Curriculum vitae
Personal data
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Academic Positions
| 2016– | Research Scientist at the RICAM institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Linz (Austria). |
| 2012–2015 | Postdoc position at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal (Saudi Arabia). |
| 2006–2012 | PhD and Postdoc positions at the RICAM institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Linz (Austria). |
Academic Qualifications
| 2006–2011 |
PhD degree in mathematics.
RISC institute of the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
PhD thesis: Minimal families of curves on surfaces. |
| 1997–2004 | MSc in computer science. University of Amsterdam MSc thesis: The Hyperelliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem. |
Publications
Awards
| 2020–2024 | FWF–Project P33003, "Trajectories of motions". |
| 2018 |
CGTA Best Paper Award for
"Kinematic generation of Darboux cyclides" by N. Lubbes and J. Schicho. |
| 2015 | CONICET-BECAS-POSTDOC Fellowship. Unfortunately, I had to decline this awarded two-year fellowship in Buenos Aires (Argentinia). |
Teaching
| 2017–2022 |
Applied Mathematics I and II at
FH-Wels.
Lecture: 5 ECTS, 7 semesters. Skills practice: 2.5 ECTS, 9 semesters. |
| 2011 | Lecturer during a project week for advanced pre-university students at Kefermarkt in Austria. |
Selection of Talks
| 2021 |
CGTA,
Gozd Martuljek (Slovenia).
Talk: "Projective isomorphisms between rational surfaces". |
| 2021 |
RACG,
Braunschweig (Germany).
Invited talk: "The shapes of surfaces that contain many circles". |
| 2018 |
Rigidity and Flexibility of Geometric Structures,
Vienna (Austria).
Talk: "On an invariant of linkages". |
| 2018 |
Curves and Surfaces,
Arcachon (France).
Talk: "Webs of rational curves on surfaces". |
| 2017 |
MEGA,
Nice (France).
Talk: "Surfaces containing two circles through a general point in higher dimensions". |
| 2017 |
CGTA,
Pilsen (Czech Republic).
Talk: "Hexagonal webs of circles". |
| 2014 |
ACA,
New York (USA).
Invited talk: "Circles on surfaces". |
Organization
| 2021 | Organizer of the kinematics minisymposium at CGTA 2021. |
| 2011 | Main organizer of the last week of a three week research program called "Algebraic versus Analytic Geometry: minimal model program" at ESI, Vienna (Austria). |
Other
| Computing |
C++, Java, Python, SQL, Sage, Mathematica, LaTeX.
Source code at GitHub Programming experience in industry |
| Languages | Dutch (native), English (fluent), German (proficient). |