Members
Members are listed in chronological order of joining the lab.

Bastian Rieck
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
- GitHub
- Pseudomanifold
- ORCID
- 0000-0003-4335-0302
- @Pseudomanifold
- Web
- https://bastian.rieck.me
When it comes to machine learning, Bastian is interested in
all things geometrical and topological, with a particularly
strong focus on biomedical applications.

Julius von Rohrscheidt
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student
- @JRohrscheidt
- Web
- https://rohrscheidt.com
Julius is particularly interested in the development and investigation of
robust topological representation learning procedures.
This includes the construction of new feature extraction algorithms,
as well as the investigation of limitations and performance of these techniques.

Jeremy Wayland
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student
- GitHub
- jeremy-wayland
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-8766-8737
- @jeremy_wayland
- Web
- https://jeremy-wayland.me
Jeremy is interested developing practical and usable topology-based methods for improving our
understanding of various generative models. Additionally,
he enjoys applying topological methods in collaborative projects that focus on predictive medicine and/or climate change.

Katharina Limbeck
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student
- GitHub
- LimbeckKat
- @LimbeckKat
- Web
- https://limbeckkat.github.io/
Katharina is interested in using and developing topological machine learning methods
to analyse complex structures in biomedical data, in particular single cell data.

Ernst Röell
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student
Ernst is interested in building scalable topological
descriptors that can be used as machine learning layers.
Furthermore, he is interested in the application of abstract algebra and
sheaves to understand data structures and machine learning
algorithms.

Salome Kazeminia
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student
- @KazeminiaSalome
Salome is interested in unsupervised, self-supervised, and weakly supervised deep models,
focusing on trustworthy representation and manifold learning to advance AI in health applications.


Rayna Andreeva
Visiting Researcher
Visiting Researcher
- ORCID
- 0000-0001-7497-624X
- @randreeva1
- Web
- https://rorondre.github.io/

Franz Srambical
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
- GitHub
- emergenz
- @lemergenz
- Web
- https://srambical.fr
Franz is interested in leveraging known
topological/physical constraints to solve problems in the natural
sciences, including – but not limited to – the realm of drug
discovery. He is also interested in representation learning for EEG data.

Niklas Hellmer
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Niklas is a third year PhD student visiting from the Dioscuri Centre in
TDA (Warsaw). He is interested in applied topology with a focus on
interactions with statistics and signal processing.

Pragya Singh
M.Sc. Student
M.Sc. Student
- GitHub
- pragyasingh7
Pragya is an incoming MSc student at Imperial College London. She
is interested in geometrical and topological machine learnng, especially
its application in natural sciences.

Pia Baronetzky
M.Sc. Student
M.Sc. Student
- GitHub
- peppey
Pia is a Mathematics master student at TUM. She is interested in Machine
Learning und Topological Data Analysis, and in how Data Science can be
applied to solve meaningful problems.
Collaborators
![]() Adrien Aumon |
![]() Davide Buffelli |
![]() Corinna Coupette |
![]() Sebastian Dalleiger |
![]() Leon Hetzel |
![]() Alexandros Keros |
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Alumni & Alumnae
- Marek Cerny (now a Ph.D. student with Floris Geerts at the University of Antwerp)
- Ferdinand Hölzl (now a master’s student at University of Hamburg)
- Barış Onarıcı
- Tejas Srinivasan
- Kalyan Varma Nadimpalli (now a research assistant at IIT Madras)