Michelle Jacobs-Bothma

I am the contact person for Math4NL, a Dutch start-up, in bridging academic quantitative research and practical industry applications by supporting technology-driven projects. In my part-time role, I am in charge of the website management, based in HTML, as well as managing any administrative duties and social media.

To help fund my studies and new life in the Netherlands, I started using my sewing skills to create a small business that specialises in making custom corsets.

Responsible for setting up and running tutorial sessions and grading assignments. Facilitated online sessions during the pandemic for courses such as Multivariate Calculus, Continuum Mechanics, and Introductory Physics.

Master thesis — Jacobi uniformisation over the p-adic numbers. Available here on the Leiden University Student Repository. The thesis extends the Jacobi intersection model of elliptic curves over the complex numbers, traditionally described through Jacobi theta functions, into the p-adic setting. By constructing integral power series expansions for new p-adic analogues of Jacobi elliptic functions, a non-Archimedean counterpart to the classical complex theory is provided, analogous to John Tate’s p-adic uniformization of elliptic curves for the Weierstraß model. Grade: 8/10. Relevant coursework: Elliptic Curves, Algebraic Curves, Coding Theory, Group Theory, and Dynamical Systems.

Thesis: Geometrical Constants of Banach Spaces. Grade: 80%. Relevant coursework: Numerical Analysis, Stochastic Calculus, Measure Theory, Axiomatic Set Theory, and Mathematical Logic.