About Me
I started studying mathematics in 2014 at the University of Antwerp. Here I developed a strong interest in abstract analysis, mostly topology and functional analysis. At the end of the bachelor, I got offered a summer intern job at Motulus, where I worked on a specific optimisation problem. This hands-on experience was very related, though, very different from what I previously had been doing. During my master, I studied a mix of the most abstract and most applied parts of mathematics. The interesting part is where they meet.
To complete my master, I wrote a thesis on finite topological spaces and their place in algebraic topology. Finite topological spaces sound useless to most mathematicians focussing on abstract analysis. They appear only as an artefact of the beautifully general definition of a topological space given by Hausdorff and Kuratowski. However, in algebraic topology they do have some potential, as they can be used as finite carriers of the abstraction of shape that is studied in this field.
Currently, I work in the field of Computed Tomography , better known as CT scanning. It is a great tool to get complete 3D visualisations of an object of interest. I focus specifically on the 4D tomography of the formation process of foam. Here, the goal is to create algorithms that yield moving 3D images of a foam while it is forming. In this way, this formation process can be better understood.
Contact Details
Jens Renders
Campus Drie Eiken
Room D.N.114
Universiteitsplein 1
2610 Antwerp, Belgium
jens@rende.rs