People

Staff

  • prof. dr. Frank Takes (group head)
  • dr. Akrati Saxena (assistant professor)
  • dr. Estzer Bokanyi (postdoc)
  • Rachel de Jong MSc (postdoc)
  • Postdoc Vacancy expected Fall 2026 (NWO Macroscope project)
  • dr. Sebastian Fajardo (postdoc @MAPSHA)
  • dr. Sina Mohammadi (postdoc @MAPSHA)
  • PhD Candidate Vacancy expected Fall 2026 (NWO Macroscope project)
  • Jomana Abdelrahman (PhD candidate @UvA)
  • Gamal Adel Elgamal MSc (PhD candidate)
  • Fabrizio Corriera MSc (PhD candidate)
  • Nanseline Daal MSc (PhD candidate, also @AML group)
  • Irina Epure MSc (researcher @LIACS)
  • Arda Ergin (PhD candidate @UvA)
  • Ella Has MSc (PhD candidate)
  • Yuliia Kazmina MSc (PhD candidate @UvA)
  • dr. Mark van der Loo (affiliated research fellow @Eurostat)

Students

  • Joris Alkema (master student)
  • Renske van Gulijk (master student)
  • Bart Holterman (master student)
  • Virginia Samez (master student)

Group photos

2026. Rachel, Bart, Katherine, Ella, Fabrizio, Frank, Akrati, Gina, Arda, Sina, Gamal, Jomana, Sebastian. Missing: Eszter, Yuliia

2024. Alberto, Hanjo, Sebastian, Emilia, Dominika, Tomke, Eszter, Yuliia, Rachel, Elze, Frank. Missing: Akrati

2022. Maxwell, Yuliia, Eszter, Frank, Gerrit-Jan, Rachel, Hanjo (online), Carolina, Dominika. Missing: Antonio

2019. Mohamed, Mona, Hanjo, Gerrit-Jan, Frank, Martijn, Antonio, Simon, Dennis

Former members

  • Katherine Hamilton MSc (pre-PhD researcher, 2025-2026, now at University of Cambridge)
  • Maarten Hoeneveld MSc (guest researcher from Mathematical Institute, 2025-2026)
  • dr. Hanjo Boekhout (PhD candidate, 2020-2025, now at Statistics Netherlands)
  • dr. Alberto Ceria (postdoc, 2024-2025, now postdoc at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
  • dr. Dominika Czerniawska (postdoc, 2023-2025, now assistant professor at Warsaw University, Poland)
  • dr. Shane Mannion (visiting PhD candidate, 2023, now at DTU Denmark)
  • Hanshu Yu MSc (researcher, 2023-2024, how at HZ University of Applied Sciences)
  • Márton Ményhert MSc (researcher, 2023-2024, now at Turff)
  • dr. Gerrit-Jan de Bruin (PhD candidate, 2017-2022, now at TNO)
  • dr. Carolina Mattsson (postdoc, 2020-2022, now at CENTAI in Turin, Italy)
  • dr. Antonio Barata (PhD Candidate, 2017-2022, now at Ministry of Infrastructure and Waterstate)
  • dr. Maxwell McNeil MSc (visiting PhD candidate, 2022, now at Meta)
  • dr. Quinten Meertens (PhD candidate, 2016-2021, now at Albert Heijn)
  • ir. Andre Beijen (researcher, 2019-2021, now at Kyndryl)

For a list of former BSc and MSc students, see here.