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Curriculum Vitæ CURRICULUM VITÆ Fernando Manuel Pestana da Costa Lisboa, Portugal September 24, 2021 CURRICULUM VITÆ Name: Fernando Manuel Pestana da Costa Date and place of birth: August 10, 1962; Lisboa, Portugal ID Number: 06076588 Databases: Ci^enciaID 1610-6502-E6C5 MR author ID: 331651 ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9072-797X Scopus ID: 14827970300 Web of Science ResearcherID: K-5942-2013 zbMATH author ID: da-costa.fernando-pestana Internet address: http://www.math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/%7Efcosta/ Electronic mail address: [email protected] [email protected] Personal information: married, three sons and one daughter. 1 Contents 1 Summary 5 2 Academic education 8 2.1 Academic degrees and titles . 8 2.2 Complementary Education . 8 3 Academic Career 8 3.1 Career positions . 8 3.2 Temporary positions . 9 4 Research Center 9 5 Scientific Publications 9 5.1 Articles in International Journals . 10 5.1.1 In Mathematics . 10 5.1.2 In Physical Chemistry . 13 5.2 Articles in Book Chapters . 13 5.2.1 In Mathematics . 13 5.3 Articles in Conference Proceedings . 13 5.3.1 In Mathematics . 13 5.3.2 In Physical Chemistry . 14 5.3.3 In Teaching . 14 5.4 Advanced Texts/Theses . 14 6 Scientific Communications 15 6.1 Oral Communications in Mathematics . 15 6.2 Poster Communications . 20 6.2.1 In Mathematics . 20 6.2.2 In Physical Chemistry . 20 7 Comunications About Teaching 20 7.1 Oral Communications . 20 7.2 Poster Communications . 21 7.3 Debate Panels . 22 8 Research Projects 22 8.1 Principal Researcher . 22 8.2 Team Member . 23 9 Scholarships and Studentships 23 10 Research Supervision 24 10.1 PhD Supervision . 24 10.2 MSc Supervision . 24 2 11 Participation in Juries 25 11.1 Juries of Academic Degrees . 25 11.1.1 Agrega¸c~ao Juries . 25 11.1.2 PhD Juries . 25 11.1.3 MSc Juries . 26 11.1.4 Public Examination of Skills . 27 11.2 Selection Juries . 27 12 Scientific Events 28 12.1 Organization . 28 12.2 Participation . 29 13 Events about Teaching 31 13.1 Organization . 31 13.2 Participation . 32 14 Other Events 33 14.1 Participation . 33 15 Editorial Activities 33 15.1 Editorial Commitees . 33 15.2 Editorial Councils . 33 15.3 Refereeing in International Publications . 33 15.4 Scientific Reviews . 34 15.5 Translations of Scientific Articles . 34 16 Didactical Materials in Mathematics 34 16.1 Authorship of Books . 34 16.2 Edition of Books . 35 16.3 Translation of Books . 35 16.4 Self-published texts . 35 16.5 Other Materials . 36 16.6 Outros Didactical Texts . 36 17 Teaching Activities 36 17.1 Coordination of Formal Programmes . 36 17.2 Coordination of Informal Programmes . 37 17.3 Teaching in Formal Programmes . 37 17.3.1 African Institute for Mathematical Sciences { South Africa 37 17.3.2 Heriot-Watt University . 37 17.3.3 Instituto Superior T´ecnico,Universidade T´ecnicade Lisboa 38 17.3.4 National University of Laos . 41 17.3.5 Universidade Aberta . 41 17.4 Teaching in Informal Courses and Programmes . 45 17.4.1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India . 45 17.4.2 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India . 45 17.4.3 Instituto Superior T´ecnico,Universidade T´ecnicade Lisboa 45 17.4.4 National University of Laos, Laos . 46 17.4.5 Silpakorn University, Thailand . 46 17.4.6 Sociedade Portuguesa de Matem´atica . 46 3 17.4.7 Universidade Aberta . 47 17.4.8 Universidade de Evora´ . 47 17.4.9 University of Savannakhet, Laos . 47 17.5 Sabatical Leaves . 48 18 Academic Administration 48 18.1 Executive Positions . 48 18.2 Representative Positions . 48 18.3 Consultative Positions . 49 18.4 Task Groups . 49 19 Cultural Extension 50 19.1 Popularization of Mathematics and General Interest . 50 19.1.1 Texts . 50 19.1.2 Oral presentations . 50 19.2 Other cultural extension activities . 51 19.2.1 Written journalistic interventions . 51 19.2.2 Written interventions: interviews . 52 19.2.3 Oral Interventions . 53 19.2.4 Other Interventions . 53 20 Scientific and Professional Societies 53 20.1 Governing Bodies . 53 20.2 Consultive Bodies . 54 20.3 Membership . 54 21 National Relevant Duties 54 4 1 Summary Academic profile Agrega¸c~ao (Univ. Aberta, 2009) and PhD (Heriot-Watt Univ., 1993) in Mathe- matics; MSc (IST, 1989) in Applied Mathematics; BSc (IST, 1985) in Chemical Engineering. Since July 2019 I am Full Professor of Mathematics at Universi- dade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal. Main research contributions My main areas of research have been in mathematical modelling of coagulation- fragmentation phenomena and of liquid crystal devices using differential equa- tions tools, mainly qualitative methods. My most recent published work in coagulation type equations was on a model of silicosis disease (see [1], [4], and [5] in section 5.1.1). Previous works include the study of existence and uniqueness of density conserving solutions to coagulation-fragmentation equations (reference [26] in section 5.1.1) where it was first proved that a strong enough fragmentation can prevent gelation to occur. Other contributions to the study of the gelation phenomena include the proof of the occurrence of instantaneous gelation for strong enough coagulation (reference [28] in section 5.1.1) and the proposal of a finite dimensional model for gelation (reference [22] in section 5.1.1). I published the first studies on the extension to coagulation-fragmentation systems of the kind of phase tran- sition behaviour known to occur in Becker-D¨oringequations (see [23] and [27] in section 5.1.1). Somewhat unexpected, in two studies of coagulation models a relation with nonautonomous predator-prey systems (reference [13] in section 5.1.1) and with competition Lotka-Volterra systems (reference [11] in section 5.1.1) was identified. A number of papers have focused on self-similar solutions in coagulation systems modelling sub-monolayer deposition (see [6, 8, 16, 19] in section 5.1.1, and [3] in section 5.3.1) using qualitative theory methods (invariant regions, centre manifolds, differential inequalities) and asymptotic evaluation of integrals to prove results about the existence and rate of convergence to simi- larity profiles. Qualitative theory methods seem not to have been used before in this context. My work on modelling of liquid crystal devices include the study of twist Freedericksz transitions in a liquid crystal cell with pre-twist boundary condi- tions (see [3], [7] and [14] in section 5.1.1), the study of the bifurcation structure of solutions in a bistable nematic cell (reference [17] in section 5.1.1), and the first rigorous proof of uniqueness of the bifurcating branch of solutions in the Freedericksz transition in a nematic cell with weak anchoring (reference [15] in section 5.1.1). Most of my research work has been done in collaboration with co-workers (see the relevant references.) Publication data 30 refereed papers in journals (including 2 in Physical Chemistry) 1 chapter in refereed international book 5 Conferences More than 30 invited oral presentations in international events, including 1 at the Institut Henri Poincar´e (Paris), 1 at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Edinburgh), and 2 at the Mathematisches Fors- chungsinstitut (Oberwolfach). Co-organizer of 8 international conferences, including 1 at the James Clerk Maxwell Centre (Edinburgh). Editorial work Editor-in-chief of the European Mathematical Society Magazine (formerly Newsletter) from July 2020. Member of the Editorial Board of the European Mathematical Society Newsletter from January 2017 to June 2020. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Biomath- ematics and Biostatistics (2010). Co-editor of the special number of Physica D dedicated to coagulation- fragmentation processes (vol. 222, 1996). Referee in 16 international scientific journals Reviewer of the Mathematical Reviews{MathSciNet since 2008. Main teaching related activities Volunteer Lecturer of the International Mathematical Union in the Na- tional University of Laos, Vientiane, Laos, in January and February 2018, where I taught the course Ordinary Differential Equations, of the MSc programme in Applied Mathematics. Lecturer of the short course Exact solutions of smoothing PDEs at the SEAMS School \PDEs for Image Processing: Theory and Numerics", Sil- pakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, (January 2018) Visitor to the National University of Laos, Vientiane, Laos, between De- cember 2016 and July 2017, supported by an Erasmus Mundus grant, where I taught several free courses to university staff (Differential equa- tions in population models, Harmonic Analysis and applications, Bifur- cation problems in liquid crystal cells, and First order partial differential equations: method of characteristics and weak solutions.) Lecturer of the short course Infinite-dimensional dynamical systems and coagulation-fragmentation equations at the CIMPA School \Introduction to the mathematical analysis of differential equations and real-life applica- tions", Centre Internationale de Math´ematiquesPures et Apliqu´ees,Nice, France / National University of Laos, Vientiane, Laos (January 2017) 6 Visiting Academic at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa (April 2016, November 2018 and 2019, and February 2021), responsible for the courses Differential Equations in Pop- ulation Models (2016) and Differential Equations (2018, 2019, 2021). Associate professor at Univ. Aberta 2005{2019 and Full Professor from 2019, having taught 29 different courses, mainly in Mathematical Analy- sis, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations, but also some in Statis- tics, Stochastic Processes, Geometry, etc., and including some Differential Equations courses at the MSc and PhD levels. Auxiliary professor at I.S.T. between 1993 and 2004, having taught 8 different course on Mathematical Analysis and Differential Equations. Author of the book Equa¸c~oesDiferenciais Ordin´arias (Lisbon, IST Press, 2001), an introductory text on ODE, in portuguese.
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