Biography:Rui Loja Fernandes
Rui Loja Fernandes | |
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Born | July 20, 1965 Coimbra, Portugal |
Nationality | Portuguese |
Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Thesis | Completely Integrable bi-Hamiltonian Systems (1994) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Olver |
Rui António Loja Fernandes (July 20, 1965, Coimbra) is a Portuguese mathematician working in the United States .
Education and career
Fernandes obtained a bachelor's degree in Physics Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) in 1988. He then moved to the USA and earned a master's degree in Mathematics in 1991 and a PhD in Mathematics in 1994 from the University of Minnesota. His PhD thesis was entitled "Completely Integrable bi-Hamiltonian Systems" and has been written under the supervision of Peter J. Olver.[1]
In 1994 he returned to Instituto Superior Técnico, where he worked first as Assistant Professor (1994-2002), and then as Associated Professor (2003-2007) and Full Professor (2007-2012).[2][3]
In 2012 he moved back to the USA and since then he is the Lois M. Lackner Professor of Mathematics at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[4] In 2016, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to the study of Poisson geometry and Lie algebroids, and for service to the mathematical community."[5]
Research
Fernandes research focusses on differential geometry, more precisely on Poisson and symplectic geometry. Among his most well-known results are a solution to the long-standing problem of describing the obstructions to the integrability of Lie algebroids[6] and a new geometric proof of Conn's linearization theorem,[7] both written in collaboration with Marius Crainic.
He is the author of more than 40 research papers in peer-reviewed journals[8] and has supervised 6 PhD students as of 2021.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rui Loja Fernandes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Rui Loja Fernandes| DMIST". https://www.math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~rfern/index.php.
- ↑ "CAMGSD — Members" (in en). https://camgsd.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/membros/.
- ↑ "Rui Loja Fernandes". illinois.edu. http://www.math.illinois.edu/~ruiloja/. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieves 2017-08-09.
- ↑ Crainic, Marius; Fernandes, Rui (2003-03-01). "Integrability of Lie brackets" (in en). Annals of Mathematics 157 (2): 575–620. doi:10.4007/annals.2003.157.575. ISSN 0003-486X. http://annals.math.princeton.edu/2003/157-2/p06.
- ↑ Crainic, Marius; Fernandes, Rui Loja (2011-03-01). "A geometric approach to Conn's linearization theorem" (in en). Annals of Mathematics 173 (2): 1121–1139. doi:10.4007/annals.2011.173.2.14. ISSN 0003-486X. http://annals.math.princeton.edu/2011/173-2/p14.
- ↑ "Rui Loja Fernandes". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E7vFQykAAAAJ&hl=en.
External links
- Rui Loja Fernandes publications indexed by Google Scholar
- "Rui Loja Fernandes". ulisboa.pt. https://www.math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~rfern/. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
- "Rui Loja Fernandes". illinois.edu. https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~ruiloja/index.php.