Professional

Research interest

My current research is on solving and deducing properties of first-order conservation partial differential equations by using random graphs and branching processes. This fits into my broader interest of representing/solving partial differential equations using stochastic processes.

Publications

Below you can find my preprints and publications.

Preprints

Gelation and localization in multicomponent coagulation with multiplicative kernel through branching processes (with Ivan Kryven and Camillo Schenone). Link
Branching process representation for Burgers-like nonlinear partial differential equations (with Ivan Kryven). Link
Higher order moments for SPDE with monotone nonlinearities (with Manuel Gnann and Mark Veraar). Link

Employment

I am currently a third year PhD Student at Utrecht University. My supervisor is Dr. Ivan Kryven. Previously, I was a student in applied mathematics and applied physics at Delft University of Technology where I wrote my master’s thesis under Prof. Mark Veraar and Dr. Manuel Gnann.

Teaching

I have been involved as a student assistant in several courses:

Mathematical statistical mechanics, masters course (2023/2024)
Analysis, first year course (2022/2023, 2023/2024)
Calculus and linear algebra, first year course (2022/2023)
Modelling with ODEs and PDEs, third year course (2022/2023)
Statistics, second year course (2021/2022)
Introduction to numerical analysis (2021/2022)
Introduction to probability and statistics, first year course (2021)

Tools

I think it is important in the digital age to be more open about the tools you use, so that you may help others. There are a lot of great digital tools out there to make life easier for you, but you may not know about them! While most of my work as a mathematician still happens with pen and paper, I mostly use (and highly recommend!) the following tools:

PARA method for information management. Link
LaTeX in VSCode with VIM and Copilot plugins. For more, see the great blogs by Gilles Castel and Leandro Chiarni.
Git during the writing process. This is particularly useful if you are making big modifications to a paper and may want to go back a version.
Mathematica for most simple on-paper computations.

Personal

If you are interested what I do or think outside of mathematics, please see below.

Interesting Websites/Blogs

Once in a while I run into fascinating websites and blogs that I think are worth sharing. I try to add articles that contain a good measure of surprise and new ideas. I think such articles are usually the most informing.

Bartosz Ciechanowski This writer has insane posts, with extremely cool animations.
Beating the averages This is an essay containing some interesting ideas, in particular the Blub paradox. I think the Blub paradox not only applies to programming languages, but also to mathematical tools and theory.

Books

I have always liked reading both fiction and non-fiction. I am currently reading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. My current book recommendation is The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb.

Games

I have played a lot of videogames growing up and occasionally still do. I am on a replay of Cyberpunk 2077 every now and then. My current game recommendation is Elden Ring.

Movies

My current movie recommendation is Dune: Part 2.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler - Albert Einstein (allegedly)