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Professor Nicolas Dirr

Professor Nicolas Dirr

Personal Chair

Email
dirrnp@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)29 2087 0920
Campuses
Abacws, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Research Interests:
My interests comprise nonlinear Partial Differential Equations with stochastic coefficients and related scaling limits, in particular as mathematical models for phase transition and nucleation (often evolution equations for interface motion), and (stochastic) homogenisation of such equations and their relation to interacting particle systems.
More precisely:

  • Interfaces in heterogeneous and random media and associated nonlinear PDEs
  • Homogenization
  • Interacting Stochastic Processes and their scaling limits
  • Nonlinear PDEs and Stochastic Processes

Research Group:
Mathematical Analysis Research Group

Biography

Education

  • Certificate of Advance Study in Mathematics, Cambridge, 1996
  • Diploma in Mathematics: University of Bonn, Germany, 1998
  • PhD  University of Leipzig, Germany, 2002

Career Overview

  • 1998 - 2002: Research Associate, University of Leipzig and Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig.
  • 2002 - 2004: Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin (partially supported by a Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD)
  • 2004 - 2007: Junior Research Group Leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig.
  • 2007 - March 2011: RCUK fellow/Lecturer, University of Bath
  • April 2011 -July 2016: Reader in Mathematical Analysis, School of Mathematics, University of Cardiff
  • August 2016 - present: Professor,  School of Mathematics, University of Cardiff

Publications

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Teaching

Modules:

  • MA3012 Ordinary Differential Equations
  • MA2004 Series and Transforms

Past PhD students

  • Peter Embacher (jointly with Johannes Zimmer)
  • Vaios Laschos (University of Bath, jointly with Johannes Zimmer)

Current PhD projects: If you are interested in doing a PhD in an area close to my research please contact me directly.

Research Interests:

My interests comprise nonlinear Partial Differential Equations with stochastic coefficients and related scaling limits, in particular as mathematical models for phase transition and nucleation (often evolution equations for interface motion), and (stochastic) homogenisation of such equations and their relation to interacting particle systems.
More precisely:

  • Interfaces in heterogeneous and random media and associated nonlinear PDEs
  • Homogenization
  • Interacting Stochastic Processes and their scaling limits
  • Nonlinear PDEs and Stochastic Processes

Funding: Leverhulme, LMS, EPSRC, Royal Society

PhD projects: Please contact me directly for current PhD projects

Supervision

  • Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
  • Scaling limits of interacting particle systems

Past projects