I was born on 16.07.1980 in Uster, Switzerland

Current & previous positions

Aug 09 – Jan 13: Postdoctoral Research Position, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Apr 09 – Jul 09: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ETH Zürich

Apr 05 – Mar 09: Teaching Assistant, ETH Zürich

Oct 02 – Mar 05: Tutor and Junior Assistant, ETH Zürich

Longer research visits

Jan 10 - Mar 10: Three Month Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick

May 09 – Jul 09: Trimester Geometric Flows and Operators, Centro De Giorgi, Pisa

Oct 06 – Feb 07: Four Month Research Visit Ricci flow equations, FU Berlin and MPI Golm

Education

April 2009: Ph.D. in Mathematics, ETH Zürich, Thesis: Ricci flow coupled with harmonic map flow, Advisor: Prof. Michael Struwe, Co-Advisors: Prof. Tom Ilmanen, Prof. Peter Topping

April 2005: Diploma in Mathematics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Thesis: Differential Harnack inequalities for parabolic equations, Advisor: Prof. Michael Struwe

February 2000: Matura, KZO Filialabteilung Glattal, Switzerland, „Typus C“: main focus on mathematics and nature sciences

Grants and Awards

Aug 09 - Jan 13: Research Grant from Italian FIRB Ideas “Analysis and Beyond”

Jan 10 - Mar 10: Postdoctoral Research Grant of the Leverhulme Trust (GB)

Oct 05 – Mar 09: Graduate Research Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation

November 2005: ETH Medal for outstanding Diploma Thesis

April 2005: Diploma in Mathematics with distinction

Other

I am a member of the American Mathematical Society

I have been a referee for “Calculus of Variations and PDE”

Publications, Talks & Teaching

See the corresponding pages!