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Personal background

I am originally from Geneva in Switzerland, not a bad place, but a bit overrated according to this world-wide city rankings. Here is my curriculum vitae [.pdf]. As a highlight, I was selected in 1995 for the international Leslie Fox Prize in numerical analysis and I was awarded a second prize, previous prizewinners include people like L.N. Trefethen, N.J. Higham, J.W. Demmel, and A.M. Stuart.

Positions held

• Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences (AMCS), The University of Iowa, January 2020-present.
• Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa, July 2011-January 2020 (except July 2017-June 2018).
• Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa, July 2009-present.
• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa, July 2003-June 2009.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa, August 1998-June 2003.
• Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Computer Science and Minnesota Supercomputer Institute (MSI), University of Minnesota, with Prof. Yousef Saad and Prof. Jim Chelikowsky, February 1997-January 1998.
• Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Computer Science and Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC), University of Minnesota, with Prof. Linda Petzold, October 1994-January 1997.
• Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Geneva, Switzerland, with Prof. Ernst Hairer and Prof. Gerhard Wanner, October 1989-September 1994.

Education

I hold a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics of the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Here is the list of my degrees obtained at this same University:

• Ph.D. Mathematics, 1994.
• M.Sc. Mathematics, 1990.
• M.Sc. Computer Science, 1990.
• B.Sc. Computer Science, 1989.