Director of Studies for the MSc in Modern Applications of Mathematics (date of appointment: September 1st, 2006)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Bath,
UK, November 1997 - December 2000.
Junior Researcher
Siemens AG Munich,
Germany, July - August 1996 and 1996.
Remedial class teacher (part-time)
Schuelerhilfe Linz,
Austria, 1992 - 1996.
| Title: " | Iterative Solution of Saddle Point Problems Using Divergence-free Finite Elemenst with Applications to Groundwater Flow" |
| Including: | - | ERASMUS-Exchange; one term of the MSc course in Industrial Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 1995 |
| - | Work Placement; one year at Siemens AG Munich, Germany, 1996/97 |
| Thesis: " | Parallel Solution of the Transient Multigroup Neutron Diffusion Equations with Multi-Grid and Preconditioned Krylov-Subspace Methods" |
Best Graduate Talk at the second week of the Numerical Analysis Summer School, Leicester, 1998.
Linz University nominee for the Hansjoerg Wacker Memorial Prize awarded by ECMI, 1998.
SIAM Student Paper Prize at the SIAM Annual Meeting, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, 2000.
British-Council Franco-British Research Partnership for a collaboration with the Institute Francais du Petrole (IFP), Paris, France, 2003-2004 (Amount: 3575.- pounds).
Royal Society Travel Grant to visit the Centre for Subsurface Modelling at the University of Austin, Texas (M. Wheeler, C. Dawson, etc.) and the SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences at Austin, March 2003 (Amount: 1056.- pounds).
Nuffield Newly-Appointed Lecturer Award for a top-of-the-range workstation and travel from and to Estonia, 2003-2005 (Amount: 5750.- pounds).
Research Agreement with the IFP, Paris for travel to Paris and to the PARAOPE Conference in Heidelberg 2003-2004 (Amount: 1000.- pounds).
Royal Society Conference Grant to attend the 8th European Multigrid Conference EMG2005 in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, September 2005 (Amount: 750.- pounds).
Teaching Development Grant (from the University of Bath) for a project on "Assessing Higher Mathematical Skills Using Computer Aided Assessment", 2005-2006 (joint-PI with Udo Hertrich-Jeromin, Amount: 12700.- pounds).
Great Western Research (GWR) Studentship in collaboration with the UK MET Office to support a PhD project on Numerical Methods for Weather and Climate Models 2006-2009 (Amount: 55200.- pounds).
Royal Society Conference Grant to attend the SIAM Geosciences Conference, Santa Fe, and the Multigrid Conference in Copper Mountain, March 2007 (Amount: 1400.- pounds).
Teaching Development Grant (from the University of Bath, PI: KAJ White) for a project on "Academic Induction for Masters' Programmes", 2008-2010 (co-investigator, Amount: 7970.- pounds).
London Mathematical Society (PI: IG Graham) for a LMS Durham Research Symposium on ``Numerical Analysis of Multiscale Problems'', organised jointly with Tom Hou (Caltech) and Ivan Graham (Bath) in July 2010 (co-investigator, Amount: 12000.- pounds guaranteed; up to ~50000.- pounds, if EPSRC funding is secured).
I am also heavily involved with the EPSRC Critical Mass Grant (PI: CJ Budd) to set up the Bath Institute for Complex Systems 2005-2009 (Total Value: 1M pounds). Involvement: deputy theme manager and main supervisor of the PDRA on Theme D: "Numerical Methods for Multiscale PDEs" (Amount: 170000.- pounds).
Total Current Grant Income: 271401.- pounds (81431.- pounds as PI)
| Languages: | German (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), Spanish (intermediate) |
| Sports: | Any. Especially outdoor sports, like skiing, climbing, cycling, surfing |
| Travelling: | I have been lucky to have seen already many corners of the world, and I hope I will have the chance still to see many more. |
Last updated 26/06/2006