Teaching 2025/2026

Bachelor and master projects

I am happy to supervise theses in spectral geometry, hamiltonian mechanics, symplectic or contact geometry, sub-Riemannian geometry, semiclassical analysis, geometric integration, ergodic theory and mathematical billiards.

Feel free to contact me, especially if you are interested in a project around spectral theory, sub-Riemannian geometry or constructive mathematics (theorem proving in Lean), but I am generally open to discuss possible ideas also outside those subjects.

Former students at RUG

Mathematics
Bachelor Projects
  • Brongers, B.: An Exploration of Gauge Theory and the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem (2021) [link]
  • Jagoe Brown, M.: Why is it so messy to eat a mille-feuilles? (2022) [link]
  • Krijgsheld, H.: Travelling through sub-Riemannian spaces: the Chow-Rashevskii theorem and sub-Riemannian geodesics (2022) [link]
  • Levi, N.: Numerical integration of ODEs with automatic differentiation (2021) [link]
  • Matei, A.: Type Theory and its Homotopical Interpretation (2025) [link]
  • Pim J.: On Yoshida's Method For Constructing Explicit Symplectic Integrators For Separable Hamiltonian Systems (2019) [link]
  • de Pooter, B.: Geodesic Flow of the Modular Surface and Continued Fractions (2019) [link]
  • de Ridder, L.: The Ricci flow on two-dimensional almost-Riemannian manifolds (2021) [link]
  • Schipper, F.: A mathematical study of crochet (2022) [link]
  • Voronine, F.: Aubry-Mather Theory through Optimal Transportation (2023) [link]
  • Xu, H.: The development and proof of Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem (2022) [link]
  • Zanuttini, A.: An application of the Knauf criteria to determine the existence of abrupt bifurcations to chaos in planar scattering systems (2021) [link]
Master Projects
  • Koster, O.: An exploration of sub-Riemannian orbifolds (2023) [link]
  • Krijgsheld, H.: A possible application of Nijenhuis geometry to geodesically equivalent sub-Riemannian metrics (2024) [link]
  • Silvans A.: Complex Dynamics of Magnetic Billiards in a 2-Torus (2023) [link]
Double Degree, Physics, Computer Science
Bachelor Projects
  • Anyszka W.: The Kepler Problem and Its Relation to Extremal Black Holes (2023) [link]
  • Aranda Bassegoda C.: Design of continuous envelope surfaces with cylindrical tools [mathematics and computer science] (2024) [link]
  • Boutros D.: Mathematical aspects of the Feynman path integral (2020) [link]
  • Desojo Garcia, I.: Using persistent homology to look at the topological properties of the Voronoi Clustering Model (2025) [link]
  • Elsinga B.: An Investigation of the Scarring Phenomenon in the original and first-order PN-corrected Kepler System. (2024) [link]
  • Ercetin U.: Computing CMB Anisotropies in Compact Hyperbolic Universes (2024) [link]
  • Gentile Japiassu, I.: Fano resonances within dark states: two perspectives on coherent population trapping (2020) [link]
  • Gerner, R: Isotropic Gauges in the Relativistic Kepler Problem [link]
  • Karwowska, H.: Post-Newtonian Corrections to the Kepler Problem [physics] (2025) [link]
  • Loedeman J.: The Geometry of Attractors in Inflationary Cosmology (2019) [link]
  • Rodenburg, R.: Black Hole Inspirals and the Role of Isotropic Scattering (2022) [link]
  • Rotariu, V.: Bohmian insights into mathematical scattering theory (2021) [link]
  • Szewczyk, F.: Contact Hamiltonian Neural Networks: Learning dissipative physical systems using inductive biases [mathematics and computer science] (2024) [link]
  • Tollington, E.: A gauge theory of shallow water (2023) [link]
  • van Voorbergen, R.: On the extension of Lie algebras using double extensions and Lie algebra expansions (2019) [link]
  • van Wijk, R.: Dynamical Similarities on FLRW Cosmology (2023) [link]
  • Yasaka, K.: Spectral almost-Riemannian geometry and the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect (2020) [link]
Master Projects
  • Couperus, T.: Towards Surface Design by Envelopes [computer science] (2025)
  • Kluitenberg, M.: Chaotic scattering in relativistic N-center problems (2021) [link]
  • Bruinse, T.: Cosmic Flows – a Ricci Flow Exploration of the Cosmic Web [astrophysics] (2025) [link]

Past teaching

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2024/2025

  • Hamiltonian Mechanics (master) - period 1a (Lecture Notes and more)
  • Analysis - period 1b
  • Analysis on Manifolds - period 1b (Lecture Notes)
  • Research seminar (DSGMP and Algebra) - periods 1a-1b
2023/2024
  • Spectral Theory (master) - period 1b
  • Analysis on Manifolds - period 1b (Lecture Notes)
  • Student colloquium - period 2b
2022/2023

2021/2022
2020/2021
2019/2020
  • Calculus for Chemistry - period 1a
    Partial differential equations (with A. Waters) - period 1a - (Simulations)
  • Hamiltonian Mechanics (master) - period 2a (Lecture Notes)
2018/2019
  • Linear algebra and multivariable calculus for Chemistry (with P. Kilicer) - period 1b
  • Partial differential equations (with A. Waters) - period 1b
  • Geometry - period 2b
Previous years, excluding the PhD

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