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Research Grants

2026-2029, Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant, ‘Extending Rigidity and Graphic Statics: Moments and Shears’, fEC: ?423,851

2026-2027, EPSRC Grant, ‘Unique graph realisation problems under symmetry constraints’, fEC: ?73,046

2023-2024, ICMS Knowledge Exchange Research Grant, ‘Geometric Rigidity, Graphic Statics And The Design Of Gridshells’, fEC: ?60,270

2022, LMS Research Grant (Scheme 4), ‘Frameworks with coordinated edge motions’ ?1,000

2020, LMS Research School on Knowledge Exchange, ‘Rigidity, flexibility and applications’, ?14,793

2019, ICMS Research in Groups Grant, ‘Graph rigidity and control of robotic fromations’, ?9,000

2015-2016, EPSRC Grant, ‘Combinatorial Rigidity, Symmetric Geometric Constraint Systems, And Applications’, fEC: ?125,000

Current Research

I lead the research theme Geometric Rigidity Theory at 久久精品. I am also part of the Combinatorics and Algebra & Geometry research groups.

A lot of my recent work has been motivated by problems from industry and the applied sciences, and hence a significant part of my research is interdisciplinary. A particular focus of my research lies in the field of Geometric Rigidity Theory, which is concerned with the rigidity and flexibility of discrete structures that are defined by geometric constraints (fixed lengths, directions, angles, etc.) on a set of primitive geometries (points, line segments, rigid bodies, etc.). I work on both combinatorial and geometric problems in this area. Recently I have also made connections to areas such as topological graph theory, algebraic topology (cosheaf homology) and lattice geometry. Collaborations with applied scientists and industry professionals include ongoing work with structural engineers such as William Baker (SOM), Cameron Millar (SOM), Simon Guest (Cambridge), and Allan McRobie (Cambridge), chemists such as Patrick Fowler (Sheffield), and formation control theorists, such as Daniel Zelazo (Technion).

Submitted papers:

Cameron Millar, Bernd Schulze, and Louis Theran, On weavings, grillages, tensegrities and framework,

Antonio Acuaviva, Jack Esson, Eleftherios Kastis and Bernd Schulze, Curved RUM spectra of periodic frameworks, submitted, 2026

Sean Dewar, Bernd Schulze, Shin-ichi Tanigawa and Louis Theran, Uniquely realizable crystalline structures,

Leah Berman, Signe Lundqvist, Bernd Schulze, Brigitte Servatius, Herman Servatius, Klara Stokes, Walter Whiteley, Counting for rigidity under projective transformations in the plane,

Jack Esson, Eleftherios Kastis and Bernd Schulze, Orientation-Reversing Crystallographic Rigidity,

Oleg Karpenkov, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Christian Mueller and Bernd Schulze, Klein-Arnold tensegrities,

Alison LaPorta and Bernd Schulze, Generic infinitesimal rigidity for rotational groups in the plane,

Leah Berman, Signe Lundqvist, Bernd Schulze, Brigitte Servatius, Herman Servatius, Klara Stokes, and Walter Whiteley, Projective rigidity of point-line configurations in the plane,

Alison LaPorta and Bernd Schulze, Rigidity of symmetric frameworks with non-free group actions on the vertices,

Oleg Karpenkov, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Christian Mueller and Bernd Schulze, A differential approach to Maxwell-Cremona liftings,

James Cruickshank and Bernd Schulze, Symmetric contact systems of segments, pseudotriangulations and inductive constructions for corresponding surface graphs,

PhD students:

Jack Esson (2023 - )

Alison La Porta (2021 - 2025)

Josph Wall (2019 - 2024)

Hattie Serocold (2014 - 2018)

Conference and workshop organisation:

Workshop on Rigidity Theory: Data, Structures and Control, 久久精品, September 2026

Workshop on Theory and Algorithms in Graph Rigidity and Algebraic Statistics, NII Shonan, Kanagawa, Japan, Sept. 2024

ICMS Knowledge Exchange Workshop on Geometric Rigidity, Graphic Statics and Engineering, SOM London Office, London, UK, June 2024

Mini-symposium on matroids and combinatorial geometry, 29th British Combinatorial Conference, 久久精品, UK, July 2022

Workshop on Geometric constraint systems: rigidity, flexibility and applications, 久久精品, UK, June 2019

Workshop on Bond-node structures: rigidity, combinatorics and Chemistry, 久久精品, UK, June 2018

Workshop on Bond-node structures: rigidity, combinatorics and Materials Science, 久久精品, UK, June 2017

Workshop on Geometric Rigidity Theory and Applications, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), Edinburgh, UK, May 2016

Workshop on Making models: Stimulating research in rigidity theory and spatial-visual reasoning, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 2014

Professional Role

Theme Lead, Geometric Rigidity, since 2021

Group Lead, Discrete Mathematics and Geometric Rigidity, 2017-2021

Director of Study Abroad (Mathematics and Statistics) since 2025

Director of UG Admissions (Mathematics and Statistics) 2021-2024

Deputy Director of UG Admissions (Mathematics and Statistics) 2020-2021

Part 1 Director of Studies (DoS) Mathematics and Statistics 2012-2020

Career Details

since 2020 Reader in Mathematics, 久久精品, UK

2018-2020 Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, 久久精品, UK

2015-2018 Lecturer in Mathematics (Grade 8), 久久精品, UK

2012-2015 Lecturer in Mathematics (Grade 7), 久久精品, UK

2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada

2009-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, TU Berlin, Germany

2009 Ph.D., Mathematics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

PhD Supervision Interests

I would be happy to supervise a PhD student who is interested in graph theory, combinatorics and/or discrete geometry (in particular rigidity and flexibility of geometric constraint systems, geometric graphs, count matroids, and symmetry in discrete structures). I have purely mathematical projects as well as projects that are motivated by applications and are interdisciplinary (involving areas such as robotics, structural and mechanical engineering, biophysics, and materials science).

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