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Curriculum Vitae
Born on January 1st, 1968
in Bellinzona
(Ticino,
Switzerland)
Swiss Citizen.
Education
October 1987 - July 1992
Study of Mathematics with optional Insurance Mathematics and Computer Science
at the Universität Zürich.
Diploma Thesis (in german) with Prof. Dr. Herbert Amann entitled
Existence and Asymptotic Behavior of the Solution for a
Parabolic-Elliptic System.
Diploma in Mathematics awarded in July 1992.
October 1992 - February 1996
Ph.D. Student at the Mathematics Department
of the Universität Zürich with Advisor Prof. Dr. Herbert Amann.
Participation (with talk) in several conferences, workshops and DMV-Seminars and
Summer Academies of the
Schweizerische Studienstiftung.
Submission of the Ph.D. Thesis (in english) entitled
Singular Parabolic Evolution Equations and Applications
in October 1995. Thesis defended in February 1996.
Professional Experience
October 1992 - March 1997
Teaching Assistant at the Universität Zürich.
April 1997 - August 1997
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship.
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department
of Mathematics of the
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
September 1997 - March 1999
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship. Postdoctoral Scholar in the
Applied and Computational
Mathematics Department
of the California Institute of Technology.
September 1999 - June 2001
Von Karman Instructor in the
Applied and Computational Mathematics Department of the California Institute of Technology.
Honors and Funding
Supported Fellow of the Schweizerische
Studienstiftung from 1992 to 1996.
Auszeichung (distinction) for Ph.D. Thesis.
1st Price of the
Preisinstitut of the Universität Zürich.
Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Swiss National
Science Foundation from 1997 to 1999.
Co-PI on CMS-0330470 "Sensors: Broad-Bandwidth High-Resolution MEMS
Array of Inertial Sensors with Embedded Optical Detection'' of the National Science Foundation, 2003-2006.
Travel Grant of the Swiss Mathematical Society, 2007.
Single PI on DMS-0712875 "Nonlinear Diffusions and Image Processing" of the
National Science Foundation,
2007-2010.
Teaching Experience
October 1992 - March 1997
Teaching Assistant at the Mathematics Department (Universität Zürich).
Organized student seminars, graded excercises and led recitation sections for
the entire curriculum.
Lecture course Mathematik für Chemiker (Mathematics for Chemists)
taught to first year chemistry students during the summer semester 1996.
April 1997 - June 1997
Lecture course Evolutionsgleichungen (evolutionary equations) taught in
the Mathematics Department of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
(Germany).
October 1998 - March 1999
Lecture course Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
taught in the Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Departments of the
California Institute of Technology (U.S.A.).
October 1999 - June 2000
Lecture course Applied Functional Analysis taught in the Applied Mathematics
Department of the California Institute of Technology (U.S.A.).
September 2000 - June 2001
Lecture course Advanced Partial Differential Equations taught in the
Applied Mathematics Department at the California Institute of Technology (U.S.A.).
Additional Experience
July 1996 - March 1997
Designed, organized and taught Introduction to Financial Mathematics
and Financial Mathematics for DG Bank
(Switzerland) AG in Zurich (now called cosba private banking).
July 2006
Designed, organized and directed summer school (Sommerakademie) of the
Schweizerische Studientstiftung
in Engelberg
(Switzerland), July 8-15 2006.
Languages
English: Fluent (spoken and written).
French: Fluent (spoken and written).
German: Fluent (spoken and written).
Italian: Mother tongue.
Portuguese: Spoken.
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