Curriculum Vitae
Employment
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Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics,
Brown University, Providence, 2008 - present.
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Professor, 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.
Visiting Positions
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Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics,
University of Surrey, Guildford, September 2008 - present.
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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 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.
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
Service
- NSF-DMS Committee of Visitors, February 2007.
- SIAM Activities:
- 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:
- Equadiff 2011 to be held in Loughborough (Co-Chair)
- Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting on Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and PDEs, May 2010 (Scientific Committee)
- SIAM Annual Meeting, July 2009 (Organizing Committee)
- Oberwolfach Meeting "Dynamics of Patterns", 14-20 December 2008 (Co-Organizer)
- Summer School "Multidimensional Localized Structures", University of Rome, 18-19 July 2008
- SIAM Conference on "Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures", University of Rome, 21-24 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
