Members of the group (by alphabetical order)

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Years	Name	Position	Subjects
2010-	Jérémy Blanc	Associate professor	Cremona groups, birational geometry, affine algebraic geometry, real algebraic geometry
2018-	Pascal Fong	PhD Student	projective bundles over curves
2017-	Anne Lonjou	Post-doc	Cremona groups, geometric group theory, Voronoi cells
2018-	Philipp Mekler	PhD Student	Algebraic statistics
2016-	Julia Schneider	PhD Student	Singularities of plane curves
2018-	Sokratis Sikas	PhD Student	Birational geometry
2017-	Immanuel van Santen	Post-doc	Affine geometry, algebra, birational geometry
2018-	Egor Yasinsky	Post-Doc	Birational geometry, real geometry, groups

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Former PhD students (by chronological order)

Years	Name	Current position	Title of PhD and articles written during it
2014-18	Mattias Hemmig		Isomorphisms between complements of plane curves Isomorphisms between complements of projective plane curves preprint Exceptional isomorphisms between complements of affine plane curves. (with J. Blanc and J.-P. Furter) Duke Math. (to appear)
2013-17	Christian Urech	Post-doc (Imperial college)	Subgroups of Cremona groups Simple groups of birational transformations in dimension two Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (to appear) Subgroups of elliptic elements of the Cremona group preprint 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
2016-17	Enrica Floris	Maîtresse de conférences (University of Poitiers)	Birational geometry, foliations.
2015-16	Andrea Fanelli	Post-doc (University of Düsseldorf)	Birational geometry.
2015-16	Jean-Philippe Furter	Maître de conférences (University of La Rochelle)	Affine algebraic geometry.
2013-15	Isac Hedén	Post-doc (University of Warwick)	Affine algebraic geometry. Birational geometry.
2011-13	Julie Déserti	Maîtresse de conférences (University of Paris 7)	Cremona groups. Foliatons.
2010	Hamid Ahmadinezhad	Lecturer (University of Loughborough)	Birational geometry.