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.

Recent Administrative Positions

Chair, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, July 2011 - present.
Vice Chair, Research Advisory Board, Office of the Vice President for Research, Brown University, July 2011 - present.
Associate Director, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), July 2010 - present.
Associate Chair, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, July 2010 - June 2011.
Director, Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems (LCDS), Brown University, 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 and Fellowships

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

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
- SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2012-present.
Editorial Boards:
- Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Series B), 2001-2008.
- Physica D, 2005-present.
- Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 2010-present.
- SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2002-present.
- SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 2003-present.
- Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen, 2006-present.

Service

NSF-DMS Committee of Visitors, February 2007.
SIAM Activities:
- M Kruskal Prize Committee, SIAM, 2011.
- Nominating Committee (Chair), SIAM Activity Group Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, 2010.
- Nominating Committee, SIAM Activity Group Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, 2008.
- Chair, SIAM Activity Group Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, 2007-2008.
- Program Director, SIAM Activity Group Dynamical Systems, 2004-2005.
- Nominating Committee, SIAM Activity Group Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, 2004.
- Steering Committee, SIAM Activity Group Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, 2003-2004.
- JD Crawford Prize Committee, SIAM, 2002-2003.
- Committee on Funding Issues, SIAM Activity Group Dynamical Systems, 2002-2004.
Conference Organization:
- 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.