Curriculum vitae

Positions:

• Professor, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, since 2013
• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, 2003-2013
• BC Regional Scientific Director, MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence, 2008-2011
• Associate Scientific Director, MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence, 2003-2008
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick, 2000-2003
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University, 1997-2000

Education:

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 1997
• B.Math., Joint Honours Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 1991
• Math Genealogy entry 

Research grants and other funding:

• NSERC Discovery Grant, 2001-present
• North American Maple Syrup Council Research Fund, 2011-2012, 2015-2018
• MITACS NCE Research Grant (biofilm deformation and detachment), 2010-2012
• MITACS NCE Research Grant (fuel cell modelling), 2001-2008
• SFU President's Research Grant, 2003
• CFI Innovation Fund Grant, Computational Fuel Cell Dynamics Lab, 2002
• CFI New Opportunities Fund Grant, Scientific Computation and Visualization Lab (UNB), 2002
• NSERC Equipment Grant (UNB), 2000

Awards and fellowships:

• Richard G. Haas Distinguished Service Award, North American Maple Syrup Council, 2017
• Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2015
• CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize, 2014
• NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award, 2011-2014
• Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2007-2008
• Industrial Outreach Prize, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, 2000
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence, 1999-2000
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, 1997-1999
• Doctoral Dissertation Award, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, 1998

Professional activities:

• Associate Editor: Journal of Engineering Mathematics (2013-), Mathematics in Science and Industry (2018-), Networks and Heterogeneous Media (2022-)
• Society memberships: AMS, CAIMS, ECMI, InterPore, and SIAM
• Committee Member (2022-2025) and Applied Math Section Chair (2024-2025), Mathematics and Statistics Evaluation Group (1508), NSERC
• Board of Directors, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, 2001-2007
• Conference organization:
  • CAIMS Annual Conference, Kelowna, BC, June 2022
  • Structured Mesh Methods for Moving Interface and Free Boundary Problems and Applications, BIRS-Hangzhou Workshop, Hangzhou, China, October 9-14, 2022
  • Steering Committee, ICIAM 2011: International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Vancouver, BC, July 18-22, 2011
  • Workshop on Fluid Motion Driven by Immersed Structures: Analysis, Computation and Applications, Fields Institute, Toronto, ON, August 9-13, 2010. Special issue of CiCP
  • PIMS-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop, Calgary, AB, May 25-29, 2009
  • MITACS Annual Conference, Fredericton, NB, May 31-June 5, 2009
  • CMS-MITACS Joint Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, MB, May 30-June 4, 2007
  • CAIMS-MITACS Joint Annual Conference, York University, June 15-20, 2006
• Refereed articles for: Appl Numer Math,  Atmos Env,  BIT,  Bull Math Bio,  Commun Comput Phys,  Comput Meth Appl Mech Eng,  Comput Fluids,  Comput Math Appl,  Fuel Cells,  IMA J Appl Math,  IMA J Numer Anal,  Int J CFD,  Int J Numer Meth Biomed Eng,  Int J Numer Meth Fluids,  J Comput Phys,  J Energy Resour Tech,  J Eng Math,  J Env Chem Eng,  J Exp Bio,  J Heat Transf,  J Math Anal Appl,  J Roy Soc Interface,  Math Biosci Eng,  Math Comput Model,  Numer Math,  Phys Fluids,  Phys Rev E,  PNAS,  SIAM J Appl Math,  SIAM J Sci Comput,  Theor Comput Fluid Dyn,  Transp Porous Media 
• Erdös number: 3

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