Members of the group (by alphabetical order)

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Years	Name	Position	Subjects
2020-	Ahmed Ashem Abouelsaad	PhD Student	periodic rational points of endomorphisms of the line
2010-	Jérémy Blanc	Associate professor	Cremona groups, birational geometry, affine algebraic geometry, real algebraic geometry
2020-	Anna Bot	PhD Student	Real forms, Automorphisms of rational surfaces
2020-	Mani Esna-Ashari	PhD Student	Finite subgroups of the Cremona groups
2018-	Pascal Fong	PhD Student	Automorphisms of projective bundles over curves and surfaces
2018-	Philipp Mekler	PhD Student	Algebraic statistics
2020-	Erik Paemurru	Post-doc	Birational geometry, singularity theory, computer algebra
2018-	Sokratis Sikas	PhD Student	Birational geometry, Sarkisov links
2017-	Immanuel van Santen	Post-doc	Affine geometry, algebra, birational geometry
2018-	Egor Yasinsky	Post-doc	Birational geometry, real geometry, groups, symplectic manifolds

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Former PhD students (by chronological order)

Years	Name	Current position	Title of PhD and articles written during it
2016-20	Julia Schneider	Post-doc (University of Toulouse)	A birational journey: From plane curve singularities to the Cremona group over perfect fields Generators of the plane Cremona group over the field with two elements preprint Relations in the Cremona group over perfect fields preprint Plane curves of fixed bidegree and their Ak-singularities. North-West. Eur. J. Math. 6 (2020), 45-89.
2014-18	Mattias Hemmig		Isomorphisms between complements of plane curves Isomorphisms between complements of projective plane curves Épijournal Geom. Algébrique 3 (2019), Art. 15, 44 pp. Exceptional isomorphisms between complements of affine plane curves. (with J. Blanc and J.-P. Furter) Duke Math. J. 168 (2019), no. 12, 2235-2297.
2013-17	Christian Urech	Instructor (EPFL)	Subgroups of Cremona groups Simple groups of birational transformations in dimension two Comment. Math. Helv. 95 (2020), no. 2, 211-246. Subgroups of elliptic elements of the Cremona group J. Reine Angew. Math. 770 (2021), 27-57. On homomorphisms between Cremona groups. Ann. Institut Fourier (Grenoble) 68 (2018), no. 1, 53-100. Remarks on the degree growth of birational transformations. Math. Res. Lett. 25 (2018), no. 1, 291-308
2013-16	Susanna Zimmermann	Maîtresse de conférences (University of Angers)	Compositions and relations in the Cremona groups The abelianisation of the real Cremona group. Duke Math. J. 167 (2018), no. 2, 211-267 Topologies of the Cremona groups (with J. Blanc). Amer. J. Math. 140 (2018), no. 5, 1297-1309. Infinite algebraic subgroups of the real Cremona group (with M. Robayo). Osaka J. of Math. 55 (2018), no. 4, 681-712. The decomposition group of a line (with I. Héden). Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 145 (2017), no. 9, 3665-3680. The Cremona group is compactly presented. J. London Math. Soc. 93, no. 1 (2016), 25-46.
2010-14	Maria Fernanda Robayo		Birational diffeomorphisms of the sphere of finite order Prime order birational diffeomorphisms of the sphere. Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) 16 (2016), no. 3, 909-970.

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Former other members of the group (by chronological order)

Years	Name	Current position	Subject
2017-20	Anne Lonjou	Maîtresse de conférences (University of Paris-Sarclay)	Cremona groups, geometric group theory, Voronoi cells.
2016-17	Enrica Floris	Maîtresse de conférences (University of Poitiers)	Birational geometry, foliations.
2015-16	Andrea Fanelli	Maître de conférences (University of Bordeaux)	Birational geometry.
2015-16	Jean-Philippe Furter	Maître de conférences (University of La Rochelle)	Affine algebraic geometry.
2013-15	Isac Hedén	Post-doc (KTH - Stockholm)	Affine algebraic geometry. Birational geometry.
2011-13	Julie Déserti	Maîtresse de conférences (University of Nice)	Cremona groups. Foliatons.
2010	Hamid Ahmadinezhad	Lecturer (University of Loughborough)	Birational geometry.