CURRENT PhD STUDENTS
Petros Mavromichalis: since Fall 2025. Expected: PhD Spring 2029.
FORMER PhD STUDENTS
Margarita Bustos-Gonzalez: Ph.D. May 2025 (Supervision Fall 2021 - Spring 2025).
Thesis: "Holomorphic differentials of alternating four covers."
First Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Nicholas Camacho: Ph.D. December 2020 (Supervision Fall 2017 - Fall 2020).
Thesis: "Holomorphic differentials of Klein four covers."
First Positions: Teaching Position at North Port High School, North Port FL, and
Adjunct Instructor at State College of Florida, Venice, FL.
Adam Wood: Ph.D. August 2020 (Supervision Fall 2017 - Summer 2020).
Thesis: "Galois structure of holomorphic polydifferentials in positive characteristic."
First Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.
Ben Margolin: Ph.D. May 2016 (Supervision Spring 2013 - Spring 2016).
Thesis: "Non-commutative deformation rings."
First Positions: Financial Representative with Northwestern Mutual and
Lecturer at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Daniel Wackwitz: Ph.D. August 2015 (Supervision Fall 2012 - Summer 2015).
Thesis: "Versal deformation rings of modules over Brauer tree algebras."
First Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Platteville, WI.
Roberto Soto: Ph.D. August 2015 (Supervision Fall 2012 - Summer 2015).
Thesis: "Universal deformation rings and semidihedral 2-groups."
First Positions: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA.
David Meyer: Ph.D. August 2015 (Supervision Spring 2010 - Summer 2015).
Thesis: "Universal deformation rings and fusion."
First Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
Shannon Talbott: Ph.D. July 2012 (Supervision Spring 2009 - Summer 2012).
Thesis: "Universal deformation rings of modules for algebras of dihedral type of polynomial growth."
First Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, OH.
José Vélez-Marulanda: Ph.D. July 2010 (Supervision Fall 2007 - Summer 2010).
Thesis: "Universal deformation rings of modules over self-injective algebras."
First Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.
Jennifer Froelich (now Schaefer): Ph.D. August 2008 (Supervision Spring 2006 - Summer 2008).
Thesis: "Universal deformation rings related to the symmetric group S5."
First Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.
Giovanna Llosent: Ph.D. July 2007 (Supervision Fall 2003 - Summer 2007).
Thesis: "Stable endomorphism rings and Ext groups of the symmetric group S4."
First Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at CSU San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA.