Postdoctoral researchers
- Laura Casabella
(1/2026–,Compartmentalized structures @ Combinatorial Synergies)
- Matthieu Piquerez
(1–6/2025)
- Spencer Backman
(5–12/2017, DGD)
- Arnau Padrol
(1/2013–9/2015, DGD, Project A3)
Doctoral students
- Aenne Benjes
- Florian Rieg (COMPOTE, DFG 541393733, since 7/2025)
- Jan Stricker (Simpliciality in Arrangements and Matroids, DFG 539866293, since 9/2024)
- Sebastian Manecke
On the discrete geometry of generalized angles and inscribability
Thesis
(6/2024)
- Tobias Friedl
Double posets and real invariant varieties
Thesis
(5/2017)
- Francesco Grande (MDS scholarship)
On k-level matroids: geometry and combinatorics
Thesis
(10/2015)
- Katharina Jochemko (Hilda Geiringer Scholarship, BMS)
On the combinatorics of valuations
Thesis
(12/2014)
Master’s theses
- Jan Stricker
Compressed polytopes and posets
(8/2024)
- Hannah Doyal
Nestohedra of union-closed building sets
(7/2024)
- Elias Drohla
Minkowski duality and generalized permutahedra
(2/2024)
- Adel Alomar
Symmetry of generalized Ehrhart quasi-polynomials
(12/2023)
- Niklas Lütjeharms
Geometrie und Kombinatorik von Max-Slope-Pivotpolytopen
(4/2022)
- Dominik Sorg
Konvexe Ecken, Spiegelungsgruppen und das Mahler-Volumen
(2/2021)
- Aenne Benjes
On the Geometric Combinatorics of Steiner Points and a Conjecture of Grünbaum
(10/2020)
- Johanna Krist
Kanonische Monotone-Pfade-Polytope von Polymatroiden
(6/2019)
- Florian Sadowski
The extension property for general and lattice polytopes
(5/2017)
- Martin Karl (co-advised with Cordian Riener)
On polynomial representation of derivative cones
(1/2017)
- Giulia Codenotti
Kruskal-Katona and Macaulay theorems in a relative setting
(2/2016)
- Tom Chappell
Twisted Prisms of Order Polytopes
(12/2015)
- Paul Burghoff
Lower bounds on the rectangle covering number of hypersimplices
(7/2015)
- Christina Schulz
A Discrete Moment Problem on Lattice Polytopes
(5/2015)
- Leif Nauendorf
Schur-Horn orbitopes and zonoids
(1/2015)
- Christoph Peters
The Minkowski Theorem for Convex Caps and Discrete Optimal Transport
(12/2014)
- Thomas Stollin
The Brunn-Minkowski Inequality for Zonotopes
(12/2014)
- Philip Brinkmann
Minkowski Sums of Triangles and Colourful Configurations
(9/2013)
- Laura Gellert
On Degree Sequences of Bidirected Graphs
(9/2013)
Bachelor’s theses
- Emilia Gardewischke (co-advised with Kord Eickmeyer)
Bounds on twin-width of random graphs
(9/2023)
- Cornelius Nabavi
Irrwege und Eulersche Zahlen
(9/2023)
- Laura Kossytorz (co-advised with Benjamin Schröter)
Multi-Splits of Point Configurations in the Plane
(9/2023)
- Eugen Cernomazov (co-advised with Benjamin Schröter)
Zu Basis-Austauschgraphen von induzierten Fahnenmatroiden
(3/2023)
- Jan Stricker
Über die Geometrie und Kombinatorik von 2-level Polytopen
(10/2022)
- Jakob Dany
Verallgemeinerte Bipermutaeder
(10/2022)
- Elias Drohla
Parking-Functions, Schattenvektoren und Catalan-Zahlen
(5/2020)
- Bilal Sheikh
Über Verallgemeinerungen des Colorful Carathéodory Theorems
(7/2018)
- Aenne Benjes
A characterization of the facets of incompatible double order polytopes
(1/2018)
- Svenja Horn
Lovasz' Theta number and sums-of-squares
(8/2016)
- Verena Harbich
Determinanten und Graphen - Das Lemma von Gessel-Viennot
(7/2015)
- Katharina Mölter
Alternating-sign matrices, square ice, and the Yang-Baxter equation
(1/2014)
- Frauke Schmidt
On the lower bound theorem for convex polytopes
(10/2013)
- Kolja Junginger
Submodulare Funktionen in der Informationstheorie
(8/2012)
Research mentoring
- Germain Poullot
Research mentoring during a Frankfurt internship.
(May–6/2022)
- Alexander E. Black
Research hosting and mentoring: Frankfurt, September–October 2021; FU Berlin, November–December 2022.
(2021; 2022)