Academic Positions:

2019 -	Professor, The University of Edinburgh, UK
	Personal Chair of Dispersive Equations
2015 - 2019	Reader, The University of Edinburgh, UK
2013 - 2018	Chancellor's Fellow, The University of Edinburgh, UK
2010 - 2013	Assistant Professor, Princeton University, USA
2007 - 2010	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Canada

Visiting Positions:

May-Jun. 2022	CRM-Simons professor, Centre de recherches mathématiques, Montréal, Canada
	Program: Thematic Program in Probability and PDEs
July 2014	Visiting member, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Germany
	Program: Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
August 2011	Visiting scholar, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
March 2010	Professeur invité, Université Paris-Sud 11 (Orsay), France
Apr.-Jun. 2009	Visiting postdoctoral fellow, Institut Henri Poincaré, France
	Program: Nonlinear Waves and Dispersion

Education:

2007	Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
2004	M.S. in Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
1998	B.A., Magna cum laude, in Mathematics (best student in mathematics)
	Minor in Computer Science, New York University, USA

Grants and Awards:

• EPSRC mathematical sciences small grant, 2024: £43,423.
• Whitehead prize, London Mathematical Society, 2022.   Citation by LMS
• Nomination for 2022 student-led Teaching Awards, in the category "Supervisor of the Year", The University of Edinburgh, 2022
• CRM-Simons Professorship, 2020 (for the Thematic Program in Probability and PDEs in 2021 - postponed to 2022 due to the pandemic)
• ERC Consolidator Grant, 2019: €1,920,968 (for 5 years) - 9 people in mathematics (2 in the UK)
• University nominee in physical sciences and engineering for the 2020 Blavatnik Awards, the University of Edinburgh, UK, 2019
  (The New York Academy of Sciences did not approve a request for an age limit exception based on illness over several years)
• ICMS support for a 5-day workshop, 2019: £20,500 (with Zdzisław Brzeźniak, Oana Pocovnicu, István Gyöngy)
• Carnegie Research Assessor, 2018 -
• Nomination for 2017 student-led Teaching Awards, in the category "Best Personal Tutor Award", The University of Edinburgh, 2017
• Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust Learning and Research Support Fund, 2016: £600 (with O. Pocovnicu, G. Richards)
• Edinburgh Mathematical Society Research Support Fund, 2016: £610 (with O. Pocovnicu, G. Richards)
• ICMS support for a 5-day workshop, 2016: £16,500 (with S. Friedlander, N. Glatt-Holtz, O. Pocovnicu, G. Richards)
• Research in Groups (with Á. Bényi, O. Pocovnicu), ICMS, Edinburgh, 2016: £2,500
• Nomination for 2015 student-led Teaching Awards, in the category "Best Overall Teacher Award", The University of Edinburgh, 2015
• Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, Sep. 2014 -
• ERC Starting Grant, 2014: €1,007,811 (for 5 years) - 13 people in mathematics (2 in the UK)
• EPSRC Early Career fellowship in Mathematics, 2014: £846,551 (for 5 years, declined in order to accept ERC Starting Grant)
• ICMS support for a 5-day workshop, 2014: £5,000 (with M. Dindoš)
• Chancellor's Fellowship, The University of Edinburgh, 2013 - 2018
• Simons Foundation: Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians, 2013: $35,000 (declined due to relocation to the United Kingdom)
• AMS-Simons Travel Grant, 2011-2013: $4,000
• Morris Kline Award, Department of Mathematics, New York University, 1998 (given to the best graduating student in mathematics)
• Member of Phi Beta Kappa, New York University, 1998
• University Honor Scholar, New York University, 1998

Awards given to my Ph.D. students (for their Ph.D. studies):

• Ruoyuan Liu, Sir William Darling Memorial Prize 2023. (This is a university-wide prize for pre-eminence in sport and academia)
• Andreia Chapouto, Edinburgh Mathematical Society PhD Thesis prize 2023. (This is a biannual prize given to the best thesis in Scotland for the previous two years)
• Leonardo Tolomeo, Edinburgh Mathematical Society PhD Thesis prize 2021. (This is a biannual prize given to the best thesis in Scotland for the previous two years)

Period: March 31, 2023   Location: Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh   Website: See here.

Period: July 07, 2022   Location: School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham   Website: See here.

Period: June 20 - 24, 2022   Location: ICMS, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh   Website: See here.

Period: June 17, 2022   Location: School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh   Website: See here.

Period: June 11 - 14, 2018   Location: University of St. Andrews, UK   Website: See here.

Period: June 05 - 09, 2017   Location: ICMS, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh   Website: See here.

Period: July 27 - 31, 2015   Location: ICMS, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh   Website: See here.