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.
In August 2023, I was awarded a Veni grant from the NWO (Dutch Research Council) with my project abbreviated "MetaMathBio".
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 Analysis of PDEs in the Netherlands and I serve in the board of the national NDNS+ cluster to represent TU Delft. I amd also a member of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee of DIAM and Delft Young Academy.
Upcoming scientific events:
Collective movement and pattern formation: Biology, modelling and analysis, 27-30 July, 2026, ICMS, Edinburgh, UK (invited talk).
Wave-Ned 2026: Conference on Analysis, Modeling and Numerics of Waves, 26-28 August 2026, TU Delft, The Netherlands (co-organiser of the minisymposium MS19: From Wave Turbulence to Kinetic Theory).
Gradient Flows Face-to-Face 6 meets Transformers in Ulm, 14-18 September, 2026, University of Ulm, Germany.
Group leader in the Junior Trimester Program "Renewal Equations, PDEs and non-equilibrium systems in biological modelling", 17 January - 16 April, 2027, HIM, Bonn, Germany.
Workshop 2: Nonlocal Interaction Models during the programme New Trends in Nonlinear Diffusions, 19-23 July, 2027, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore (invited talk).
Recent news:
July 2026
I was awarded an IDEA League Fellowship.
N. Tassi (Granada) visited me for a week at TU Delft.
May 2026
Outreach: I gave an outreach talk "One equation, many worlds: from bacteria to opinions" during the Mathfest in Utrecht.
"On a class of nonlinear BGK-type kinetic equations with density dependent collision rates," (together with J. Evans and D. Morris) is published in Journal of Functional Analysis.
February 2026
H. Kim (KAUST) visited me for 4 days at TU Delft.
January 2026
Accepted paper: "On a class of nonlinear BGK-type kinetic equations with density dependent collision rates," (together with J. Evans and D. Morris) is accepted for publication in Journal of Functional Analysis.
Best poster prize: V. Freingruber won the best poster prize with her poster "Ecological interactions and spatial dynamics in microbial aggregates: A novel modelling framework" during the workshop Modelling Diffusive Systems 2026: Theory & Applications at ESI, Vienna.
December 2025
New preprint: "On the existence of solutions to the multi-species Landau equation" (together with J. Junné and R. Winter) is available on arXiv.
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.
Research visit: I was visiting the Isaac Newton Institute Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge for the INI Retreats Programme.
November 2025
A. Gárriz (U. Granada) & I will lead a research group during the HIM Junior Trismester Program: Renewal Equations, PDEs and non-equilibrium systems in biological modelling at the Hausdorf Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany between January 18 - April 16, 2027.
I was a committee member of the PhD defence of S. 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.
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