Grants-Fellowships
Distinctions-Qualifications

• 2023 Simons Foundation International Fellowship (SFI), USA.

Invited professor to the Summer workshop  on Geometric and Field Theoretic Methods for Astro-, Geo-, and Bio-Phyiscal Fluids, Aspen Center for Physics - ACP (2 weeks)

Astrophysical, geophysical, and biophysical fluids are rapidly developing, high-impact fields with a wealth of new data, computational challenges, and conceptual puzzles. Outstanding problems in these fields include investigating new fluid analogues for gravitational systems and quantum fields, modeling atmospheres of tidally-locked exoplanets, understanding climate response to active tracers, predicting the scale and strength of jets, vortices, and magnetic islands in geophysical and astrophysical fluids, and understanding the interaction between flow and structure in bio-locomotion. Such "real-universe" systems can reside in parameter regimes (eg. strong rotation, stratification, viscosity, or magnetization) that allow analytical control. They are thus amenable to quantitatively accurate applications of modern geometric and field-theoretic techniques, such as asymptotic methods for path integrals, renormalization group and effective field theory approaches, generalized symmetries, holographiç "gauge/gravity" duality, geometric phases, and topologically protected excitations. Many of these field-theoretic techniques have seen significant recent advances, presenting opportunities to develop their applications to fluid systems. In return, specific fluid systems can also provide a context for new formal developments in classical, quantum, and statistical field theories. Hence, the goal of this workshop is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scientists studying astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics, climate science, theoretical fluid and plasma physics, biological physics, turbulence, and field theory to form new connections that will drive these fields forward.

• 2020  Lluis Santaló Visiting fellowship,  CRM,  Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain
  (4 December 2019- 4 March 2020)

• 2019 Fields Institute Senior Travel Grant - Invited speaker.
  Borders in Public Health and Mathematical Epidemiology
  Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada - October 21 - 25
  Scientific committee: Julien Arino (Univ. of Manitoba), Jacques Bélair (Univ. de Montreal), Jane Heffernan (York University), James Watmough (University of New Brunswick)
  
  In Mathematical Epidemiology, infectious diseases are studied using mathematical and computational tools, and mainly focus on infectious disease characteristics within localized populations and geographic regions. However, infectious diseases are not confined to small regions, and rather cross borders, affecting multiple populations, jurisdictions, and governments. In this workshop we will address the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases across borders, at the intersection of mathematical epidemiology and public health. The workshop will provide an important platform for knowledge translation and discussion, enabling (1) the identification of key questions in public health policy that need to be addressed where borders play an important role, and (2) the identification of mathematical models and methods that can be utilized to address key questions, and inform/advance public health policy. The workshop will bring together Canadian and international mathematical epidemiologists and public health decision-makers that work at the forefront of national and international infectious disease research. An important component of this workshop is the inclusion of infectious disease modellers that work in local, federal, and global health organizations, which will allow for important discussion on key issues to do with borders at these regional levels.

• 2019 ICIAM Senior Travel Grant Fellowship. ICAM2019 Conference, Valencia  & Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (1 month)

• 2019 SIAM Senior Travel Grant, Applications of Dynamical Systems - DS19,  Snow Bird, Utah, USA

• 2016 École CentraleSupelec Visiting Professor fellowhip,  Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  October-December 2016  (2 months)
  Invited by Catherine Bonnet.

• 2012 Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK.  Invited Professor (1 month)
  Thematic program: Topological Dynamics in the Physical and Biological Sciences.
  Scientific committee: K. Bajer, T. Kephart, Y. Kimura, K. Moffatt, A. Stasiak.

• 2011 Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bangalore, India - Invited researcher (1 mounth)

Invited by Seema Nanda.

• 2008 Centre Emile Borel, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris - Invited researcher.
  Thematic program  : Singularités en mécanique : Formation, propagation et description microscopiques.
  Scientific committee: Jens Eggers, Christophe Josserand, Laure Saint-Raymond.
  Invited by Laure Saint-Raymond.

The program is devoted to the study of “singularities” in mechanics, which are all phenomena involving strong focusing or rapid oscillations, leading to some non-smooth behaviour in some continuum description.

• 2006 Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Institute of Mathematics - Invited professor. (4 months)
  Niteroi, Brazil

• 2005-2006 IMPA Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• 2005 Centre Emile Borel, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris - Invited researcher.
  Thematic program  : Time at work.
  Scientific committee: V. Baladi, J. Bricmont, P. Collet, F. Ledrappier, C. Liverani.
  Invited by J. Bricmont.

• 2003-2005 Fields Institute-McMaster University Postodoctoral Fellowship,
  Thematic Program  on Differential Equations (Hamiltonian PDE, Kinetic theory)

Scientific committee : L. Bronsard, W. Craig, N. Ercolani, R. McCann, C. Sulem.

https://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/03-04/pde/index.html

Fields Institute/McMaster University, Canada

The thematic program on PDE will be focused principally on problems that stem from questions in applied mathematics and in mathematical physics. The particular choice of subject matter is dictated by a choice of active topics of research that are of particular current interest, and the mathematical taste of the Scientific Committee. As mentioned in the introduction, we are planning the fall semester of the program to be focused on elliptic and parabolic systems of partial differential equations arising in mathematical theories of super-conductivity and of phase transition phenomena in the physics of materials. The winter semester will be focused on Hamiltonian PDE, in particular hyperbolic equations and nonlinear dispersive evolution equations that arise in mathematical physics and in continuum mechanics, and on the equations of kinetic theory that arise in the study of statistical mechanics and of wave turbulence.

• Nov.-Dec. 2000, August-Sept. 2001, August-Sept. 2002, August 2003 CAPES France-Brazil Cooperation grant.
  Dept. of Mathematics, Universidade Federal do Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil.
  Invited by Hildeberto Cabral.

• 1997 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-Italy),  Research grant in Mathematics, Center for Applied Mathematics/LadHyX, École Polytechnique,  Palaiseau, France (1 year)

• 1996 École Polytechnique, Research Assistant position (A.T.R.), LadHyX, Palaiseau, France

• 1995 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-Italy),  Research grant in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics Program, University of Chicago, USA (1 year)

• 1991-1994 Research Scholarship, University of Chicago, USA

• 1988-1991 University of Chicago Merit Scholarship, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, USA