Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

• Professor (08/2010 - today)
  Extraordinarius (W2) for Dynamical Systems at the Technische Universität München
• Assistant Researcher (04/2010 - 07/2010)
  at the Technische Universität Wien
• Visiting Professor (11/2009 - 03/2010)
  Substitute (W2) for Differential Equations at the Universität Mainz
• Assistent Researcher (04/2008 - 10/2009)
  at the Technische Universität Wien
• Post-Doc Researcher (04/2007 - 03/2008)
  Assegnista di ricerca at the Università di Pavia
• Assistent Researcher (01/2004 - 03/2007)
  at the Universität Mainz

Academic Degrees

• Privatdozent (Habilitation in Applied Analysis)
  Technische Universität Wien, 14. July 2010
  "On the equilibration in certain kinetic and diffusion equations"
• Dr. rer. nat (PhD in Mathematics)
  Technische Universität Berlin, 18. December 2003
  "Discrete Surfaces and Coordinate Systems: Approximation Theorems and Computation"
• Diplom-Mathematiker (Diploma in Mathematics)
  Technische Universität Berlin, 23. July 1999
  "Analysis einer nichtlineare parabolischen Gleichung aus der Halbleiterphysik mit globaler Kopplung"

Education

• Graduate Studies (2000-2003)
  at the Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Mathematics
  PhD on discrete differential geometry (well-posedness of the initial value problem and continuous limit of discrete surfaces, coordinate systems and circle patterns)
  supervised by A.I. Bobenko/Yu.B. Suris
• Visiting Scholar (1999-2000)
  at Brown University, Providence, R.I. (USA)
  studies on perturbations of the cubic non-linear Schrödinger equation
  invited by W. Craig
• Undergraduate Studies (1995-1999)
  at the Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Mathematics
  Diploma thesis on the qualitative behaviour of a parabolic PDE (dynamical bifurcations in a reaction-diffusion equation with non-local interaction)
  supervised by R. Seiler/B. Fiedler