Group Members

Lead by Sebastian Pokutta, IOL brings together talented researchers and students across mathematics, computer science, engineering, and physics. The lab hosts numerous visitors and long-term fellows and guests, and is always seeking motivated individuals to join.

Researchers

Sebastian Pokutta
professor at TUB
vice president at ZIB
pokutta (at) zib.de
pokutta.com

Christoph Spiegel
dep. department head at ZIB
postdoc researcher at ZIB
spiegel (at) zib.de
christophspiegel.berlin

Mathieu Besançon
postdoc researcher at ZIB
besancon (at) zib.de
matbesancon.xyz

Ksenia Bestuzheva
postdoc researcher at ZIB
bestuzheva (at) zib.de
kbestuzheva.github.io

Suresh Bolusani
researcher at ZIB
bolusani (at) zib.de

Gábor Braun
postdoc researcher at ZIB
braun (at) zib.de
renyi.hu/~braung/

Sébastien Designolle
postdoc researcher at ZIB
designolle (at) zib.de
sebastiendesignolle.github.io/academic-website/

Patrick Gelß
postdoc researcher at ZIB
gelss (at) zib.de
patrickgelss.com

Gabriele Iommazzo
postdoc researcher at ZIB
iommazzo (at) zib.de

Julian Manns
researcher at ZIB
manns (at) zib.de

David Martínez-Rubio
postdoc researcher at ZIB
martinez-rubio (at) zib.de
damaru2.github.io

Sai Ganesh Nagarajan
postdoc researcher at ZIB
nagarajan (at) zib.de
sites.google.com/view/sgnagarajan/home

Kartikey Sharma
postdoc researcher at ZIB
kartikey.sharma (at) zib.de
kartikeyrinwa.github.io

Steven-Marian Stengl
researcher at TUB
stengl (at) math.tu-berlin.de

Zev Woodstock
postdoc researcher at ZIB
woodstock (at) zib.de
zevwoodstock.github.io

fellows, guests, and visitors

Doctoral candidates

Antonia Chmiela
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
chmiela (at) zib.de

Leon Eifler
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
eifler (at) zib.de

Mohammed Ghannam
researcher at HTW
doctoral candidate at HTW
mohammed.ghannam (at) htw-berlin.de

Christoph Graczyk
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
graczyk (at) zib.de

Jannis Halbey
researcher at TUB
doctoral candidate at TUB
halbey (at) zib.de

Deborah Hendrych
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
hendrych (at) zib.de

Alexander Hoen
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
hoen (at) zib.de

Yves Etienne Jäckle
research assistant at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
yvej99 (at) zedat.fu-berlin.de

Aldo Kiem
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
kiem (at) zib.de

Sebastian Knebel
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
knebel (at) zib.de

Gioni Mexi
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
mexi (at) zib.de

Konrad Mundinger
researcher at TUB
doctoral candidate at TUB
mundinger (at) zib.de

Felix Prause
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
prause (at) zib.de

Christophe Roux
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
roux (at) zib.de
christopheroux.de

Shpresim Sadiku
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
sadiku (at) zib.de
shpresimsadiku.com

Zarin Shakibaei
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
shakibaei (at) zib.de

Arwed Steuer
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
steuer (at) zib.de

Berkant Turan
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
turan (at) zib.de
b-turan.github.io

Elias Wirth
researcher at TUB
doctoral candidate at TUB
wirth (at) zib.de
wirthelias.com

Max Zimmer
researcher at ZIB
doctoral candidate at TUB
zimmer (at) zib.de
maxzimmer.org

Research assistants

Megi Andoni
research assistant at ZIB
graduate student at TUB

Thomas Bake
research assistant at ZIB
bake (at) zib.de

Kartikeya Chitranshi
research assistant at ZIB
chitranshi (at) zib.de

Fabian Frickenstein
research assistant at ZIB
frickenstein (at) zib.de

Surya Iyer
research assistant at ZIB
graduate student at TUB
iyer (at) zib.de

Garam Kim
research assistant at ZIB
graduate student at TUB
garam (at) zib.de

Dominik Kuzinowicz
research assistant at ZIB
undergrad. student at TUB

Adnan Mahmud
visiting res. assistant at ZIB
mahmud (at) zib.de

Ingo Meise
research assistant at ZIB
meise (at) zib.de

Matea Miskovic
research assistant at ZIB
graduate student at TUB
miskovic (at) zib.de

Nico Pelleriti
research assistant at ZIB
undergrad. student at TUB

Hannah Troppens
research assistant at ZIB
graduate student at FUB
troppens (at) zib.de

Daniel Viladrich
research assistant at ZIB
viladrich (at) zib.de

Moritz Wagner
research assistant at ZIB
graduate student at TUB
wagner (at) zib.de

Alumni

Former researchers

• Franziska Schlösser (2022)
• Francisco (Paco) Criado (2021–2022)
• Stephan Wäldchen (2021–2022)
• Alejandro Carderera (2018–2021)
• Max-Georg Schorr (2020–2021)
• Cyrille Combettes (2018–2021)
• Thomas Kerdreux (2020–2021)
• Alfredo Torrico Palacios (2015–2019)
• Jeff Pavelka (2013–2017)
• Aurko Roy (2013–2017)
• Daniel Zink (2013–2017)
• Arefin Huq (2012–2016)
• Cristóbal Guzmán (2012–2015)

Former research assistants

• Jan Krüger (2021–2023)
• Florian Polster-Prieto (2023)
• Kashish Goel (2023)
• Vidushi Maheshwari (2023)
• Utkarsh Sharma (2023)
• Tript Sudhakar (2023)
• Anant Talasikar (2021–2023)
• Maria Bulychev (2021–2023)
• Herman Appelgren (2022–2023)
• Jonathan Geuter (2021–2022)
• Elias Schecke (2021–2022)
• Felix Huber (2020–2022)
• Erik Tadewaldt (2022)
• Sergi Andreu (2020–2021)
• Minh Pham (2020–2021)
• Margot Cosson (2021)
• Matthieu Plotton (2021)

Administrative Support

Beate Nießen is helping us at TU Berlin and Heike Balluneit, Carola Kögler, Alisa Shulgina, and Sybille Mattrisch are helping us at ZIB with administration.