Curriculum Vitae
Born on January 1st, 1968
in Bellinzona
(Ticino,
Switzerland)
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.
Ph.D. Thesis (in english)
entitled Singular Parabolic Evolution Equations and
Applications defended in 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.
- July 2001 - June 2007
- Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Irvine.
- July 2007 - June 2011
- Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Irvine.
- July 2012 - July 2019
- Vice-Chair for Graduate Studies
Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Irvine.
- July 2011 - Present
- Professor
Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Irvine.
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, 2007-2011.
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.).
- September 2001 - Present
- See my current teaching
page.
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 DZ PRIVATBANK).
July 2006
Designed, organized and directed summer school (Sommerakademie)
of the Schweizerische Studientstiftung in Engelberg
(Switzerland), July 8-15 2006.
Graduate Students
- Daniel Agress (2020)
- now Numerical Analyst at Aerospace Corporation.
- Greg Zitelli (2019)
- now Financial Analyst at Capital Group.
- Ali Kassir (2018)
- now Data Scientist at iHerb Inc.
- Kate Longo (2010)
- now at SPAWAR, San Diego.
- Tristan Egualada (2007)
- now at Intercontinental Exhange.
- Micah Webster (2007)
- now at Goucher College, Baltimore.
Postdocs
- James Lambers
- now at University of Southern Mississippi.
- Yunho Kim
- now at Ulsan National Institute of Science and
Technology, South Korea.
Languages
- Dialètt Ticines
- Mother tongue.
- English
- Fluent (spoken and written).
- French
- Fluent (spoken and written).
- German
- Fluent (spoken and written).
- Italian
- Fluent (spoken and written).
- Portuguese
- Spoken.
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