Tom De Medts @ Ghent University

Current Ph.D. students

• Ben Stoffels  
  Ph.D. fellow on BOF research project (Ghent University, Belgium), will start in September 2026.

• Joachim Slembrouck  
  Assistant for department WE02, since September 2025.

• Louis Olyslager  
  Ph.D. fellow for the FWO (Science Foundation of Flanders, Belgium), since November 2024.

• Michiel Smet   (co-supervised by Hendrik De Bie and Sigiswald Barbier)
  Assistant for department EA06, since October 2021.

Past Ph.D. students

• Inga Valentiner-Branth, "High-dimensional expanders from Kac–Moody–Steinberg groups",
  defended in June 2026.   [Download thesis]

• Jari Desmet, "Non-associative aspects of algebraic groups",
  defended in May 2025.   [Download thesis]

• Harshit Motwani, "Algebra-geometric algorithms for program synthesis, tensor networks, and conditional independence models",
  defended in September 2023.   [Download thesis]

• Simon Rigby, "Cohomological invariants of structurable algebras",
  defended in September 2022.   [Download thesis]

• Jeroen Meulewaeter, "Bridging exceptional geometries and algebras using inner ideals of Lie algebras",
  defended in December 2021.   [Download thesis]

• Jens Bossaert, "Expanding the universe of (restricted) universal groups over right-angled buildings",
  defended in October 2021.   [Download thesis]

• Michiel Van Couwenberghe, "Decomposition algebras and axial algebras",
  defended in September 2020.   [Download thesis]

• Karsten Naert, "The hunt for mixed octonion algebras",
  defended in October 2017.   [Download thesis]

• Ana Filipa Costa da Silva, "Universal groups for right-angled buildings",
  defended in September 2017.   [Download thesis]

• Erik Rijcken, "Local Moufang sets",
  defended in June 2017.   [Download thesis]

• Elizabeth Callens, "Moufang sets: polarities, mixed Moufang sets and inclusions",
  defended in June 2013.   [Download thesis]

• Simon Huggenberger, "Point-line spaces related to Jordan pairs",
  defended in June 2009.   [Download thesis]

• Fabienne Haot, "On Moufang sets and applications" (as co-supervisor),
  defended in December 2006.   [Download thesis]

Current master's students

• (none)

Past master's students

• Lennert De Baecke, "The Geometry and Topology of Artin Groups" (2025).   [Download thesis]

• Milan Morreel, "Geamalgameerde producten en HNN-extensies" (2025).   [Download thesis]

• Joachim Slembrouck, "Semisimplification and Non-Associative Algebras in the Verlinde Category" (2025).   [Download thesis]

• Louis Olyslager, "Affine vertex algebras: The connection with Chayet–Garibaldi algebras" (2024).   [Download thesis]

• Arjen Dujardin, "Eenheden van integrale groepringen" (2023).   [Download thesis]

• Jari Desmet, "Non-associative algebras for exceptional groups" (2021).   [Download thesis]

• Michiel Smet, "A Hopf algebraic approach to TKK Lie algebras" (2021).   [Download thesis]

• Mathias Stout, "Modular representation theory and applications to decomposition algebras" (2021).   [Download thesis]

• William Hautekiet, "Automorfismengroepen van transcendente velduitbreidingen" (2019).   [Download thesis]

• Kwinten Verbruggen, "Permanenten: een link tussen verleden, heden en toekomst door stellingen, vermoedens en secundair onderwijs" (2018).   [Download thesis]

• Jens Bossaert, "De Dehnfunctie van SL(n ,Z) en diens actie op de symmetrische ruimte SL(n ,R)/SO(n ,R)" (2017).   [Download thesis]

• Jeroen Meulewaeter, "Constructies van incidentiemeetkundes, gebruik makend van representaties van lineaire algebraïsche groepen" (2017).   [Download thesis]

• Michiel Van Couwenberghe, "Axiale algebra's" (2016).   [Download thesis]

• Erik Rijcken, "Congruentiedeelgroepen in SL_n(Z)" (2013).   [Download thesis]

• Kristof Vanderhoydonck, "Branch groups" (2011).   [Download thesis]

• Karsten Naert, "Presentaties van Eindige Enkelvoudige Groepen" (2011).   [Download thesis]

• Wim Vanrie, "Jordan paren en twin SPO ruimtes" (2011).   [Download thesis]

• Peter Vandendriessche, "Deelgroepentralies van groepen" (2010).   [Download thesis]

• Elizabeth Callens, "Lineaire algebraïsche groepen van type G₂" (2009).

• Mikaël Tack, "Inleiding op de theorie van rang 1 groepen en speciale rang 1 groepen" (2006).