Benjamin Peters

Contact details here
I'm a PhD student advised by Derek Dreyer at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Saarbrücken, Germany. I'm working on OxCaml, a set of OCaml extensions developed by Jane Street. Lately, my work has focused on proving soundness of the combination of OxCaml's concurrency and effect handler APIs, and on combining Kripke and separation logic reasoning in Iris. I have a bachelor's degree in computer science from Saarland University, and a master's degree from Oxford University.

Benjamin Peters

Publications

Mode Crossing (conditionally accepted)
Benjamin Peters, Jules Jacobs, Diana Kalinichenko, Liam Stevenson, Aspen Smith, Derek Dreyer, Richard A. Eisenberg
ICFP 2026, Indianapolis, USA, 2026
Data Race Freedom à la Mode (PDF) (DOI)
Aïna Linn Georges, Benjamin Peters, Laila Elbeheiry, Leo White, Stephen Dolan, Richard A. Eisenberg, Chris Casinghino, François Pottier, and Derek Dreyer
Recipient of the POPL 2025 Distinguished Paper Award
POPL 2025, Denver, USA, 2025
Gödel’s Theorem Without Tears — Essential Incompleteness in Synthetic Computability (PDF) (DOI)
Dominik Kirst, Benjamin Peters
CSL 2023, Warsaw, Poland, 2023

Supervision

One An May 2026 - August 2026
Lara Engelkamp March 2026 - August 2026
Christian Michel March 2026 - August 2026
Eugene Fleselle September 2025 - July 2026