Biography

I graduated as an "Ingenieur in Mathematics" at the Technical University of Eindhoven in 1988 and I got my PhD from the University of Twente in 1992. In 1993/94 I was awarded a NATO Research Fellowship to do research at the University of California Santa Cruz and the MSRI in Berkeley. In the following year 1994/95, I was a Research Fellow at the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. In 1995, I started at the University of Surrey and I am currently a Reader in the Department of Mathematics.

Research Interests

• Hamiltonian systems (ODEs and PDEs) with perturbations like dissipation and/or forcing;
• Dissipation induced instability;
• Stability and instability of travelling waves and front solutions, for example for (semi)-kinks in Josephson junctions or ionization waves in gas discharges;
• Multi-symplectic systems.

Further details can be found on my personal web page.

Publications

A full list of my publications and pre-prints can be found on my  personal web page.

Teaching

In 2009/10 I am lecturing the following modules:

• MAT2041 Pure 1 (Real Analysis 2)
  for level 2 Mathematical Studies students in Spring 2010.
• MATM010 Hamiltonian Dynamics
  for level M MMath students in Spring 2010.

Some suggestions for final year projects or literature reviews can be found here.

Departmental Duties

Coordinator Mathematics PhD Studies Programme,
Phd Admissions Tutor,
IT Liaison,
Deputy Head of Department.