Tom De Medts @ Ghent University

Current Ph.D. students

• Jari Desmet  
  Ph.D. fellow for the FWO (Science Foundation of Flanders, Belgium), since November 2021.

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

• Inga Valentiner-Branth  
  Ph.D. fellow on EOS research project "High-dimensional expanders and Kac-Moody-Steinberg groups" (FWO-FNRS, Belgium), since September 2022.

Past Ph.D. students

• 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

• Louis Olyslager.

Past master's students

• 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).