Hello, my name is Fatima Fneish, and I am from Lebanon. I joined the Computational Optics Group at TU/e in the beginning of July 2026 as a PhD candidate. I arrived in Eindhoven while my family, like many others, was living through the consequences of a very harsh war on Lebanon and grieving [Read more]

Hi everyone, my name is Axel Linders. I completed both my Bachelor's and Master's here in Eindhoven and from the end of March 2026 I started as a PhD student in Illumination Optics. I will be working on periodic surfaces from solutions of the hyperbolic Monge-Ampère equation. In my free time I like [Read more]

Hi everyone! My name is Fangna Xiang. I am from Zhejiang University, China. I joined CASA as a visiting PhD student on March 15th 2026. I will be staying here for one year, working under the supervision of Professor Arris Tijsseling. I earned a Bachelor degree in Process Equipment and Control Engineering from [Read more]

Hi everyone, my name is Sara Giarrusso. As of January 2026, I joined CASA and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at TU/e as an Assistant Professor. My research lies at the interface between physics, chemistry, and mathematics, and aims at developing reliable and practical methods to describe electronic structure from a [Read more]

Hi everyone! I’m Jop Hendrikx. I studied Applied Physics (BSc and MSc) at TU/e, where I specialized in computational plasma modeling and learned to enjoy the combination of physics, mathematics, and numerics needed to turn complex phenomena into reliable simulations. On 1 December 2025, I started in my new role in illumination optics, bringing that [Read more]

Hello everyone, my name is Geert-Jan Rutten. As of June 2025, I joined CASA as a Professor of Computational Neurosurgery. I have a background in physics and medicine, and I have been working as a neurosurgeon at ETZ Tilburg since 2007, with a clinical focus on neuro-oncology—particularly awake brain surgery—and deep brain stimulation. [Read more]

Hi everyone! My name is Anna De Magistris, and joined CASA on October 14th, 2025. I'm a visiting PhD student in Mathematics, and I’ll be working under the supervision of Professor Michiel Hochstenbach for the next six months. I earned my Master's degree in Mathematics, with a specialisation in Numerical Analysis, from the [Read more]

Hi, I am Nino. On September 1st 2025, I joined CASA as a PhD student, working on the project “Emergence of Irreversibility and the Arrow of Time” under supervision of Mark Peletier and Klaas Landsman. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from TU Delft, studying Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, and my Master’s degree [Read more]

Hello everyone, my name is Sarah. I joined CASA as a PhD student in the Computational Illumination Optics group on October 1st. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Hasselt University and completed my Master’s here at TU/e, where my thesis focused on developing a mathematical model for a two-dimensional lens–reflector system. In [Read more]

Hi everyone, My name is Max, and I joined the Applied Analysis group in CASA as a docent on August 1st. I’m originally from the central United States, and since 2015 I’ve pursued my academic journey through a PhD in Seattle, Washington, followed by postdoctoral positions in Leipzig, Germany, and Jyväskylä, Finland. My [Read more]