Work / Education

2015 -> , Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

  • Visiting professor, 09.2015 - 12.2016

2006 - 2015, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (If you are curious, here is a video)

    • Granted tenure in 2012 (emulated tenure due to residency laws).

    • Associate Professor, 2011 - 2015

    • Assistant professor, 2006 - 2011

08.2004 - 08.2005, Max Plank Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany

    • Posdoctoral Visitor

2003 - 2006, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    • Hildebrandt Assistant Professor

    • Interacted mostly with the late Juha Heinonen and the analysis group.

    • Spent the 2004-5 academic year on leave at the MPIM.

1997 - 2003, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

1996 - 1997, School of Mathematical Sciences, Adelaide University, Australia

    • PhD program (was enrolled for 18 months before going to the USA).

    • Advisor: Alan Carey

    • Topic: Fractional quantum hall effect. Rigorous techniques using functional analysis, loop groups, boson-fermion correspondence and so on.

1992 - 1995, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Queensland, Australia

  • BSc (3 yrs) + honours (1yr). (Mathematics and a lot of physics)

  • Advisor: Tony Bracken

  • Thesis: "Quasi-exactly solvable models in quantum mechanics". These models are ones in which a finite part of the spectrum can be found exactly. The Hamiltonians are built from differential operators whose Lie algebra has a finite-dimensional representation. Here is a short review article by Peter Olver. The field has grown and is still active.