Introduction

Hello! My name is Sarah Houdaigoui. I am currently a Ph.D student at the Graduate university for advanced studies (SOKENDAI). I am working under the supervision of Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo. I started my Ph.D in October 2023 and will therefore defend my thesis in July 2026. During my Ph.D, I am working on excluded minors for surfaces and trying to improving the known bounds on parameters for these graphs.

My research interests lie in graph theory, combinatorics, algorithms and discrete mathematics. I am especially intested in graph structural theory, graph coloring and graphs on surfaces.

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