Education

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Ph.D.  Dynamical Systems, 1995
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy and
Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Thesis: Critical and singular dynamics in the Lorenz equations.
Supervisors:  Jacob Palis and Marcelo Viana

M.Sc. Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematics Education, 1989
Marlboro College, USA.
Thesis: The unfolding of the concept of number.
Supervisor: Joe Mazur 

B.Sc. Mathematics, 1987
Warwick University, UK.

Academic Positions

Research Scientist/Senior Research Scientist
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy. 
2009 – present. 

Lecturer-Senior Lecturer-Reader
Mathematics Department, Imperial College London
2000- 2009

Lecturer
Mathematics Department, UMIST, Manchester
2000

Research Associate-Lecturer
Mathematics Department, University of Warwick
1995 – 1999 

Research Associate
Laboratoire de Probabilite, Université de Paris VI
1995 

Teaching Assistant
Marlboro College, Vermont, USA.
1987 – 1990 

Short Term Visiting Positions

Penn State University, USA, 2008 

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,  2007

Soochow University, China, 2007

Penn State University, USA, 2006

IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005

University of Barcelona, Spain, 2005

University of Kyoto, Japan 2004

Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil.  2002

Centre de Physique Theorique (CPT), Marseille, France 2001

IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2000

University of Uppsala, Sweden 1998