Research group
Postdocs
PhD students
- Anouk Eggink (started September 2024)
Daily supervisor
- Hsin-Yi Yang (started September 2023)
Daily supervisor
- Mar Curcó Iranzo (graduated April 2024)
Daily supervisor
For other members of the Rational Points consortium, please consult the consortium website.

From left to right: Soumya Sankar, Leonie Scherer, Hsin-Yi Yang, Mar Curcó Iranzo, Dusan Dragutinovic, myself.
Master's students
- René Bruin (co-supervision with Marta Pieropan, started September 2024)
- Mashal Mehr (graduated June 2024)
Thesis title: Arbitrarily large torsion in Tate-Shafarevich groups
- Mees Jager (graduated July 2023)
Thesis title: The inverse Galois problem with prescribed ramification
- Anne Wouda (graduated June 2022)
Thesis title: Supersingular isogeny graphs and orientations in cryptography
- Joost Mein (graduated June 2022)
Thesis title: Entanglement of Galois representations on elliptic curves over Q
- Evie Roebroek (graduated April 2021)
Thesis title: Using class field theory to find function fields with many rational places
Bachelor's students
- Maurits Beelen (started February 2025)
- Tim Visser (co-supervision with Dirk Schuricht, started February 2025)
- Jonna van Liempt (co-supervision with Rogier Bos and Dirk Schuricht, graduated January 2025)
- Tom Sinke (graduated June 2024)
Thesis title: Het vermoeden van Malle en kransproducten van symmetrische groepen
(Malle's conjecture and wreath products of symmetric groups)
- Javier San Martín (graduated June 2024)
Thesis title: Arboreal representations and a Markov model for factorisation of PCF polynomials
- Ludo van Wieringen (co-supervision with Dirk Schuricht, graduated June 2023)
Thesis title: Spin and the representation theory of rotations
- Marlies Hoeksema (graduated June 2022)
Thesis title: Permutation rational functions over finite fields
- Wijnand van Essen (graduated June 2022)
Thesis title: Gauss factorials of polynomials over finite fields
- Ruben Vink (co-supervision with Marieke van der Wegen, graduated June 2021)
Thesis title: Chip-firing games on graphs
- Emilin van Ruiten (graduated January 2021)
Thesis title: A cryptosystem based on algebraic surfaces
- Fabienne Waanders (graduated January 2021)
Thesis title: Het gebruik van elliptische krommen bij het zetten van een digitale handtekening
(Using elliptic curves for digital signatures)
- Niels van Ee (co-supervision with Damaris Schindler, graduated June 2020)
Thesis title: Upper bounds for progression-free sets
- Emi Weel (co-supervision with Damaris Schindler, graduated June 2020)
Thesis title: Bounds on Diophantine tuples with polynomials