andrew McLeod
  • Louis Bonthrone (joint with Weiyi Zhang)
  • Luke Peachey
Previous Masters students:

(and destination for their PhD)

  • Ronan Conlon -> Imperial
  • Iva Passoni -> IMPA
  • Stuart Hall -> Imperial
  • Ben Wells-Day -> Cambridge
  • Michael Coffey -> Warwick
  • Matthew Schrecker ->Oxford
  • Jonah Duncan -> Oxford
  • James Kohout -> Oxford
  • John Green -> Edinburgh
  • Robert Walters (left to finance industry)
  • Manuel Ruivo De Oliveira -> UBC
  • Alex Zhou -> King's College London
  • Patrik Coulibaly -> UBC
  • Sacha Grabner -> Graphcore (semiconductors for Machine Learning)
  • Henry Popkin -> Bath
  • Sebastian Woodward -> Oxford.