Supervisors
The TopSCoLDS Doctoral Network unites many supervisors across Europe, with expertise spanning low dimensional topology, symplectic and contact topology, and algebraic geometry.
Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
Marco Marengon
Marco Marengon received his PhD from Imperial College London in 2017. Currently he is a senior research fellow at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest. His research interests include 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds, knot concordance, surfaces in 4-manifolds, Heegaard Floer homology, and Khovanov homology.
Webpage: https://users.renyi.hu/~marengon/
András Némethi
András Némethi received his PhD at Ohio State University, where he spent 14 years. Currently he is professor at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest. He works primarily in singularity theory of complex varieties and their connection with (low dimensional) topology. He authored several research papers and books including the monograph `Normal Surface Singularities'.
Webpage: https://users.renyi.hu/~nemethi/
András Stipsicz
András Stipsicz got his PhD in 1994 from Rutgers University, New Jersey. Currently he is a professor at the Rényi Institute in Mathematics in Budapest, Hungary. His main interest lies in smooth four-dimensional topology and contact topology in dimension three. He authored several research papers and books, including the monographs ‘4-manifolds and Kirby calculus’ with Robert Gompf, ’Surgery on contact 3-manifolds and Stein surfaces’ with Burak Ozbagci and ‘Grid homology for knots and links’ with Peter Ozsvath and Zoltán Szabó.
Webpage: https://users.renyi.hu/~stipsicz/
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Ana Lecuona
Ana G. Lecuona obtained her PhD in 2010 from the University of Pisa, Italy. After post-doc positions in Germany, France and the USA she became a maître de conférences in Marseilles, France, in 2012. In 2018 she moved to the University of Glasgow, where she is now a professor. Her main interests are in knot theory, particularly in questions around the slice-ribbon conjecture.
Brendan Owens
Brendan Owens in a professor in the University of Glasgow. He received his PhD in 2000 from Columbia University, as a student of John Morgan. He works in smooth low-dimensional topology.
Webpage: https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~bowens/
Mark Powell
Mark Powell obtained his PhD in 2011 from the University of Edinburgh. After positions in Indiana, Montréal, and Durham, he is now a professor at the University of Glasgow. He works primarily on 4-manifold topology. Current interests are classifications of 4-manifolds, the theory of knotted surfaces, and mapping class groups of 4-manifolds. He was one of the editors of the book `The disc embedding theorem'.
Andy Wand
Andy Wand received his PhD in 2010 from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Robion Kirby. Currently he is a professor at the University of Glasgow. His main interests lies in smooth four-dimensional topology and contact topology in dimension three.
Webpage: https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~awand/
Nantes Université, France
Vincent Colin
Vincent Colin is currently a professor at Nantes Université and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His work focuses on contact topology and its interactions with dynamical systems, low-dimensional topology and foliation theory.
Fabio Gironella
Fabio Gironella received his PhD from Ecole Polytechnique in 2018. Currently he is a chargé de recherche CNRS at Nantes Université. His research focuses on symplectic and contact topology, especially in high-dimensions.
Webpage: https://fabiogironella.com
Marco Golla
Marco Golla is a Chargé de recherche at Nantes Université. He is interested in 3.5-dimensional topology and its interactions with complex algebraic geometry, singularity theory, and contact and symplectic topology.
Universität Regensburg, Germany
Stefan Friedl
Stefan Friedl got his PhD in 2003 at Brandeis University. He had positions in Munich, Houston, Montreal, Warwick and Cologne. Since 2013 he is professor at the University of Regensburg. He is interested in low-dimensional topology and related algebra. He likes to write topology lecture notes.
Universitat Wien, Austria
Vera Vértesi
Vera Vértesi completed her PhD in 2009 in Budapest. Before joining the University of Vienna, she held research positions at CNRS in Strasbourg and Nantes, was a CLE Moore Instructor at MIT, and held postdoctoral appointments at MSRI and the Rényi Institute. Her work focuses on classification and structural questions for contact 3-manifolds and the Legendrian and transverse knots they contain, using tools from Heegaard Floer homology and contact homology. Apart from working with classical techniques such as convex surfaces, open books, and Heegaard Floer homology, she is interested in extending ideas from three-dimensional contact topology to higher dimensions.
Associate supervisors
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Jonathan Bowden
Jonathan Bowden received his PhD from Ludwig-Maximiliians-University, Munich in 2010. He is currently a Heisenberg Professor at Leibniz University Hannover. His research interests include symplectic and contact topology, foliations as well as dynamical aspects of group actions and flows.