Personal Thesis work

During my education I had to write three theses, one for my undergrad, one for my masters, and the last one for my PhD. You can download those down here, earlier ones are a curious retrospective on how I wrote at a much junior stage.

• PhD thesis:
  "The impact of tides and mass transfer on the evolution of metal-poor massive binary stars". 2017, Universität Bonn, Germany.
  ADS entry here.

• Master thesis:
  "Evolution of axially symmetric magnetic fields in neutron star crusts due to the Hall drift", 2012, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
  Results were later published as Marchant et al. (2015).

• Undergrad thesis:
  "Large-scale instabilities of poloidal magnetic fields in stars", 2010, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
  Results were later published as Marchant et al. (2011).

PhD Students

• Matthias Fabry:
  "Detailed structure and evolution modeling of the tightest massive binary stars". 2024, KU Leuven, Belgium.

MsC Students

• Sasha Graulus:
  "Mass Transfer Stability of Massive Binaries: The Role of Stellar Structure in Forming Merging Double Compact Objects", 2025, KU Leuven, Belgium. Co-supervised with Annachiara Picco.

• Stephanie Streefland:
  Quantifying degeneracies in evolutionary models of interacting binary stars with Bayesian inference, 2025, KU Leuven, Belgium.

• Eva Kuipers:
  Nuclear networks and computational complexity in stellar evolution, 2024, KU Leuven, Belgium. Co-supervised with Matthias Fabry.

• Digonto Rahman:
  Differentiable Stellar Evolution: Modelling Stars with New Programming Paradigms, 2024, KU Leuven, Belgium. Co-supervised with Matthias Fabry.

• Stijn van Leuven:
  Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae with Massive Hydrogen Envelopes from Stellar Mergers: Progenitors for Black Holes in the Upper Mass Gap?, 2021, KU Leuven, Belgium.