Doctoral Students

  • Meet the COGENT Doctoral Candidates!
    The COGENT 13 doctoral students are now well settled in their home institutions. The first Winter School, which took place in Galway from 1st to 12th December 2025, was a great opportunity for…
  • Training materials from the Galway Winter School
    The training materials from the COGENT Winter School are available on the Research & Training section of the COGENT website. More content, such as additional videos of lectures, will be added to…
  • COGENT Winter School, December 1-12 2025 - University of Galway, Ireland
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        The first COGENT Winter School will be held in December in Galway, Ireland. The COGENT Winter School consists of two weeks of on-site learning in Galway, Ireland, followed by an…
  • All COGENT positions have been filled
      The COGENT application process has ended. All 13 PhD positions within the COGENT network have now been filled.  The recruitment committee and all the COGENT researchers would like to…
  • Research goals
    The COGENT project aims to tackle a range of scientific challenges including: Obtaining full explicit information on the cohomology of several families of arithmetic groups. Circumventing the…
Alexander Collins Alexander Collins Integral cohomology of finite p-groups (DC1) Technische Universität Braunschweig
Giulia Orru Giulia Orrù Constructing equivariant CW-complexes for arithmetic (and related) groups (DC2) University of Galway
Nicola Falciola Nicola Falciola Formal verification of theory and algorithmic output for modular forms (DC3) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Fotios Provatas Fotios Provatas Effective algorithms for space groups (DC4) Technische Universität Braunschweig
Sarah El Boustany Sarah El Boustany Homological perturbation theory for Hochschild cohomology and applications (DC5) University of Galway
Alexander Wiesner Alexander Wiesner Algorithms for Polycyclic groups associated to number fields and cryptographic applications (DC6) Université de Bordeaux
Frederik Wunden Frederik Wunden Constructive contractibility of CW-complexes associated to arithmetic groups and applications to Hecke operators (DC7) University of Galway
Alejandro De La Torre Duran Alejandro de la Torre Duran Advanced computing and heuristics for higher dimensional Voronoi complexes and applications (DC8) Université Grenoble Alpes
Gabriel Jalil Gabriel Jalil Computing isometries and automorphisms of lattices: Classical vs Quantum Computing and Applications (DC9) Université Grenoble Alpes
Tao Huang Tao Huang Twisted characteristic classes, symplectic groups and Hermitian K-theory of number fields (DC10) Université Grenoble Alpes
Hoa Zhang Hao Zhang Cohomology of SL2 over the Hamiltonians (DC11) University of Sheffield
Saheb Mohapatra Saheb Mohapatra Cryptographic Applications of Motivic Cohomology Groups (DC12) University of Durham
Narges Shavali Koshor Narges Shavali Kohshor Torsion elements in higher K-groups (DC13) University of Durham