Edinburgh University - School of Mathematics - Coralia Cartis

Since 2007, I have been a (permanent) lecturer (tenured assistant professor) in the School of Mathematics at Edinburgh University.

Previous employment

2006 - 2007: Research Scientist in Numerical Analysis (permanent post), STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Numerical Analysis Group, CSE Department, Oxfordshire, UK.

2004 - 2006: EPSRC Postdoctoral Researcher, PI: Dr Raphael Hauser, Numerical Analysis Group, Oxford University.

2005: PhD in Mathematics, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: Prof Michael J.D. Powell, FRS.
1999: Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, University of Cambridge.
1998: BSc in Mathematics, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Associate Member of NAXYS, The Namur Research Centre on Complex Systems (2010--present)
Visiting Scientist at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Numerical Analysis Group (2007--present)

Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis, Second Place, IMA, UK, 2005. (Awarded for my PhD research)
Churchill College Pochobradsky Scholarship, University of Cambridge. (Fully-funded PhD place)
Shell Centenary Scholarship, University of Cambridge. (Fully-funded Part III place)

Optimal Newton-type algorithms for large-scale nonlinear optimization, EPSRC EP/I028854/1 (PI), 2011 - 2013.
Royal Society International Joint Project (PI), 2010 - 2012.
Development of parallel search algorithms, EPSRC EP/F01130X/1 (coPI), 2007 - 2009.
Other grant income: NAIS (one year of postdoc time, PI), Bridging the Gaps grants (PI, with UoE GeoScience and with UoE Engineering), CASE Studentship (co-PI, with Selex Galileo and J Tanner), MAXIMATHS (PI, Parameter estimation for climate modelling), Maxwell Institute (Cucker Colloquium and Workshop), ICMS (SPARS'11), etc.