Abstract
The goal of this thesis report is to present my research concerning separation and Poincaré profiles. Separation profile first appeared in 2012 in a seminal article written by Benjamini, Schramm and Timár. This definition was based on preceding research, in the field of computer science, mainly work of Lipton and Trajan concerning planar graphs, and of Miller, Teng, Thurston and Vavasis concerning overlap graphs. The separation profile plays now a role in geometric group theory, where my personal interests lies, because of its property of monotonicity under coarse embeddings. It was generalized by Hume, Mackay and Tessera in 2019 to a spectrum of profiles, called the Poincaré profiles.