Curriculum Vitae
Employment
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Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics,
Brown University, Providence, 2008 - present.
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Research Professor in the Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics,
University of Surrey, Guildford, June 2004 - August 2008.
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Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Ohio State University, Columbus, October 2004 - September 2005.
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Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Ohio State University, Columbus, October 2000 - September 2004.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Ohio State University, Columbus, January 1998 - September 2000.
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Research Fellow at the Weierstrass-Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS),
Berlin, May 1993 - August 1997.
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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
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Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics,
University of Surrey, Guildford, September 2008 - August 2011.
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Ohio State University, Columbus, October 2005 - July 2006.
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Long-Term Visitor at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, September 1997 - December
1997.
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Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Division of Applied Mathematics,
Brown University, Providence, September 1995 - December 1996.
Education
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Doctoral (PhD) degree from the Department of Mathematics,
University of Stuttgart, May 1993.
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Graduate student, Department of Mathematics,
University of Stuttgart, October 1990 - April 1993.
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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
- NSF PI grants:
- NSF Co-PI 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
- Editorial Boards:
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