Short CV
Academic Qualification
| 1997-2001 | Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Dissertation: Longitudinal Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers Supervisors: Dr. Klaus Schneider, Dr. Lutz Recke Employer: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin Date of Public Defense: 23 July 2001 |
| 1991-1997 | Diploma in Mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Thesis (german): Local error control for general index-1 and index-2 differential algebraic equations |
Postdoctoral experience
| since 2023 | Professor at the University of Exeter |
| since 2016 | Associate Professor at the University of Exeter |
| 2015-2016 | Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter |
| 2012-2015 | Lecturer at the University of Exeter |
| 2008-2012 | Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth |
| 2006-2008 | Research fellow at the University of Aberdeen within the Centre for Applied Dynamics Research in cooperation with Prof. JMT Thompson (FRS) |
| 2002-2006 | Research associate at the University of Bristol within the Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics (part of the EPSRC funded Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamic Engineering) Research subject: Methodological advances in differential delay equations |
| 2001-2002 | Research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center Sfb 555 Complex Nonlinear Processes of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research subject: Analytic and numerical investigations of spatio-temporal pattern formation in semiconductor lasers Employers: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, and Humboldt University of Berlin |
PhD students supervised
| graduated 2016 | Paul D. Ritchie |
| graduated 2018 | Courtney Quinn |
| started 2018, moved to UCL 2020 | Robert E. Carroll |
| started 2020 | Asim Alawfi |
| started 2022 | Ahlam Alhadbani |
| co-supervisor, graduated 2021 | Zhi Zhang, main supervisor Yang Liu |
| co-supervisor, graduated 2023 | Thoraya Alharti, main supervisor Peter Ashwin |
| co-supervisor, started 2019 | Gaby Wang, main supervisor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova |
| co-supervisor, started 2022 | Huda Mahdi, main supervisor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova |
| co-supervisor, started 2023 | Eman Alnuwaysir, main supervisor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova |
Appointments as external or internal examiner
| 2013 | Michael Elmegaard (DTU Lyngby, Denmark), public defense 20 Feb. 2013 |
| 2017 | Kiresh Parmar (University of Sussex, UK), viva voce 14 June 2017 |
| 2018 | Sohaib Talal Al-Ramadhani (University of Exeter, UK), viva voce 27 July 2018 |
| 2018 | Mary Thoubaan (University of Exeter, UK), viva voce 3 Sep. 2018 |
| 2021 | Midhun Parakkal Unni (University of Exeter, UK), viva voce 2 Dec. 2021 |
Membership of professional bodies
| since 2010 | Member of the London Mathematical Society |
| since 2014 | Fellow of the Higher Education Academy |
| since 2019 | Member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Dynamical Systems Activity Group |
