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

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.