CV Peter Hochs

Work history

• Assistant Professor in mathematics at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (since August 2020).
  
• Senior Lecturer in pure mathematics at the University of Adelaide (January 2019 - July 2020).
  
• Lecturer in pure mathematics at the University of Adelaide (July 2013 - December 2018).
  
• Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow at the University of Adelaide (March 2013 - August 2015, interrupted August - December 2013) and the Radboud University (September 2015 - August 2016). Host in Adelaide: prof. dr. Mathai Varghese; host in Nijmegen: prof. dr. Klaas Landsman.
• Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany (May 2012 - February 2013).  Hosts: prof. dr. Elmar Schrohe and prof. dr. Bernhard Krötz.
• Research Geophysicist at Shell (June 2009 - January 2012).
• Researcher in industrial safety, at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO (September 2007 - April 2009).
• Junior Researcher at the Radboud University (September 2004 - July 2007). Second phase of Ph.D. research. Advisors: prof. dr. Klaas Landsman and prof. dr. Gert Heckman.
• Ph.D. student at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (April 2003 - August 2004). First phase of Ph.D. research. Advisors: prof. dr. Klaas Landsman and prof. dr. Eric Opdam.

Education

• Ph.D. in mathematics at the Radboud University (February 2008).  Advisors: prof.  dr. Klaas Landsman and prof. dr. Gert Heckman. Thesis: `Quantisation commutes with reduction for cocompact Hamiltonian group actions'.
• M.Sc. in physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands (December 2003).
• M.Sc. in mathematics at Utrecht University (March 2003). Thesis advisor: prof. dr. Erik van den Ban. Thesis: `A Lefschetz fixed point theorem and the Weyl character formula'.

Research funding

• ENW-M project Symmetry and analytic torsion, NWO, 2022.
  
• Discovery Project (with Guo Chuan Thiang and Mathai Varghese), Australian Research Council, 2020.
  
• Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship, European Union, 2012.
• Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2011.
  

Students

Current

• Chris Pirie (Ph.D.)
  
• Aquerman Kuczmenda Yanes (Ph.D.)

Completed

• Georg Huppertz (M.Sc., 2023). Thesis: `The Universal Coefficient Theorem for C^∗-algebras with an emphasis on the extensions of C^∗-algebras'.
  
• Matthias Fresacher (M.Phil., 2021), supervised with Nick Buchdahl, Thomas Leistner and Mathai Varghese. Thesis: `Approximation of higher degree spectra results for twisted Laplace operators'.
  
• David Brook (M.Phil., 2020) supervised with Mathai Varghese. Thesis: `Higher twisted K-theory'.
  
• Sam Mills (M.Phil., 2019) supervised with Mathai Varghese. Thesis: `Geometric K-homology and the Atiyah-Singer index theorem'.
  
• André Schemaitat (M.Sc., 2016) supervised with Jens Kaad (Radboud University, University of Southern Denmark). Thesis: `Determinants by K-theory'.
• Niels Neumann (M.Sc., 2016), external research project at TNO, supervised with Erik Koelink (Radboud University) and Frank Phillipson (TNO). Thesis: `Towards faster internet connections: connecting cabinets to the fiber glass network'.