Doctoral Candidates
The TopSCoLDS Doctoral Network brings together doctoral candidates across Europe working in low-dimensional topology, symplectic and contact topology, and related areas of geometry and topology.
Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
Mateusz Kujawski
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Weronika Obcowska
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Rebeka Szabó
Rebeka Szabó earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her master’s thesis, supervised by Chris Wendl, focused on Hamiltonian Floer homology in symplectic geometry. She is now a PhD student under the supervision of András Stipsicz at the Rényi Institute in Budapest, where she studies three-dimensional topology, particularly the connections between Heegaard Floer homology and branched covers.
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Marino Azzola
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Chiara Donatone
Chiara Donatone completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Milan. During her master’s studies, she spent a year as an exchange student at the University of Bonn, where she completed her master’s thesis on RBG links and knot traces. She is now a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, under the supervision of Brendan Owens, where her research focuses on 4-manifolds and knot theory.
Leonardo Migliorini
Leonardo Migliorini completed his master's degree at the University of Pisa, where he wrote his thesis on the construction of exotic, aspherical 4-manifolds. He is now a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, supervised by Mark Powell, and is currently working on non-orientable 3-manifolds.
Yavuz Rodoplu
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Nantes Université, France
Lite Du
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Enric Garriga Sànchez
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Saman Hallajian
Saman Hallajian completed his master's degree in Bonn and is now continuing his PhD with Marco Golla. He is interested in studying 4-manifolds via algebraic and geometric topology. He also enjoys exploring homotopy theory in his spare time.
Universität Regensburg, Germany
Andrej Matevc
Andrej Matevc completed bachelor and masters studies at the University of Ljubljana. His bachelor thesis was on (1+1)-dimensional TQFTs and Frobenius algebras, and his master thesis on the K-theoretic proof of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem. He is now doing his PhD at the University of Regensburg under the supervision of Stefan Friedl, where he will study problems in knot theory and 3-manifolds.
Universität Wien, Austria
Lisa Schambeck
Lisa Schambeck completed both her bachelor's and master's degree in Regensburg. Her master’s thesis was on the clasp number in classical knot theory under the supervision of Stefan Friedl. Now, she is a PhD student of Vera Vértesi at the University of Vienna. She is working on problems in contact topology, regarding Legendrian knots and convex surfaces.