Brief CV


Born in April 1983
Romanian
Married, two children (born in 2016 and 2018)

Professional history:

  • 2019 -                 Associate professor, Mathematics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

  • 2015 - 2019:      Assistant professor (tenured), Mathematics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

  • 2014 - 2015:      Instructor (post-doctoral fellow), Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, USA.

  • 2013 - 2014:      Member in the School of Mathematics (post-doctoral fellow), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA.

  • 2012 - 2013:      Instructor (post-doctoral fellow), Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, USA.

  • 2011 - 2012:      Chapman fellow in mathematics (post-doctoral fellow), Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK.

  • Long term visits

  • Sep. - Nov. 2015:      Research Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, USA.

                                       Program: New Challenges in PDE. Deterministic Dynamics and Randomness in High and Infinite Dimensional Systems

  • July - Aug. 2014:       Visiting post-doctoral member, Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany.

                                       Program: Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations

  • Education

  • 2011:       Ph.D. in Mathematics, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France (thesis advisor: Patrick Gérard).

  • 2009:       M.Sc. in Mathematics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania.

  • 2008:       M.Sc. in Mathematics, "Analyse, Arithmétique et Géométrie" Programme, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France.

  • 2007:       M.Sc. in Mathematics, Superior Normal School in Bucharest (SNSB), Romania.

  • 2006:       B.Sc. in Mathematics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania.

  • Research funding

  • EPSRC New Investigator Award EP/S033157/1, March 2020-August 2022

  • International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) support for organising a 5-day conference (with Z. Brzezniak, I. Gyongy, T. Oh), 2019

  • Collaborative grant "Research in Groups" at ICMS in Edinburgh (with A. Bényi and T. Oh), April 2016

  • Financial support for organising a 5-day conference (with S. Friedlander, N. Glatt-Holtz, T. Oh, G. Richards): ICMS, Edinburgh Mathematical Society Research

    Support Fund, Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust Learning and Research Support Fund, 2016