EDUCATION
02/2004 – 07/2004: Fulbright Scholarship, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Project: Numerical Algorithms for the simulation of the flow of incompressible viscous fluids in deformable domains
Advisor: Prof. Roland Glowinski
03/2004: PhD in Mathematics, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
US Equivalency: Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics
Thesis: Linear and nonlinear stability methods with applications to fluid-dynamics
Advisor: Prof. Mariarosaria Padula
04/2003-07/2003: Marie Curie Training Fellowship, University of Surrey, Guilford, UK
Project: Weakly nonlinear stability analysis for a three-dimensional layer of viscous incompressible fluid with a free capillary surface for the pattern selection in Faraday waves
Advisor: Prof. Anne Skeldon
07/2000: Laurea (BS+MS) in Engineering of Materials, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Thesis: Energy methods for nonlinear stability of compressible and incompressible fluid flows
Advisor: Prof. Mariarosaria Padula
APPOINTMENTS
04/2023-present: Dean
Maine College of Engineering and Computing, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
01/2023-present: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maine College of Engineering and Computing University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
01/2023-03/2023: Dean
College of Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
01/2023-08/2023: Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
09/2021-12/2022: Affiliated Doctoral Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
01/2021-12/2022: Affiliated Doctoral Faculty of Biological, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
01/2021-12/2022: Associate Dean for Research
College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
11/2020- 12/2022: Core Member, MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics (MUIDSI)
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
08/2018-01/2023: Professor of Mathematics
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
08/2017- 01/2023: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
06/2014-07/2017: LABEX Chair of Mathematics
LABEX IRMIA, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
02/2012-08/2020: Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology
Purdue School of Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
01/2012-06/2014: Co-Director of iM2CS – Institute of Mathematical Modeling and Computational Science
Purdue School of Science, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA
08/2010-12/2016: Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Purdue School of Science, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA
08/2007-07/2010: Assistant Professor of Mathematics
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
10/2004-07/2007: Research Assistant Professor of Mathematics
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA