Members
The current membership of Institute for Geometry and its Applications is as follows.
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Full-time academic staff
- Director: Elder Professor Mathai Varghese FAA (Australian Laureate Fellow)
- Deputy Director: Dr David Baraglia (Senior Lecturer, Future Fellow)
- Dr Susan Barwick (Senior Lecturer)
- Emeritus Professor Michael Eastwood FAA
- Professor Finnur Larusson
- Associate Professor Thomas Leistner
- Dr Danny Stevenson (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Raymond Vozzo (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Michael Albanese (Lecturer)
- Dr Marcos Orseli (Postdoctoral Researcher)
Related media and events
The Differential Geometry Seminar meets regularly, with talks by local researchers and visitors.
The Institute for Geometry and its Applications organises international conferences and workshops.
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Adjunct and Affiliate staff
- Professor Peter Bouwknegt (MSI, ANU)
- Adjunct Associate Professor Nicholas Buchdahl
- Professor Alan Carey FAA (MSI, ANU)
- Adjunct Professor Michael K. Murray
- Professor Tim Pentilla
- Dr Wen-Ai Jackson
- Dr David Roberts
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Postgraduate students: current
- Mr Alex Marciano (Stevenson, Vozzo, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Mr Junjie Chong (Baraglia, Albanese, PhD at Adelaide)
- Mr Stefano Giannini (Larusson, Baraglia, PhD at Adelaide)
- Mr David Russell Signorelli (Eastwood, Leistner, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Mr Dylan Nicholas Holland (Leistner, Eastwood, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Miss Lee Ward (Larusson, Leistner, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Mr Harrison Greven (Leistner, Eastwood, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Mr Samuel Lloyd Groocock (Vozzo, Roberts, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Mr Paawan Nileshkumar Jethva (Baraglia, Leistner, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Mr Joshua Celeste (Varghese, Baraglia, PhD at Adelaide)
- Mr Matthew Drown (Stevenson, Vozzo, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Mx Clover Hoffman (Stevenson, Vozzo, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Mr Nicholas McLean (Murray, Hochs, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Mr Radee Tchorbadjiev (Baraglia, Buchdahl, MPhil at Adelaide)
- Mr Joshua Tomlin (Baraglia, Varghese, PhD at Adelaide)
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Recent Ph.D. completions (since 2008)
- Dr David Butler (Barwick, Casse, PhD 2008, Adelaide)
- Dr Jens Kroeske (Eastwood, Buchdahl, PhD 2008, Adelaide)
- Dr Tony Scoleri (Murray, Brooks, Chojnacki, PhD 2008, Adelaide)
- Dr Rongmin Lu (Varghese, Buchdahl, PhD 2009, Adelaide)
- Dr Raymond Vozzo (Murray, Varghese, PhD 2009, Adelaide)
- Dr David Roberts (Murray, Varghese, Stasheff, PhD 2010, Adelaide)
- Dr Daniel Marshall (Barwick, Casse, PhD 2010, Adelaide),
- Dr Richard Green (Varghese, Murray, PhD 2011, Adelaide),
- Dr James Wallbridge (Varghese, Murray, Toen, PhD 2011, Adelaide & Toulouse)
- Dr Tyson Ritter (Larusson, Buchdahl, PhD 2011, Adelaide),
- Dr Alexander Hanysz (Larusson, Buchdahl, PhD 2013, Adelaide),
- Dr David Bowman (Larusson, Buchdahl, PhD 2016, Adelaide),
- Dr Hao Guo (Varghese, Wang, PhD 2018, Adelaide) 2016 B.H. Neumann Prize winner
- Dr Zhenxi Huang (Varghese, Baraglia, PhD 2018, Adelaide)
- Dr Parsa Kavkani (Murray, Stevenson, PhD 2018, Adelaide)
- Dr Johnny Lim (Varghese, Thiang, Wang, PhD 2019, Adelaide) 2019 Elsevier Young Scientist Award
- Dr Elliot Herrington (Larusson, Leistner, PhD 2021, Adelaide)
- Dr Manasa Manjunatha (Leistner, Cortes (Hamburg), PhD 2023, Adelaide and Hamburg)
- Dr Esteban Federico Costanza (Leistner, Eastwood, PhD 2023, Adelaide)
- Dr Haripriya Sridharan (Larusson, Leistner, PhD 2025, Adelaide)
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Recent Masters completions (since 2008)
- Mr Tyson Rowe (Larusson, Baraglia, MPhil 2025 Adelaide)
- Mr James McCusker (Stevenson, Vozzo, MPhil 2024, Adelaide)
- Mr George Savvoudis (Barwick, Leistner, MPhil 2024, Adelaide)
- Mr Steven Greenwood (Leistner, Eastwood, MPhil 2024, Adelaide)
- Mr Wills Nguyen (Larusson, Baraglia, MPhil 2023, Adelaide)
- Mr Ryan Dye (Larusson, Stevenson, MPhil 2022, Adelaide)
- Mr Tyson Klingner (Baraglia, Kari Vilonen, MPhil 2023, Adelaide) Fulbright Scholarship
- Mr Liam Stoldt (Stevenson, Vozzo, MPhil 2023, Adelaide)
- Mr Ryan Dye (Larusson, Stevenson, MPhil 2022, Adelaide)
- Mr Alexander Lai De Oliveira (Larusson, Stevenson, MPhil 2022, Adelaide)
- Mr Joshua Celeste (Baraglia, Varghese, MPhil 2022, Adelaide)
- Mr Thomas Munn (Leistner, Eastwood, MPhil 2021, Adelaide)
- Mr Matthias Fresacher (Leistner, Buchdahl, Hochs, MPhil 2021, Adelaide)
- Mr Kieran O'Loughlin (Murray, Stevenson, MPhil 2021, Adelaide)
- Mr Timothy Moy (Eastwood, Leistner, MPhil 2021, Adelaide)
- Mr Stuart Teisseire (Leistner, Eastwood, MPhil 2021, Adelaide)
- Ms Haripriya Sridharan (Larusson, Leistner, MPhil 2020, Adelaide)
- Mr Benjamin Moore (Eastwood, Leistner, MPhil 2020, Adelaide) 2020 University Research Medal
- Mr David Brook (Varghese, Hochs, MPhil 2020, Adelaide)
- Ms Kimberly Becker (Murray, Stevenson, MPhil 2019, Adelaide) 2019 Oxford Australia PhD Scholarship, 2019 University Research Medal
- Mr Matthew Ryan (Larusson, Murray, MPhil 2019, Adelaide)
- Mr Samuel Mills (Varghese, Hochs, MPhil 2019, Adelaide)
- Mr Daniel John (Larusson, Stevenson, MPhil 2019, Adelaide)
- Mr John McCarthy (Varghese, Baraglia, MPhil 2018, Adelaide) 2018 University Research Medal
- Mr Michael Hallam (Varghese, Baraglia, MPhil 2018, Adelaide) 2018 Elsevier Young Scientist Award, 2017 B.H. Neumann Prize winner
- Mr Parsa Kavkani (Murray, Stevenson, MPhil 2018, Adelaide)
- Mr Brett Chenoweth (Larusson, Buchdahl, MPhil 2016, Adelaide)
- Ms Kelli Francis-Staite (Murray, Leistner, MPhil 2015, Adelaide), 2015 Rhodes PhD Scholarship
- Mr Konrad Pilch (Varghese, Murray, MPhil 2014, Adelaide)
- Mr William Crawford (Larusson, Buchdahl, MPhil 2014, Adelaide) 2014 University Research Medal
- Mr Luke Francis Keating Hughes (Murray, Stevenson, MPhil 2014, Adelaide)
- Mr Ryan Mickler (Varghese, Murray, MPhil 2012, Adelaide)
- Mr Vincent Sebastian Schlegel (Murray, Hekmati, MPhil 2012, Adelaide)
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Recent alumni
- Dr Benjamin McMillan, ARC Research Associate (2019-2022) Postdoc, IBS Center for Complex Geometry (CCG) at the Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
- Dr Lachlan MacDonald ARC Research Associate (2020-2021)(Postdoc at AIML, 2021-)
- Dr Hemanth Saratchandran, ARC Research Associate (2020-2022).
- Dr Peter Hochs (Senior Lecturer 2013-2020 July) A/Professor, Radboud University, Netherlands.
- Dr Guo Chuan Thiang (DECRA 2017-2020 July) Assistant Professor, Peking University, China
- Dr Guanheng Chen (ARC Research Associate, 2017-2020 June) Assistant Professor, S.S. Yau Centre of Southeastern University (2020-2023) China
- Dr Matthias Ludewig, (Laureate Research Associate, 2018-2020 March) Postdoc, University of Regensburg, Germany
- Dr Alex Fok (ARC Research Associate, 2017-2019 March) Contract Lecturer, U. Auckland, 2019, Contract Lecturer, NYU Shanghai 2020
- Dr Pedram Hekmati (ARC DECRA Fellow, U. Adelaide, 2012-2014; Postdoc of Excellence, IMPA, Brazil, 2015-2017; Senior Lecturer, U. Auckland, 2017-)
- Dr Melissa Tacy (Lecturer, U. Adelaide, 2014-2016; Postdoc at ANU, Canberra, 2016-2017; Lecturer, U. Otago, NZ, 2017, U. Auckland, 2020)
- Dr Tuyen Truong, (ARC Research Associate, 2015-2017; Associate Professor at University of Oslo, Norway, September 2017-).
- Dr Wolfgang Globke, (ARC DECRA Fellow, U. Adelaide, 2015-2017, Postdoc at University of Vienna, Austria, 2018-2021).
- Dr Hang Wang, (ARC DECRA Fellow, U. Adelaide, 2016-2018, Professor, East China Normal University and 1000 talents fellowship).