Looking for thesis supervision?

If you are an ETH student interested in doing a

  • BSc thesis
  • MSc thesis
  • Semester project
  • Reading course

then feel free to contact me.

For MSc theses, you must have a strong background in differential geometry. I am fully booked until Spring 2020 for BSc theses and Summer 2020 for MSc theses though!

Previous students:

Here is a list of my previous students. I hope I didn't forget anyone... All projects available here are uploaded with their author's consent. Prospective students might find browsing through them useful.

  • Kathrin Naef: The Gysin Sequence in Morse Homology (MSc thesis, 2013)
  • Mads Bisgaard: On Hamiltonian flows which do not admit conjugate points (Semester project, Spring 2014)
  • Mads Bisgaard: The intersection product on Morse-Bott homology (MSc thesis, 2015)
  • Grace Mwakyoma: A link between Hofer’s Geometry and Aubry-Mather Theory (MSc thesis, 2015)
  • Florian Zeiser: Morse homology of Lagrange multipliers via adiabatic limits (MSc thesis, 2016)
  • Davide Dandrea: Low-Energy Closed Orbits in the Restricted Three-Body Problem: a Proof of Existence (BSc thesis, Spring 2017)
  • Arnaud Maret: Interval maps and Li-Yorke chaos (Semester project, Spring 2017) ↬ Available here.
  • Alessio Pellegrini: Morse theory (Reading course, Spring 2017) ↬ Available here.
  • Kthim Imeri: Introduction to Julia Set Theory (Semester project, Spring 2017) ↬ Available here.
  • Florian Rossmannek: An Introduction to Complex Dynamics and the Mandelbrot Set (BSc thesis, Autumn 2017) ↬ Available here.
  • Kathrin Naef: Translated points on dynamically convex contact manifolds (PhD, 2014–2018)
  • Arnaud Maret: Forcing relations for periodic orbits of surface homeomorphisms (MSc thesis, 2018) ↬ Available here.
  • Niclas Küpper: 4-Manifolds and their Intersection Forms (BSc thesis, Spring 2018) ↬ Available here.
  • Alessio Pellegrini: Products and Spectral Numbers in Novikov-Morse Homology (MSc thesis, 2018) ↬ Available here.
  • Gilles Englebert: Axiomatic Morse Homology (BSc thesis, Spring 2018) ↬ Available here.
  • Malcolm Cameron: Exotic 7-Spheres (BSc thesis, Spring 2019) ↬ Available here.
  • Sylvain Rossi: On an axiomatisation of differential geometry: Synthetic Differential Geometry (BSc thesis, Spring 2019) ↬ Available here.
  • David Lanners: Persistence Modules and Barcodes (BSc thesis, Spring 2019) ↬ Available here.
  • Florian Rossmannek: Magnetic and Exotic Anosov Hamiltonian Structures (MSc thesis, 2019) ↬ Available here.
  • Oliver Edtmair: A counterexample concerning the behaviour of local Floer homology under iterations (MSc thesis, 2019).
  • Shaowu Zhang: Floer homology (Reading course, Spring 2019).
  • Ana Žegarac: First Steps Towards Berger's Classification Theorem (Semester project, Spring 2019) ↬ Available here.

Current students:

  • Alessio Pellegrini: (PhD, Autumn 2018+).
  • Matilde Gianocca: Transparent connections (BSc thesis, Fall 2019)
  • Yannis Bähni: The $\omega$-limit set of a family of periodic orbits (MSc thesis, 2019).
  • Tommaso Botta: Algebraic Topology II (Reading course, Fall 2019).
  • Felix Waller: (MSc thesis, 2019).
  • Ana Žegarac: (MSc thesis, 2019).
  • Gilles Englebert: Instanton Floer homology (MSc thesis, 2019).
  • Han Li: (MSc thesis, 2019).
  • Martina Joergensen: Topological Entropy of Rational Maps (Semester project, Fall 2019).
  • Emanuel Malvetti: Symplectic Geometric Invariant Theory (Semester project, Fall 2019).