Curriculum Vitae

Employment

Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics,
Brown University, Providence, 2008 - present.
Research Professor in the Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics,
University of Surrey, Guildford, June 2004 - August 2008.
Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Ohio State University, Columbus, October 2004 - September 2005.
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Ohio State University, Columbus, October 2000 - September 2004.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Ohio State University, Columbus, January 1998 - September 2000.
Research Fellow at the Weierstrass-Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS),
Berlin, May 1993 - August 1997.
Research Assistant at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR),
University of Heidelberg, April 1990 - September 1990.

Service (Brown University)

Current service:

Member, Tenure, Promotions, and Appointments Committee (TPAC), spring 2018 - present.
Member, Task Force on Doctoral Advising, spring 2017 - present.
Member, Executive Committee, Data Science Initiative, fall 2016 - present.
Member, Data Governance Committee, spring 2016 - present.
Member, Advisory Board, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, July 2012 - present.
Associate Director, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), July 2010 - present.
Concentration advisor, 2010 - present.
First-year and sophomore advisor, 2009 - present.

Past service:

Chair, Division of Applied Mathematics, July 2011 - June 2017.
Member, Working Group on Advising, Office of the Dean of the College, 2015.
Member, Rapid Planning Group on Data Sciences Initiative, spring 2015.
Member, Task Force on Institutional Data, spring 2015.
Vice Chair, Research Advisory Board, Office of the Vice President for Research, July 2011 - December 2013.
Associate Chair, Division of Applied Mathematics, July 2010 - June 2011.
Director, Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems (LCDS), July 2010 - June 2011.

Visiting Positions

Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics,
University of Surrey, Guildford, September 2008 - August 2011.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Ohio State University, Columbus, October 2005 - July 2006.
Long-Term Visitor at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, September 1997 - December 1997.
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Division of Applied Mathematics,
Brown University, Providence, September 1995 - December 1996.

Education

Doctoral (PhD) degree from the Department of Mathematics,
University of Stuttgart, May 1993.
Graduate student, Department of Mathematics,
University of Stuttgart, October 1990 - April 1993.
Diploma (Master's) degree in Mathematics,
University of Heidelberg, April 1985 - March 1990.

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence, Brown University, 2017-2020
Graduate School Faculty Award for Advising and Mentoring, Brown University, 2017
Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences, Brown University, 2016.
Elsevier Jack K. Hale Award, 2014.
Comfort and Urry Prize, CareerLAB, Brown University, 2014.
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2013.
SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (with A Scheel), 2007.
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, The Royal Society, June 2004.
JD Crawford Prize, SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems, May 2001.
Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, September 2000 - September 2002.
Feodor-Lynen Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, September 1995 - December 1996.
Fellowship, Graduate Collegium Modelling and discretization methods of continua and fluids, University of Stuttgart, October 1990 - April 1993.
Fellowship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, March 1989 - March 1990.

Selected Grants

Selected Plenary Lectures

The Tenth East China Partial Differential Equations Conference, Shanghai, June 2015.
International Conference on Dynamics of Differential Equations, Atlanta/USA, March 2013.
British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Nottingham/UK, April 2009.
Equadiff 2007, Vienna/Austria, August 2007.
SIAM Conference Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Seattle/USA, September 2006.
Sixth Conference Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Poitiers/France, June 2006.
Dynamics Days Europe, Heidelberg/Germany, July 2002.
SIAM Conference Pacific Rim Dynamical Systems, Maui/USA, August 2000.

Editorial Board Membership

Editor-in-Chief of
- Frontiers in Applied Dynamical Systems: Reviews and Tutorials, 2015-present (with CKRT Jones and L-S Young).
- SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2012-2017.
Editorial Boards:
- Physica D, since 2005.
- Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry, since 2015.
- Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, since 2010.
- SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, since 2002.
- SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 2003-2015 and since 2017.
- Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen, since 2006.

Service (Profession)

NSF-DMS Committee of Visitors, February 2007.
SIAM Activities:
- JD Crawford Prize Committee, SIAM, 2002-2003.
- M Kruskal Prize Committee, SIAM, 2011.
- Committee on Funding Issues, SIAM Activity Group Dynamical Systems, 2002-2004.
- Steering Committee, SIAM Activity Group Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, 2003-2004.
- Program Director, SIAM Activity Group Dynamical Systems, 2004-2005.
- Chair, SIAM Activity Group Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, 2007-2008.
- Nominating Committee, SIAM Activity Group Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, 2004, 2008, 2010 (chair), 2012.
- Nominating Committee, SIAM Activity Group Analysis of PDEs, 2012.
Conference Organization:
- Equadiff 2015, Lyons, August 2015 (Organizing Committee)
- SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, May 2015 (Organizing Committee)
- Brown-ICERM-Kobe Simulation Summer School, Providence/Kobe, August 2013, 2014, 2015 (Co-organizer)
- Oberwolfach Workshop on Dynamics of Patterns, Oberwolfach, 16-22 December 2012 (Co-organizer)
- Summer School on Stability of Coherent Structures and Patterns, Seattle, 11-12 June 2012 (Co-organizer and speaker): Mini-course on Using AUTO for Stability Problems
- LCDS Workshop on Dynamics of Differential Equations, Providence, 4-6 May 2012 (Co-organizer)
- Conference on Geometric Methods for Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems, Providence, 4-6 November 2011 (Co-organizer)
- Equadiff 2011, Loughborough, 1-5 August 2011 (Co-Chair)
- BIRS Workshop on Localized Multi-Dimensional Patterns in Dissipative Systems, Banff, 24-29 July 2011 (Co-organizer)
- Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting on Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and PDEs, May 2010 (Scientific Committee)
- Workshop Emerging Interfacial Dynamics, Guildford, January 2010 (Organizing Committee)
- LCDS Workshop on Lattice Dynamical Systems, Providence, November 2009 (Co-organizer)
- SIAM Annual Meeting, July 2009 (Organizing Committee)
- Oberwolfach Meeting "Dynamics of Patterns", December 2008 (Co-Organizer)
- Summer School "Multidimensional Localized Structures", University of Rome, July 2008
- SIAM Conference on "Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures", University of Rome, July 2008 (Organizing Committee)
- European Dynamics Days 2007, Loughborough, July 2007 (Scientific Committee).
- Theoretical Aspects of Pattern Formation, Guildford, September 2005 (Co-Organizer).
- SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, May 2005 (Co-Chair).
- Stability Criteria for Multi-Dimensional Waves and Patterns, Palo Alto, May 2005 (Co-Organizer).
- SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Orlando, October 2004 (Scientific Committee).

Other Activities

Involved in arts project Shape Shift: Landscape in motion (Abigail Reynolds) at Durlston National Park, Spring 2007
Transparencies shown in the exhibition Lines of Enquiry (Barry Phipps) at Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge), Summer 2006.