Education

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Université catholique de Louvain, March 1998.
• Other academic interests include philosophy and criminology but somehow I never happened to take the exams.

Positions held

• Marie Curie fellowship from the European Community (program Improving Human potential) at the Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay), 2001-2003. The project's title is "Existence and regularity of minimal sets".
• Post-doctoral position from the European TMR network in harmonic analysis at the Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay), 2001.
• Temporary lecturer at Rice University, Texas, Spring 2000.
• EPSRC post-doctoral fellowship at University College London, 1998-2000.

Research interest: Geometric measure theory

• rectifiable currents, stationary varifolds, minimal sets
• flat chains and flat cochains, homology and cohomology
• monotonicity, regularity, Lipschitz graph approximation, excess decay
• Gauss-Green theorem, non absolutely convergent integrals

Invited lectures

• CARTEMI meeting (Ischia, Italy, 1996): Topologies for the space of BV integrable functions in Rⁿ
• Geometry-Analysis seminar (Rice University, 1997): About BV dual
• CARTEMI meeting (Italy, 1998): About BV dual
• Colloquium lecture (University College London, 1998): Calibrations and functions of bounded variation
• Colloquium lecture (Aberdeen University, 1999): Size minimizing integral currents
• Harmonic analysis seminar (Orsay, 2000): Sur le problème de Plateau
• Geometry-Analysis seminar (Rice University, 2000): Monotonicity and the regularity of measures
• ICMS meeting "Progess in PDE" (Edinburgh, 2001): Nearly flat almost monotone measures are big pieces of Lipschitz graphs
• Geometry-analysis seminar (Rice University, 2001): Size minimization and approximating problems
• Analysis seminar (University of Houston, 2001): Size minimization and approximating problems
• Prairie analysis seminar (Kansas State University, 2001): Nearly flat almost monotone measures are big pieces of Lipschitz graphs

Teaching experience

• Assistant (1993-98) at the Université catholique de Louvain. I taught problem sessions for the following classes:
  • elementary mathematics (freshmen, economics)
  • several variables (sophomore, economics)
  • linear algebra, calculus, conics and quadrics (freshmen, chemistry and biology)
  • several variables, ODE (freshmen, engineering)
  • Lebesgue's integral and differential forms (sophomore, engineering)
  • numerical analysis, icluding Matlab (freshmen, mathematics and physics)
  • Lebesgue's and Kurzweil's integral, pointwise and uniform convergence, series of functions, differential forms, one complex variable (sophomore, mathematics)
  • topology and measure theory
• temporary lecturer (1998) at Rice University. I taught two classes at this occasion:
  • a graduate class: Introduction to second order linear and non-linear elliptic PDE
  • a freshmen class: Calculus and its applications
• finally I also gave some series of lectures on the following topics:
  • regularity of edges in image segmentation (after A. Bonnet), Université catholique de Louvain, 1997, 5 lectures
  • Allard's regularity Theorem, Rice University, 1999, 6 lectures
  • Une introduction aux courants entiers et aux problèmes de Plateau, Université de Paris-Sud, 2001, 7 lectures

Languages skills

• French is my native language!
• I'm fluent in English
• I love and used to speak Italian...

Some passport information

• Born on September 6th, 1971 in Etterbeek (Brussels), Belgium.
• Citizenship: Belgian (like them, see also my own documented list in the Elsewhere section).