Ph.D. Students
Daniel Harvey, Ph.D. 2014, On Treewidth and Graph Minors
Michael Payne, Ph.D. 2014, Combinatorial geometry of point sets with collinearities.
Lecturer at La Trobe University, Bendigo.
Bin Jia, Ph.D. 2015, Link graphs.
Mathematical Research Pty Ltd.
Kevin Hendrey, Ph.D. 2019, Extremal Graph Theory for Minors, Improper Colourings and Gonality.
Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Thesis Excellence.
Post-doctoral researcher at DIMAG.
Tim Wilson, Ph.D. 2019, Anagram-Free Graph Colouring and Colour Schemes.
School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne Uni.
Hooman Reisi Dehkordi, Ph.D. 2020, The Hanani-Tutte Theorem and Non-Separating Planar Graphs (main supervisor: Graham Farr)
Timothy Chan, Ph.D. 2021 Substructure Densities in Extremal Combinatorics (jointly supervised with Daniel Kral).
Robert Hickingbotham, Exploring Sparse and Hereditary Graph Classes via Products and Tree-Decompositions, Ph.D. in progress.
Marc Distel, Problems at the intersection of graph theory and metric geometry, Ph.D. in progress.
Nikolai Karol, Problems in structural graph theory, Ph.D. in progress.
M.Sc. Students
Jessica McClintock, M.Sc. 2012, Extremal Graph Theory for Book-Embeddings.
Completed PhD at Melbourne University, now software engineer at Google.
Kevin Fray, M.Sc. 2013, Polynomial Methods in Combinatorial Geometry.
Honours Students
Eric Luu, Graph structure theory, 2024
Jofre Costa, Hadwiger's Conjecture, 2023–24 (visiting from UPC, Barcelona)
Robert Hickingbotham, Graph minors and tree decompositions, 2019
Honours Pure Mathematics prize
Tarik Pecaninovic, Complete graph minors in strong products, 2019
Jackson Goerner, Extension complexity and integer linear programming, 2020 (main supervisor: Tony Huynh)
Marc Distel, Asymptotic Dimension: Structural Graph Theory meets Metric Geometry, 2021
Carl Moppert prize in Mathematics (for the best all-round honours student)
Prospective students
If you are interested in me supervising your Ph.D. studies, then read "How to choose a good supervisor" and read my "School postgraduate entry guidelines", then send me an email including:
- your full CV and official academic transcripts,
- a copy of any theses or research papers written,
- a detailed statement of why you want me to be your supervisor, focusing on specific research interests in common, and
- a statement about how you will pay the university fees, and in particular, whether you will need a scholarship.
If you have publications in any of the journals listed here, then it is unlikely I will consider supervising you. I do not have funds to support interns or visiting undergraduate students, so do not expect a reply to such requests.