Contact Details
E-mail: h.yoldas[AT]tudelft.nl, havva.yoldas[AT]gmail.com
Address: Office: HB 05.060, Building 36, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, Netherlands.
Affiliation: Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology.
Hi, welcome to my professional webpage!
I am a tenured assistant professor and Delft Technology Fellow at the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (DIAM), TU Delft. My main research area is the analysis of partial differential equations arising from the applied sciences.
Before joining TU Delft in October 2022, I was a postdoc at University Lyon 1 (2019-2021) and University of Vienna (2021-2022). I obtained my PhD jointly from the University of Granada and the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics in October 2019. My PhD supervisor was José A. Cañizo. You can find a version of my CV here.
In August 2023, I was awarded a Veni grant (ENW Science domain) from the NWO (Dutch Research Council) with my project abbreviated "MetaMathBio". The project duration is from February 2024 to February 2028.
I co-organise the seminar in PDE and Applications at TU Delft. Moreover, I am one of the founding members of the Special Activity Group (SAG) on PDEs in the Netherlands and I recently joined the board of the NDNS+ cluster. I also serve as a member of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee of DIAM and Delft Young Academy.
Upcoming scientific events:
INI Retreat, 14-20 December, 2025, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.
Nonlinear diffusion models: analytical & numerical challenges, 19 - 23 January 2026, Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
General Mathematics Colloquium, 4 February 2026, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (invited talk).
Kick-off meeting of the Special Activity Group (SAG) on Analysis and PDEs, 10 February, 2026, University of Leiden (co-organiser).
The 15th AIMS Conference, 6-10 July, 2026, Athens, Greece (invited talk).
Collective movement and pattern formation: Biology, modelling and analysis, 27-30 July, 2026, ICMS, Edinburgh, UK (invited talk).
Recent news:
December 2025
New preprint:"Ecological interactions and spatial dynamics in microbial aggregates: A novel modelling framework" (together with V. Freingruber and R. Gonzalez-Cabaleiro) is available on arXiv.
November 2025
Our group application for the HIM Junior Trismester Program: Renewal Equations, PDEs and non-equilibrium systems in biological modelling was successful. The JTP will take place at the Hausdorf Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany between January 18 - April 16, 2027.
I was a committee member of the PhD defence of Serena della Corte who successfully obtained her PhD from TU Delft on 11 November 2025 with her thesis about Hamilton-Jacobi equations and large deviation theory.
October 2025
The Autumn School: From microscopic dynamics to continuum limits that I co-organised together with D. Avitabile (ACDC), M. Chirilus-Bruckner (Leiden) and R. Merks (Leiden) at Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation was a success!
Outreach: we joined the "Weekend van de Wetenschap" as TU Delft, with various activities from knots to fractals, and hyberbolic surfaces.
September 2025
I visited Prof. M. Iacobelli at the FIM - Institute for Mathematical Research, ETH Zurich for a month.
July 2025
Our project entitled "Kinetic study of CO₂ adsorption on Lewatit VP OC 1065 under Direct Air Capture conditions" has been accepted for funding from the Climate Action Research and Education Seed of TU Delft. Main applicant is Dr. T. Nijssen (Mechanical Engineering) and I serve as the co-applicant.
Older news can be found here.