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Education
Employment
Awards and Grants
Synergistic Activities and Service

education

2002
Ph.D. in mathematics, The University of Melbourne, Australia
1997
Bachelor of Science (Honours) (First Class), The University of Melbourne, Australia
1996
Zwischenprüfung in Mathematics and Philosophy (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
1992
Abitur (High School diploma), Gymnasium Oppenheim, Germany

languages

English, French, German

employment

2020–
Professor of Geometric Topology, The University of Sydney, Australia
2017–2019
Associate Professor, The University of Sydney, Australia
2014–2016
Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney, Australia
2011–2013
Lecturer, The University of Sydney, Australia
2009–2011
Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, The University of Queensland, Australia
2006–2009
Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Australia
2005–2006
CIRGET Postdoctoral Fellow, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
2003–2005
CRM-ISM Postdoctoral Fellow, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
2002–2003
Tutor and Visiting Researcher, The University of Melbourne, Australia
1992–1994
Zivildienst (Social Services), ABS Mainz, Germany

visiting positions

2022
Visitor (5 months), Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
2017
SFB-Gastprofessor (6 months), Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
2014–2015
Visiting Professor (6 weeks), Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, France
2013–2014
Visitor (3 months), Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
2011
Visitor (2 months), Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
2009
Visitor (1 month), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
2007
Visitor (1 month), Warwick Mathematics Institute, Coventry, England
2006
Visitor (1 month), Yale University, New Haven, USA
2006
Visitor (2 months), Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
2002
Lehrbeauftragter (4 months), Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
2001
Visitor (2 months), Columbia University, New York City, USA
2000
Visitor (6 months), Columbia University, New York City, USA
1998
Research Assistant (3 months), The University of Melbourne, Australia

awards

2021
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2015
Faculty of Science Teaching and Learning Award, University of Sydney
1998–2002
International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (awarded by the Commonwealth of Australia)
2001
Melbourne Abroad Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship (awarded by the University of Melbourne)
2001
B.H. Neumann Prize of the Australian Mathematical Society
2000
Postgraduate Overseas Research Experience Scholarship (awarded by the University of Melbourne)
1997
A place on the Dean's Honours List 1997 for excellence in academic achievement (awarded by the Dean of Science, The University of Melbourne)
1992
The certificate for social engagement of the Minister of Cultural Affairs of the state Rhineland-Palatrine, Germany

research grants

2020
The three-dimensional sphere and its triangulations: Finding the key to the difficulty of computations
Jonathan Spreer, Stephan Tillmann, Baduseb Datta, Biplab Basak
India Development Fund, Office of Global Engagement, The University of Sydney
2019–2021
Trisections, triangulations and the complexity of manifolds
Stephan Tillmann, Hyam Rubinstein and Jonathan Spreer
ARC Discovery Grant DP190102259
2018–2021
Interactions between geometric and topological structures
Stephan Tillmann
ARC Future Fellowship FT170100316
2016–2018
Invariants, geometric and discrete structures on manifolds
Craig Hodgson, Hyam Rubinstein and Stephan Tillmann
ARC Discovery Grant DP160104502
2014–2016
Moduli spaces of geometric structures
Stephan Tillmann
ARC Discovery Grant DP140100158
2013–2015
Triangulations in dimension 3 and 4: discrete and geometric structures
Craig Hodgson, Hyam Rubinstein and Stephan Tillmann
ARC Discovery Grant DP130103694
2012–2013
Algorithmic methods in combinatorial topology
Ben Burton, Michael Joswig, Andreas Paffenholz and Stephan Tillmann
Go8 Australia–Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme
2011–2013
Generic complexity in computational topology
Ben Burton, Murray Elder and Stephan Tillmann
ARC Discovery Grant DP110101104
2011
Character varieties of 3-manifolds
Stephan Tillmann
UQ Early Career Research Grant
2010–2012
Triangulations in dimension three: algorithms and geometric structures
Craig Hodgson, Hyam Rubinstein and Stephan Tillmann
ARC Discovery Grant DP1095760; project web-site

education grants

2020
Symmetry in the Arts and Sciences
Stephan Tillmann
DVC Education/Strategic Education Grant
2020
Reading and Writing Mathematics (Revisited)
Oded Yacobi and Stephan Tillmann
DVC Education/Strategic Education Grant
2020
Experiencing mathematical community and creativity: Building a cohort identity
Peter Kim, Milena Radnovic, Eduardo Altmann, Max Davy, Nalini Joshi, Matthew Lim, James Parkinson, Stephan Tillmann, Oded Yacobi
DVC Education/Student Life Grant
2019
Experiencing mathematical community and creativity through mentoring
Peter Kim, Hazel Browne, Nalini Joshi, James Parkinson, Milena Radnovic, Stephan Tillmann, Oded Yacobi
DVC Education/Student Life Grant
2017
Symmetry (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate)
Stephan Tillmann and Mary Myerscough
DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant
2017
Reading and Writing Mathematics (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate)
Oded Yacobi and Stephan Tillmann
DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant
2014
Increasing engaged enquiry by flipping the tutorial in Mathematics and Physics
Mary Myerscough, Stephan Tillmann, Helen Johnston and John O'Byrne
DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant

appointments

1/2022–12/2025
Executive Director, Sydney Mathematical Research Institute
2/2021–1/2023
Deputy Director, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
2018–2019
OIST Mathematics Faculty Search Committee
2013–2018
AMSI Summer School Program Committee
AMSI Summer School Standing Committee
2010–2012
Early Career Representative of the Australian Mathematical Society

departmental service

2017–2020
Education committee (Director of Education Strategy and Innovation)
2015–2021
Research committee
Director of Research Program (Pure Mathematics)
2015–2020
Magagement committee
2017
Associate Head (Education Strategy)
Faculty of Science Education Committee
2014
Second Year Coordinator

conference and workshop organisation

11–15 November 2024
Geometry and topology in low dimensions: A conference celebrating the mathematics of Craig Hodgson, The University of Melbourne, Australia (with Daniele Celoria, Diarmuid Crowley, Paul Norbury, Jessica Purcell and Marcy Robertson)
23–28 September 2024
MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology: Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation (with Stefan Friedl, Joan Licata and Paula Truöl)
6–11 September 2021
MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop Invariants and Structures in Low-Dimensional Topology (with Stefan Friedl, Jessica Purcell and Arunima Ray)
July 2021
CATS 2021, Computational & Algorithmic Topology, Sydney, Australia (with Jonathan Spreer and Kate Turner)
11–13 December 2019
Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces, Sydney, Australia (with Anthony Henderson and Behrouz Taji)
7–18 January 2019
Topology of Manifolds: interactions between high and low dimensions, MATRIX, Creswick, Australia (with Jonathan Bowden, Diarmuid Crowley and Stefan Friedl)
2–6 June 2018
Characters in low-dimensional topology, CRM, Montréal, Canada (with Olivier Collin, Stefan Friedl, Cameron Gordon and Liam Watson)
11–15 December 2017
Computation in geometric topology (with Nathan Dunfield and Saul Schleimer) as part of the 2017-2018 Warwick EPSRC Symposium on Geometry, Topology and Dynamics in Low Dimensions, Warwick, UK.
27 June – 1 July 2017
Computational & Algorithmic Topology, Sydney, Australia (with Robert Haraway and Josh Howie)
11–17 October 2015
Oberwolfach Workshop 1542 "Computational Geometric and Algebraic Topology" at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), Germany (with Ben Burton, Jeff Erickson and Herbert Edelsbrunner)
2–4 April 2014
Computational & Algorithmic Topology, Sydney, Australia
30 September to 3 October 2013
Organisation of the Special Session "Geometry and Topology" at the Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Sydney, Australia (with Joan Licata)
22–23 September 2012
AustMS 2012 Early Career Workshop, Ballarat, Australia (with Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio and Ngamta Thamwattana)
24–25 September 2011
AustMS 2011 Early Career Workshop, Wollongong, Australia (with Bronwyn Hajek and Ngamta Thamwattana)
11–22 July 2011
Conference and graduate winter school Geometry & Topology Down Under, Melbourne, Australia (with James Carlson, Loretta Bartolini, Danny Calegari, Craig Hodgson, William Jaco, Amnon Neeman, Paul Norbury, Arun Ram, Penny Wightwick and Nick Wormald)
6–10 June 2011
Faces of Geometry: 3-Manifolds, Groups & Singularities, Columbia University, USA (with Jason Behrstock, Abhijit Champanerkar, Ilya Kofman and Philip Ording)
25–26 September 2010
AustMS 2010 Early Career Workshop, Caloundra, Australia (with Bronwyn Hajek and Anthony Henderson)
20–21 July 2010
AMSI workshop Algorithms, Algebra and Analysis in Four Dimensions, Brisbane, Australia (with Ben Burton and Murray Elder)
14–18 December 2009
AMSI workshop New directions in Geometric Group Theory, Brisbane, Australia (with Murray Elder and Lawrence Reeves)
25–28 September 2007
Organisation of the Special Session "Geometry and Topology" at the Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Melbourne, Australia (with Ben Andrews and Peter Milley)
1–2 May 2004
Trends in 3-manifolds, Montréal, Canada (with Ben Klaff)

seminar series organisation

2020–present
Australian Geometric Topology Webinar
with Joan Licata (ANU), Dan Mathews (Monash), Jessica Purcell (Monash, until 2022) and Dionne Ibara (Monash, from 2023)
2014–2020
Geometry & Topology seminar at the University of Sydney, Australia
with Robert Haraway (2016), Boris Lishak (2018–2019), Behrouz Taji (2020–2020), Haotian Wu (2016–2020)
2010 and 2011
Mathematics Colloquium at the University of Queensland, Australia
(with Victor Scharaschkin in 2010 and Leonardo Rojas-Nandayapa in 2011)
Semester 2 (2008) and Semester 1 (2009)
Algebra-Geometry-Topology seminar at the University of Melbourne, Australia (with Arun Ram)

reviews

Reviews at MathSciNet (subscription only)
Referee for Algebraic & Geometric Topology
Referee for Duke Mathematics Journal
Referee for Experimental Mathematics
Referee for Geometriae Dedicata
Referee for Geometry & Topology
Referee for Journal of Differential Geometry
Referee for Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society
Referee for Topology and its Applications
Referee for Mathematische Annalen
Referee for Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society