Background

Positions and education

Sept. 2016 –: Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
July 2009 – Aug. 2016: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Oct. 2003 – June 2009: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Sept. 2002 – Sept. 2003: Senior Research Associate with the Magma group, School of Mathematics, University of Sydney
Jan. 2001 – Aug. 2002: PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia
Sept. 2000 – Dec. 2000: MSRI Postdoctoral Fellow
July 2000 – Sept. 2000: Clay Mathematics Institute Liftoff Mathematician at Utrecht and MSRI, Berkeley
Sept. 1999 – Aug. 2000: NWO researcher at Utrecht University, under supervision of Dr. F. Beukers
6 Oct. 1999: Defence of PhD thesis Chabauty methods and covering techniques applied to generalised Fermat equations
July 1995 – July 1999: AIO (graduate student) at Leiden University, working on the generalised Fermat equation, under supervision of Prof. Dr. R. Tijdeman and Dr. F. Beukers
Sept. 1990 – July 1995: Undergraduate mathematics at Leiden University, resulting in the master’s thesis Generalization of the ABC-conjecture, under supervision of Prof. Dr. R. Tijdeman

Stieltjes Prize 1999 for the best thesis within the Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics.
C.J. Kok Prize 1999, Leiden University, for research on covering techniques with respect to Chabauty’s method and its applications.