• NCTS Center Scientist (2025)

• NCTS Young Theoretical Scientists Award (2023) 

• Doctoral Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (2012)

• Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, Ministry of Education of Taiwan (2012)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

6. Global continuation of stable periodic orbits in systems of competing predators

    SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 25, no. 3, p.1697-1725 (2026/07/10)

    with Kevin Church, Olivier Hénot, Phillipo Lappicy, and Nicola Vassena

    We develop a continuation technique to obtain global families of stable periodic orbits, delimited by transcritical bifurcations at both ends. We formulate a zero-finding problem whose zeros correspond to families of periodic orbits. We then define a Newton-like fixed-point operator and establish its contraction near a numerically computed approximation of the family. To verify the contraction, we derive sufficient conditions expressed as inequalities on the norms of the fixed-point operator and involving the numerical approximation. These inequalities are then rigorously checked by the computer via interval arithmetic. To show the efficacy of our approach, we prove the existence of global families in an ecosystem with Holling’s type II functional response and thereby solve a stable connection problem proposed by Butler and Waltman in [J. Math. Biol., 12 (1981), pp. 295–310]. Our method does not rely on restricting the choice of parameters and is applicable to many other systems that numerically exhibit global families. 

5. Hybrid Bifurcations: Periodicity from Eliminating a Line of Equilibria

    Mathematische Annalen, 391, 6373-6399 (2025/01/07) 

    with Alejandro López-Nieto, Phillipo Lappicy, Nicola Vassena, and Hannes Stuke 

    We describe a new mechanism that triggers periodic orbits in smooth dynamical systems. To this end, we introduce the concept of hybrid bifurcations, which consists of a bifurcation without parameters and a classical bifurcation. Our main result classifies the hybrid bifurcation when a line of equilibria with an exchange point of normal stability vanishes. We showcase the efficacy of our approach by proving stable periodic coexistent solutions in an ecosystem of two competing predators with Holling’s type II functional response. 

4. Symmetry Groupoids for Pattern-Selective Feedback Stabilization of the Chafee–Infante Equation

    Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 33, 073141 (2023/07/18) 

　(Special Issue: Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems) 

    with Isabelle Schneider 

Reaction–diffusion equations are ubiquitous in various scientific domains and their patterns represent a fascinating area of investigation. However, many of these patterns are unstable and, therefore, challenging to observe. To overcome this limitation, we present new noninvasive feedback controls based on symmetry groupoids. As a concrete example, we employ these controls to selectively stabilize unstable equilibria of the Chafee–Infante equation under Dirichlet boundary conditions on the interval. Unlike conventional reflection-based control schemes, our approach incorporates additional symmetries that enable us to design new convolution controls for stabilization. By demonstrating the efficacy of our method, we provide a new tool for investigating and controlling systems with unstable patterns, with potential implications for a wide range of scientific disciplines. 

3. Pattern-Selective Feedback Stabilization of Ginzburg-Landau Spiral Waves

    Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 246, no. 2-3, 631-658 (2022/10/15) 

    with Isabelle Schneider and  Babette de Wolff

The complex Ginzburg-Landau equation serves as a paradigm of pattern formation and the existence and stability properties of Ginzburg-Landau m-armed spiral waves have been investigated extensively. However, many multi-armed spiral waves are unstable and thereby rarely visible in experiments and numerical simulations. In this article we selectively stabilize certain significant classes of unstable spiral waves within circular and spherical geometries. As a result, stable spiral waves with an arbitrary number of arms are obtained for the first time. Our tool for stabilization is the symmetry-breaking control triple method, which is an equivariant generalization of the widely applied Pyragas control to the setting of PDEs.

2. Ginzburg-Landau Patterns in Circular and Spherical Geometries: Vortices, Spirals, and Attractors 

    SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 20, no. 4, p.1959-1984 (2021/10/11)

with Phillipo Lappicy

This paper consists of three results on pattern formation of Ginzburg-Landau m-armed vortex solutions and spiral waves in circular and spherical geometries. First, we completely describe the global bifurcation diagram of vortex equilibria. Second, we prove persistence of all bifurcation curves under perturbations of parameters, which yields the existence of spiral waves for the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. Third, we explicitly construct the global attractor of m-armed vortex solutions. Our main tool is a new shooting method that allows us to prove hyperbolicity of vortex equilibria in the invariant subspace of vortex solutions.

1. Ginzburg-Landau Spiral Waves in Circular and Spherical Geometries

    SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 53, no. 1, p.1004-1028 (2021/02/16)

We prove the existence of m-armed spiral wave solutions for the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in the circular and spherical geometries. We establish a new global bifurcation approach and generalize the results of existence for rigidly-rotating spiral waves. Moreover, we prove the existence of two new patterns: frozen spirals in the circular and spherical geometries, and 2-tip spirals in the spherical geometry.