Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

Professor of Applied Mathematics School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney (January 2015 – Present)

Chair, SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems (2026 – Present)
Editorial Board Member, SIAM Review (2025 – Present)
Editorial Board Member, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (2015 – Present)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience (2011 – 2020)
Editorial Board Member, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-S (2008 – 2017)
Portal Editor-in-Chief: DSWeb (2008 – 2009)

J.D. Crawford Prize (2017) – Awarded biennially by SIAM for outstanding work on nonlinear science, specifically for breakthrough insights highlighting the importance of canards and mixed-mode oscillations.
SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2017) – For research providing a comprehensive study of three-timescale neural problems.
ARC Future Fellowship (2012 – 2016) – For developing geometric methods in mathematical physiology.

ARC Discovery Project (DP260100522): Geometric methods for rate-induced tipping (Lead CI).
ARC Discovery Project (DP250101953): Determining endocrine-mediated plastic responses to transient heat waves (CI)
ARC Discovery Project (DP220101817): A coordinate-independent theory for multi time-scale dynamical systems (Lead CI).
ARC Discovery Project (DP200102130): The geometry of shock waves in reaction-nonlinear diffusion models (Lead CI).
ARC Discovery Project (DP180103022): A geometric theory for non-standard relaxation oscillators (Lead CI).
ARC Discovery Project (DP110102775): A geometric theory for travelling waves in advection-reaction-diffusion models (Lead CI).

Associate Professor, The University of Sydney (2012 – 2014)
Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney (2008 – 2011)
Lecturer, The University of Sydney (2005 – 2007)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University, USA (2002 – 2004)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (2000 – 2001)

PhD (Dr. techn.) in Applied Mathematics Vienna University of Technology, Austria (1998)
MSc (Dipl.-Ing.) in Applied Mathematics Vienna University of Technology, Austria (1996)