Teaching in Würzburg

I am available to supervise bachelor and master theses in mathematics. If you like areas around differential geometry, global analysis, topology and mathematical physics, feel free to contact me or drop to my office, and we will find together a topic that fits your background and interests!

I have so far supervised the following bachelor theses in Würzburg:

🧑‍🎓 Apr - Jul 2025: Björn Gerer (title: "Classification of low-dimensional topological manifolds")

🧑‍🎓 Apr - Jul 2024: Finn Meyer-Clasen (title: "Singular homology and applications in Geometry, Topology, and Analysis")

Since the academic year 2023/2024 my postdoc position includes a teaching duty of 5 SWS (i.e. 5 hours in the classrom per week each semester - corresponding to about 150 hours per year). This included full responsibilities (i.e. lectures and exercise sessions) of the following courses:

🧑🏽‍🏫 Apr - Jul 2025: Geometric Mechanics (master course on hamiltonian mechanics and symplectic geometry), 60+30 hours

🧑🏽‍🏫 Oct 2024 - Feb 2025: Einführung in die Topologie (2nd/3rd year bachelor course on general topology), 45+15 hours

🧑🏽‍🏫 Apr - Jul 2024: Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Differential Geometry (master course on Poisson geometry and Lie groupoids), 60 hours

🧑🏽‍🏫 Oct 2023 - Feb 2024: Einführung in die Topologie (2nd/3rd year bachelor course on general topology), 45+15 hours

🧑🏽‍🏫 Oct 2023 - Feb 2024: Seminar Lineare Algebra (2nd/3rd year bachelor course on matrix Lie groups and Lie algebras), 30 hours

I selected the topics and wrote lecture notes of my own for all those courses. I taught the bachelor courses in German and the master courses in English.

During Oct 2021 - Sept 2023 I did not have any official teaching duties in Würzburg since my position was financed by a DFG research grant and not by the mathematics department. Nevertheless, I was part of the committee (as Beisitzer) of several oral exams in various master courses (Lie groups, Differential geometry, Analysis and Geometry of classical Systems, Algebraic Topology).

I have been awarded in May 2024 the advanced level of the Certificate for teaching in higher education offered by the Bayern Universities, after attending several practical workshops which refined my teaching skills in various aspects (including designing exams, giving lectures, supervising theses, intercultural competences for lecturers, voice training, gamification in didactics, etc.)