Students

PhD, master and bachelor students I have advised or co-advised, with their project titles and the papers we wrote together.

PhD students

Maé Rodriguez, University of Edinburgh, 2025–present (advisor). Evaluating real-time path integrals for relativistic systems. Paper: A new recipe for caustic pancakes
Amelie Read, University of Sydney, 2025–present (advisor). The caustic skeleton of the local cosmic web. Paper: Caustic skeleton and the local cosmic web
Benjamin Hertzsch, University of Edinburgh, 2023–present (advisor). Walls, filaments and galaxy populations in the caustic skeleton. Papers: A new recipe for caustic pancakes, Galaxy populations in the IllustrisTNG caustic skeleton · Software: DiscreteNaturalNeighbors.jl
Joshua Jones, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2022–present (co-advisor). Real-time path integrals. Paper: Efficient evaluation of real-time path integrals

Anne Weber, University College London, 2023–2026 (co-advisor). Complex trajectories in laser ionization and recombination experiments. Paper: A universal approach to saddle-point methods in attosecond science
Johanna Borissova, Perimeter Institute, 2023–2025 (co-advisor). Lorentzian wormholes.
Ariadna Metidieri, Radboud University, 2023–2025 (co-advisor). Lensing of rotating stars and photons in wave optics. Paper: Wave optics for rotating stars
Leigh Preimesberger, Carnegie Mellon University, 2024–2025 (co-advisor). Machine learning inference of the cosmic web.
Georg Wilding, University of Groningen, 2020–2022 (co-advisor). Topology of the two-dimensional cosmic web. Paper: Persistent homology of the cosmic web
Varun Rustagi, University of Groningen, 2020–2021 (co-advisor). The caustic skeleton of the local universe.

Guilherme Garcia, University of Copenhagen, 2026–present (ongoing collaboration). Previously his MPhys project at the University of Edinburgh, 2025–2026 (advisor): Constrained non-Gaussian fields.
Joanna Chan, Singapore, 2026–present (ongoing collaboration, as an independent scientist). Properties of the caustic skeleton in scale space. Previously her master’s project at the University of Edinburgh, 2025–2026 (advisor).
Maé Rodriguez, University of Edinburgh, 2024 (advisor). Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling of primordial caustic constraints.
Vera Li, University of Edinburgh, 2023 (advisor). The caustic skeleton and redshift space distortions.
Yihan Yan, University of Waterloo, 2022–2023 (advisor). Statistics of critical points in eigenvalue fields. Paper: Statistics of tidal and deformation eigenvalue fields
Kevin Bixerman, University of Groningen, 2018–2022 (co-advisor). The caustic skeleton of the local universe.

Guilherme Garcia, University of Edinburgh, 2024–2025 (advisor). The cosmic web (Senior Honours project).
Yonatan Sklansky, University of Pennsylvania, 2022–2023 (co-advisor). Topology of multi-stream regions in N-body simulations.
Yihan Yan, University of Waterloo, 2021–2022 (advisor). Homology of two- and three-dimensional Gaussian random fields.