Professor Daniel Lesnic

Professor Daniel Lesnic

Profile

British Inverse Problems Society

Publications by Daniel Lesnic are available at: https://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/applied/staff.dir/lesnic/papers.html

Academic Positions

  • Lecturer A, University of Leeds, School of Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics, 1995-1998.
  • Lecturer B, University of Leeds, School of Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics, 1998-2002.
  • Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds, School of Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics, 2002-2005.
  • Reader in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, School of Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics, 2005-2008.
  • Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, School of Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics, 2008-.

Professional honours/awards:

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA, Aug. - Dec. 2000.
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A & M University, College Station, USA, Jan. - May 2001.
  • Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Delaware, Delaware, USA, and Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA, May-June 2001.
  • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA), 2010 - 2015.
  • Plaquette awarded ”For long time scientific and organizational contributions to the Fifth International Conference on Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation”, Antalya, Turkey, 2010.
  • Visiting Fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, November-December 2011.

Grant reviwer: 

US National Science Foundation (NSF) (1); EPSRC (10); Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (12); Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) (2); Belgium Concerted Reseach Actions (GOA) (1); UK Royal Society (5); Research Foundation - Flanders (Belgium) (FWO) (2); KTN-EPSRC Industrial Case Awards (7); Royal Society of Edinburgh (4); Leverhulme Trust (1); King AbdulAziz University (Saudi Arabia) (11); Xi’an Jiaotong - Liverpool University Research Development Fund (1); United Arab Emirates University (UAE) (1); National Center for Science Technology Evaluation (Kazakhstan) (22); Young Researchers Grant at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) (1); National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (Vietnam) (1); Research Council of Norway (RCN) (3).

External Academic:

  • External Academic Panel Member for the Review/Validation of the MSc programmes in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Greenwich, UK, 03/11/2009
  • Member of the Committee for Evaluation Qualifications at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia, January 2014
  • Evaluation of Scientific Works of a Member of Yarmouk University, Jordan, June 2014
  • External Assessor for a Promotion Exercise of a Member of International Islamic University Malaysia, 2015
  • External Assessor for a Promotion to Associate Professor of a Member of Nottingham Trent University, 2017
  • School of Mathematics Panel of Reviewers University of Leeds, 2017-

Refereeing for Journals

Zentralblatt MATH (148), Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (110), Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements (44), International Journal of Computer Mathematics (19), Physics Letters A (18), Inverse Problems (20), Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (16), Mathematical Reviews (15), Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems (18), Journal of Engineering Mathematics (11), IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (12), Applied Mathematical Modelling (13), Journal of Aerosol Science (11), Computers and Mathematics with Applications (13), Applied Mathematics and Computation (11), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (10), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (8), Numerical Algorithms (8), Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (8), Applied Numerical Mathematics (6), Physica D (5), Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (5), Applied Mathematics Letters (5), Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (5), CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science (4), Physica Scripta (4), Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (4), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (4), Journal of Computational Physics (4), Applicable Analysis (4), Mathematical and Computer Modelling (3), SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (3), International Journal of Thermal Science (Revue Generale Thermique) (3), Nonlinear Analysis Series A: Theory, Methods & Applications (2), Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics (2), Physica A (2), Kuwait Journal of Science (3), Nonlinear Dynamics (2), Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (2), International Journal of Science and Technology (2), International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (2), Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (2), Journal of Applied Mathematics & Computing (2), Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations (2), Zeitschrif fur Naturforschung A - Physical Sciences (2), Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (2), International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow (2),  International Journal of Transport Phenomena (1), Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1), Numerical Heat Transfer (1), Computational Mechanics (1), Soochow Journal of Mathematics (1), Chemical Engineering Science (1), Journal of Fluid Mechanics (1), Physics Review Letters (1), Journal of the Franklin Institute (1), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (1), Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (1), ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics (1), International Journal of Solids and Structures (1), SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (1), International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (1), International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer (1), BIT Numerical Mathematics (1), Journal of Applied & Computational Mathematics (1), Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics (1), Mathematics in Industry Case Studies (1), International Journal of Applied Mechanics (1), Journal of Scientific Computing (1) Sarajevo Journal of Mathematics (1), Journal of Advanced Research in Differential Equations (1), Journal of Zhejiang University - Science A (1), Thermal Science (1), Acta Mathematica Vietnamica (1), Turkish Journal of Physics (1), European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids (1), Mechanics Research Communications (1), Computers & Fluids (1), Computional and Mathematical Methods in Medicine (1), European Journal of Applied Mathematics (1), Proceedings of the Royal Society A (1), Journal of Mathematical Physics (1), Applications and Applied Mathematics (1), Computational Physics Communications (1), Journal of Mathematics, Control Science and Applications (1), Advances in Computational Mathematics (1), International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science & Mechanics (1), Journal of Integral Equations and Applications (1), Electronic Journal of Differential Equations (1), ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (1), Handbook of Porous Media (1 chapter).

Refereeing of conference proceedings:

2nd Int.Conf. on Inverse Problems in Engineering, .USA, 1996 (4); 3rd Int.Conf. on Inverse Problems in Engineering, France, 1999 (2);  4th Int.Conf. on Inverse Problems in Engineering, Brazil, 2002 (4); 5th Int.Conf. on Inverse Problems in Engineering, UK, 2005 (25); 1st UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, Leeds, 1997 (3); EUROTHERM Conference, France, 2001 (5); 4th International Conference on Inverse Problems: Identification, Design and Control, Russia, 2004 (3); 3rd World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography, Canada, 2002 (1); Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, Brazil, 2002 (2); World Multi-Conferences on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, USA, 2005, 2007, 2008 (7); 12th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis: ISAS, USA, 2006 (2); 5th International Conference on Inverse Problems: Identification, Design and Control, Russia, 2007 (2); 6th Int.Conf. on Inverse Problems in Engineering, France, 2008 (5); Int.Symp. on Inverse Problems in Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Poland, 2009 (3); 6th Int.Conf. of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Greece, 2009 (1); ECCOMAS Int.Conf. IPM 2011 on Inverse Problems in Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Poland, 2011 (2); 7th Int.Conf. on Inverse Problems in Engineering, USA, 2011 (2); 4th Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, Albi, France, 2013 (3); 9th UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, Aberdeen, UK, 2013 (2); 8th Int.Conf. on Inverse Problems in Engineering, Poland, 2014 (3); 6th Int.Conf. on ”Finite Difference Methods: Theory and Applications”, Bulgaria, 2014 (1); 10th UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, Brighton, UK, 2015 (2); 38th BEM/MRM Conference, New Forest, UK, 2015 (2);  International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Greece, 2016 (1); 11th UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, Nottingham, UK, 2017 (2).

(SDDU) Training workshops attended and involved

  1. Role of the Personal Tutor 05/06/96
  2. Confidence in Presentation Skills 15/07/96
  3. Delivering Effective Presentations 25/03/97
  4. Writing Proposals for Grant Funding 02/07/97
  5. Writing Up Your Research for Publication 03/07/97
  6. Vocal and Pronunciation Skills for 08/07/97
  7. Speakers of English as a Second Language
  8. Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PCLTHE) 1996-97
  9. Achieving Effective Interpersonal Communication 06/01/98
  10. Barriers and Breakdowns in Communication 19/02/98
  11. Gender and Culture in Interpersonal Communication 19/03/98
  12. Dealing with Difficult People 06/05/98
  13. Undergraduate Admissions Interviews 16/09/98
  14. Mentors’ Meeting 30/09/98
  15. EPSRC Visit 13/01/99
  16. Time Management for Academic and Research Staff 15/01/99
  17. Promoting Student Welfare: Grant and Loan Regulations and Financial Support for Students 21/04/99
  18. Staff Review and Development Scheme for Academic and Academic-Related Staff 07/07/99
  19. Undergraduate Admission Interviewers 16/09/99
  20. Authoring on the Web using Micromedia Dreamweaver Attain: (1) Introduction 13/04/00
  21. Authoring on the Web using Micromedia Dreamweaver Attain: (2) Creating Interactive Material 04/05/00
  22. Transparency Review 18/06/01
  23. Module Enrolment and Registration 21/09/01
  24. The Role of the Internal Examiner 29/11/01
  25. Postgraduate Research Tutors’ Forum 05/07/02
  26. Knowledge Transfer Forum 27/11/02
  27. Advisory Session ORS Procedures 15/01/03
  28. Knowledge Transfer Forum: What do Businesses learn from Universities? 11/02/04
  29. Talking about Teaching: 1. Reducing Assessement whilst Maintaining the Learning 07/03/05
  30. Knowledge Transfer Forum: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships 13/04/05
  31. Using Course Design and Assessment to Deter Student Plagiarism 24/05/05
  32. Knowledge Transfer Forum: Consultancy and New Developments in Knowledge Transfer 07/12/05
  33. An Innovation Hub for the University of Leeds 08/03/06
  34. HE Innovation Fund V round 3 24/05/06
  35. Effective research Student Supervision: Update for Experienced Supervisors 25/05/06
  36. International Knowledge Transfer 12/12/06
  37. Workshop on Grant Application 08/05/07
  38. MAPS Faculty Strategic Partnership Workshop 17/05/07
  39. Knowledge Transfer & UK Research Councils 12/07/07
  40. Knowledge Transfer Network Presentations St.Catherine’s College, Oxford 30/11/09
  41. EKT Workshop - Making Research Work 01/02/08
  42. Welcome Meeting for Recently-appointed Professors 14/10/08
  43. FP7 Workshop: Information and Influence 29/01/09
  44. Innovation City Leeds (ICL) and Collaboration 18/02/09
  45. Marie Curie Individual Fellowships Workshop 17/04/09
  46. Enterprise & Innovation Day 27/04/0950&statusMessage=Profile+approved
  47. MaPS Enterprise & Knowledge Transfer Meetings 2007-10
  48. Biomimetics Grant Writing Workshop 02/06/09
  49. Introduction to NSF International Cooperation 03/06/09
  50. Funding Opportunities in Medical Engineering 24/11/09
  51. Using VLE to Detect and Deter Plagiarism 29/01/10
  52. How to Maximize the Impact of your Research 12/02/10
  53. Marie Curie Individual Fellowship and Reintegration Grant Information Event 03/03/10
  54. Fire Warden Training Course 11/05/10
  55. Leading & Managing: Strategic Thinking and Planning 18/05/10
  56. EPSRC Workshop - Pathways to Impact 07/07/10
  57. Professorial Cafe Academique - Challenges in Leading Research 07/07/10
  58. Professorial Cafe Academique - The Role of the Professoriate in Shaping Organizational Culture 07/10/10
  59. Teaching Students to Write Mathematics 12/05/11
  60. CiPEG Away Day - How to Increase Petroleum Industry Funding at Leeds 21/012/12
  61. Commercialisation Workshop 05/12/12
  62. The Knowledge Transfer Toolbox: Part 3 15/01/13
  63. What do I need to know about Open Access? 14/05/13
  64. Talking about Teaching: Peer Instruction and the Flipped Classroom 18/11/13
  65. Horizon 2020 25/11/13
  66. University of Leeds MOOC Forum 05/12/13
  67. Crowdfunding 04/02/14
  68. Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowships 26/03/14
  69. Supliers Easter Fair 08/04/14
  70. Royal Society Opportunities 08/04/14
  71. Fire Refresher Training 22/05/14
  72. Preparing a MSCA Individual Fellowship Application 04/06/14
  73. Newton Fund Day 02/02/15
  74. Getting Funding 2: What Funders Want? 02/03/15
  75. How the Media Can Help You on Your Route to Impact? 12/05/15
  76. Computational Science Meeting 29/06/15
  77. Equality and Diversity Essentials (passed with 97%) 02/09/16
  78. Personal Resilience and Professional Competence: Working with Change and Uncertainity 17/11/16
  79. Fast Track Your Impact 08/03/17
  80. Fire Warden Training Course Well Being, Safety and Health 22/03/17
  81. Developing Effective International Research Collaborations 28/03/17
  82. Personal Resilience and Professional Competence: Knowing your head and heart for effective decision making 19/06/17

Associate editor/editorial board of the following journals:

  1. Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, 2007-
  2. Mathematical Gazette of Romania, Series A, 2008-
  3. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 2009-
  4. International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 2009-
  5. Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems, 2011-
  6. WIT Transactions, 2011-

Guest editor for the following journals

  1. Measurement Science and Technology (with R.M.West), Vol.18, No.1, 2007
  2. Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (with A.Hasanov), Vol.15, No.7, 2007
  3. Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (with A.Hasanov), Vol.16, No.1, 2008
  4. Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (with A.Hasanov), Vol.18, No.1, 2010
  5. International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Vol.89, No.11, 2012
  6. Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (with A.Hasanov), Vol.22, No.1, 2014

Scientific committee member of learned societies

  1. National Olympiade in Romania, 1990
  2. UK Aersol Society, 1994-96
  3. CFD Center at Leeds, 1995-
  4. British Inverse Problems Society, 1996-
  5. Institute of Physics, 2000-
  6. British Nuclear Fuel Ltd Alliance, 2002-05
  7. London Mathematical Society (LMS), 2003-
  8. Portuguese Association of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics, 2004-07
  9. MAPS Enterprise Knowledge Transfer, 2005-08
  10. Literati Club, 2006-07
  11. Leeds Alumni Mentoring Network, 2007-
  12. IPNet: Inverse Problems Network, 2007-
  13. Inverse Problems International Association (IPIA), 2007-10
  14. Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) for Industrial Mathematics, 2007-14
  15. The Smith Institute, 2007-14
  16. International Society on Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (ISIPSE) (steering committee member), 2008-
  17. Centre for Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience (CiPEG) at Leeds University, 2008-
  18. Romanian Mathematical Society, 2008-
  19. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA), 2010-2016
  20. Multiphase Flow Group (MPG) at Leeds University, 2010-11
  21. Book ”Inverse Problems and Computational Mechanics”, Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2011
  22. Board of Governors of the International Conferences on Inverse Problems in Engineering, 2011
  23. Eurasian Association for Inverse Problems (EAIP) (steering committee member), 2014-
  24. Promotional College Member on Promotion Panels at the University of Leeds, 2013-
  25. Centre for Collaborative Nuclear Research (CCNR) at the University of Leeds, 2014-
  26. Energy Leeds Society, 2014-
  27. Review Committee of Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences, 2016-18

Conference organizer/ scientific committee member/ international scientific advisory board/ committee

  1. First UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, 1997, University of Leeds (Co-CHAIR)
  2. North British Workshop on Inverse Problems, 1997, University of Leeds (Co-CHAIR)
  3. EUROTHERM Seminar 68, France, 2001
  4. 4th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, Brazil, 2002
  5. Inverse Problems Workshops at the University of Leeds (CHAIR) 2002-03, 2005-06, 2010
  6. 4th-6th International Conferences on Inverse Problems: Identification, Design and Control, Russia 2003, 2007, 2010
  7. Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, Brazil, 2004, 2010
  8. 13th Inverse Problems in Engineering Seminar, USA 2004
  9. 5th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK (CHAIR), 2005
  10. Workshop on Inverse Modelling of Damage Detection, University of Cambridge, UK (CHAIR), 2005
  11. 6th Form Conference, University of Leeds (CHAIR) 2005-10
  12. Conference for Mathematics Teachers and Advisers, University of Leeds (CHAIR), 2005-16
  13. Boundary Element Techniques VIII, Italy 2007
  14. Workshop/Sandpit on Industrial Inverse Problems, University of Leeds (CHAIR), 2007-11
  15. 6th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, Dourdain, France, 2008
  16. 4th International Conference ”Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation”, Fethyie, Turkey 2008
  17. International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Mechanics of Structures and Materials, IPM2009, Poland, 2009
  18. 7th UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Nottingham, UK, 2009
  19. 32nd and 33rd International Conference on BEM/MRM, New Forest, UK, 2010-2011
  20. 5th International Conference ”Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation”, Antalya, Turkey (including committee member of the ”Young Scientist Award”), 2010
  21. Boundary Element Techniques XI, Germany 2010
  22. International Conference on Inverse Problems, Hong Kong 2010
  23. Joint International Workshop on Trefftz Method VI and Method of Fundamental Solutions II, Taiwan, 2011
  24. Eight UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Leeds, UK (CHAIR), 2011
  25. 7th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2011
  26. 2nd and 4th International Conferences on Inverse Problems in Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Poland 2011, 2017
  27. 5th International Conference on ”Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering (ACOMEN 2011)”, University of Liege, Belgium, 2011
  28. 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling, Technologies and Applications, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 2011
  29. 12th UK Heat Transfer Conference University of Leeds, UK, 2011
  30. 34th International Conference on BEM/MRM, University of Split, Croatia, 2012
  31. 6th International Conference ”Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation”, Antalya, Turkey (CO-CHAIR), 2012
  32. 4th Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, Albi, France, 2013
  33. Nineth UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Aberdeen, UK, 2013
  34. 35th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, New Forest, UK, 2013
  35. 5th International Conference on Applications of Porous Media, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2013
  36. 36th International Conference Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, Dalian, China, 2013
  37. LMS Meeting on ”Sparse Regularization for Inverse Problems” Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK (CO-CHAIR), 2014
  38. 8th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, Cracow, Poland, 2014
  39. 7th International Conference ”Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation”, Fethyie, Turkey (CO-CHAIR), 2014
  40. 37th and 38th International Conference on BEM/MRM, New Forest, UK2014,  2015
  41. LMS Meeting on ”Hybrid and Multi-modal Imaging”, University of Manchester, UK (CO-CHAIR), 2014
  42. LMS Meeting on ”Tomographic Reconstructions from Boundary Data”, University of Leeds, UK (CO-CHAIR), 2014
  43. LMS Meeting on ”Machine Learning in Inverse Problems, University College London, UK (CO-CHAIR), 2015
  44. LMS Meeting on ”Inverse Problems in Wave Propagation”, University of Cardiff, UK (CO-CHAIR), 2015
  45. Tenth UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Brighton, UK, 2015
  46. Joint International Conference on Trefftz Method VII and Method of Fundamental Solutions III, Zhejian University, China, 2015
  47. 10th International Skorobohatko Mathematical Conference (ISMC-2015), Drohobych, Ukraine, 2015
  48. International Workshop on Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, 2015
  49. 8th and 9th International Conferences ”Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation”, Fethyie, Turkey (including 2018 CHAIR of the ”Young Scientist Award”) 2016, 2018
  50. LMS Meeting on ”Large-scale and Nonlinear Inverse Problems”, University of Edinburgh, UK (CO-CHAIR), 2015
  51. LMS Meeting on ”BIG Inverse Problems” University of Nottingham, UK (CO-CHAIR), 2016
  52. 39th, 40th and 41st International Conference on BEM/MRM, Siena, Italy, and New Forest, UK 2016-18
  53. Workshop on ”Uncertainty Quantification in Inverse Problems”, Novosibirsk, Russia (CO-CHAIR), 2016
  54. LMS Meeting on ”Inverse Problems in Statistics”, University of Bath, UK (CO-CHAIR), 2016
  55. Eleventh UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, Nottingham Trent University, UK, 2017
  56. Joint International Conference on Trefftz Method VIII and Method of Fundamental Solutions IV, Poznan University of Technology, Poland, 2017
  57. Workshop on ”Inverse Problems for the Heat Equation”, University of Leeds, UK (CHAIR), 2017
  58. 9th International Conference PICOF’18, Inverse Problems, Control and Optimization, Tunisia, 2018

Conferences’ session chair

  1. First UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, 1997, University of Leeds
  2. North British Workshop on Inverse Problems at the University of Leeds, 1997
  3. 4th International Conference in Inverse Problems in Engineering, Brazil, 2002
  4. Inverse Problems Workshop at the University of Leeds, 2003
  5. 4th International Conference on Inverse Problems: Identification, Design and Control, Russia, 2003
  6. Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, Brazil, 2004
  7. 13th Inverse Problems in Engineering Seminar, USA 2004
  8. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Developments in Boundary Element Methods for Acoustics and Electromagnetics, University of Reading, UK, 2004
  9. 5th International Conference in Inverse Problems in Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK (Chair), 2005
  10. Workshop on Inverse Modelling of Damage Detection, University of Cambridge, UK (Chair), 2005
  11. Inverse Problems in the Applied Sciences, University of Sapporo, Japan, 2006
  12. 7th International Conference on Boundary Element Techniques, Paris, France, 2006
  13. Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, Miami, USA, 2007
  14. Applied Inverse Problems Conference CHAIR of the minisymposium on ”Inverse Problems in Engineering”, Vancouver, Canada, 2007
  15. 4th, 7th and 8th International Conference on ”Inverse Problems: 2008 Modelling and Simulation”, Fethiye, Turkey 2008, 2014, 2016, Co-CHAIR of the minisymposia on ”Inverse Source Problems” 
  16. and ”Coefficient Identification Problems” 2016
  17. 7th UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, Nottingham, UK, 2009
  18. 5th and 6th International Conference on ”Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation”, Antalya, Turkey 2010, 2012
  19. British Applied Mathematics Colloquium CHAIR of the minisymposium on ”Inverse Problems”, Birmingham, UK, 2011
  20. Eight UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Leeds, UK (CHAIR), 2011
  21. Inverse Problems and Applications (IPA2013), Linkoping University, Sweden, 2013
  22. British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Leeds, UK, 2013
  23. Ninth UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Aberdeen, UK, 2013
  24. LMS Meeting on ”Sparse Regularization for Inverse Problems”, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK (CO-CHAIR), 2014
  25. LMS Meeting on ”Hybrid and Multi-modal Imaging”, University of Manchester, UK (CO-CHAIR), 2014
  26. Tenth UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Brighton, UK, 2015
  27. Workshop on ”Uncertainty Quantification in Inverse Problems”, Novosibirsk, Russia (CO-CHAIR), 2016
  28. 11th UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, Nottingham Trent University, UK, 2017
  29. Workshop on ”Inverse Problems for the Heat Equation”, University of Leeds, UK (CHAIR), 2017

Talks at conferences/workshops/seminars:

1. "Functions with bounded variation and their relations with functions which possess primitives", National Session of Scientific Communications, Baia-Mare, Romania, July 1986.

2. "Graphical analysis on the computer", National Symposium of Computers, Iasi, Romania, May 1988.

3. "A mathematical investigation of the collection efficiency of the rotating arm collector", Institute for the Physics of the Atmosphere, Mainz, Germany, 23-25 July 1992 [INVITED SPEAKER].

4. "Characteristics of the boundary element methods in potential flow theory", Summer School in Applied Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania, 24-30 August 1992 [INVITED SPEAKER].

5. "The fluid mechanics of the rotating arm particle collector", Yorkshire Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Sheffield, UK, 15 December 1992.

6. "Potential flow past a bluff body with and without separation", The 2nd International Conference on Moving Boundaries, Milan, Italy, 23-25 June 1993 [INVITED SPEAKER].

7. "Collection efficiencies of the wide-stream impaction on obstacles", The 7th Annual Aerosol UK Society Conference, Bristol, UK, 29-30 June 1993.

8. "Boundary element method for an improperly posed problem in unsteady heat conduction", The 9th International Conference on Boundary Element Technology BETECH94, University of Central Florida, USA, 16-18 March 1994 [INVITED SPEAKER].

9. "The boundary element method in the solution of the inverse heat conduction problem", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC94, University of Sheffield, UK, 5-8 April 1994.

10. "A formulation of the boundary element method and the minimal energy technique for solving the inverse heat conduction problem", University of Leeds, UK,

25 April 1994 [INVITED SPEAKER].

11. "A theoretical and numerical approach for the motion of a small particle in a fluid flowing towards a symmetrical obstacle", Interactions Entre Mathematique Pures et Applique, Ecole Normale Superieur, France, 2-6 May 1994 [INVITED SPEAKER].

12. "The boundary element method for solving an inverse problem in heat conduction", Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics Workshop, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, 30 June - 2 July 1994.

13. "Boundary element method and minimal energy technique for the inverse heat conduction problem", The 2nd International Conference on Dynamic System Identification and Inverse Problems, St.Petersburg, Russia, 22-25 August 1994 [INVITED SPEAKER].

14. "Functional minimization techniques for solving inverse problems in heat conduction", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC95, University of Birmingham, UK, 10-13 April 1995.

15. "A boundary element solution to the backward heat conduction problem", 7th Annual Inverse Problems in Engineering Seminar, Ohio State University, USA, 12-13 June 1995.

16. "The identification of the thermal conductivity and heat capacity using the boundary element method", Applied Mathematics and Industrial Problems Workshop, Romanian Academy, Romania, 14-16 September 1995.

17. "Inverse problems in engineering using the boundary element method", University College London, UK, 27 November 1995 [INVITED SPEAKER].

18. "Some numerical results on the identification of the hydraulic conductivity of rocks", University of Leeds, UK, 12 January 1996 [INVITED SPEAKER].

19. Boundary element method for solving inverse problems in diffusion proccesses", Wessex Institute of Technology, UK, 30 January 1996 [INVITED SPEAKER].

20. "The identification of hydraulic properties of rocks using inverse methods", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC96, Loughborough University, UK, 25-28 March 1996.

21. "Inverse problems in heat conduction", University of Sheffield, UK, 15 May 1996 [INVITED SPEAKER].

22. "Identification of the hydraulic conductivity", The 2nd International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, Le Croisic, France, 9-14 June 1996.

23. "The solution of the inverse heat conduction problem in inhomogeneous conductors", Conference on Applied and Industrial Mathematics, University of Oradea, Romania, 16-18 August 1996 [INVITED SPEAKER].

24. "The solution of an inverse heat conduction problem subject to the specification of energy", Conference on Applied and Industrial Mathematics, University of Oradea, Romania, 16-18 August 1996 [INVITED SPEAKER].

25. "Some inverse problems for potential and heat equations", Inverse Problems Workshop, Loughborough University, UK, 17 December 1996 [INVITED SPEAKER].

26. "Energy specification in an inverse heat conduction problem", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC97, University of Edinburgh, UK, 1-4 April 1997.

27. "Spacewise coefficient identification in diffusion problems", University of Leeds, UK, 9 June 1997 [INVITED SPEAKER].

28. "Darcy's flows with unknown square-root harmonic transmissivity", The 1st UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Leeds, UK, 30 June - 1 July, 1997.

29. "An alternating boundary element method for solving the backward heat conduction problem", Conference on Boundary Integral Methods - Theory and Applications, University of Salford, UK, 15-18 september 1997.

30. "A mathematical model for a pump flow test for determining the permeability of rocks", Mathematical Methods in Well Testing, Edinburgh Petroleum Services, UK, 24-25 September 1997.

31. "Inverse coefficient identification problems", University of Strathclide, UK, 18 February 1998 [INVITED SPEAKER].

32. "An inverse coefficient identification problem for the heat equation", International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics ISIP98, Nagano City, Japan, 24-27 March 1998.

33. "Analysis of coefficient identification problems associated to the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC98, Brunel University, UK, 6-9 April 1998.

34. "The boundary element method for solving an inverse problem associated to the biharmonic equation", The 3rd International Conference on Identification of Dynamic Systems and Inverse Problems, Moscow - St.Petersburg, Russia, 30 May - 5 June 1998 [INVITED SPEAKER].

35. "An iterative algorithm for solving inverse boundary value problems in heat conduction", IMA Conference on Mathematics in Heat Transfer, University of Bradford, UK, 29 June - 1 July 1998.

36. "Inverse and ill-posed problems", University of Nantes, France, 18 September 1998 [INVITED SPEAKER].

37. "Identifiability of distributed parameters in transient beam-type systems", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC99, University of Bath, UK, 12-15 April 1999.

38. "An inverse problem for slow viscous incompressible flows", The 3rd International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, 13-18 June 1999.

39. "Retrieving the flexural rigidity of a beam from deflection measurements", The 3rd International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, 13-18 June 1999.

40. "An approximate boundary element method for solving the diffusion equation with spacewise dependent capacity and periodic boundary conditions", The 2nd UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, Brunel University, UK, 13-14 September 1999.

41. "The boundary element regularized solution for the biharmonic equation with underspecified boundary conditions and interior measurements", The 2nd UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, Brunel University, UK, 13-14 September 1999.

42. "The determination of the thermal properties of a heat conductor in a nonlinear heat conduction problem", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC2000, UMIST, Manchester, UK, 25-28 April 2000.

43. "Parameter identification within rocks", University of Bergen, Norway, 26 May 2000 [INVITED SPEAKER].

44. "Some inverse problems for partial differential equations", Rogaland Research, Bergen, Norway, 26 May 2000 [INVITED SPEAKER].

45. "Inverse problems for partial differential equations", University of Frankfurt, Germany, 14 June 2000 [INVITED SPEAKER].

46. "Identifiability of the flexural rigidity of a plate", RCP264, Inverse Problems and Nonlinearity, Theory and Applications, University of Montpellier II, France, 20-24 June 2000.

47. "The inverse heat conduction problem using a mollified decomposition method", SFB Conference on Inverse Problems, Strobl, Austria, 28 June -1 July 2000.

48. "Inverse problems in heat conduction", Recent Developments in the Wave Field and Diffuse Tomographic Inverse Problems, EuroConference, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 3-5 August 2000.

49. "Inverse analysis with applications", Colorado School of Mines, USA, 20 October 2000 [INVITED SPEAKER].

50. "Inverse identification problems", Colorado School of Mines, USA, 16 November 2000 [INVITED SPEAKER].

51. "Inverse problems in engineering", Texas A \& M, USA, 6 February 2001 [INVITED SPEAKER].

52. "Applied inverse problems", Texas A \& M, USA, 26 February 2001 [INVITED SPEAKER].

53. "Inverse Problems and Boundary Element Methods", San Diego State University, USA, 5 March 2001 [INVITED SPEAKER].

54. "Boundary element methods for solving inverse problems", University of Linkoping, Sweden, 5 September 2001 [INVITED SPEAKER].

55. "Inverse Problems with Applications", University of Linkoping, Sweden, 5 September 2001 [INVITED SPEAKER].

56. "A boundary element investigation of the potential boundary determination", 3rd UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Brighton, UK, 10-11 September 2001.

57. "Inverse boundary and inclusion problems", Inverse Problems Workshop, Loughborough University, UK, 26 November 2001 [INVITED SPEAKER].

58. "Inversion of the anisotropic conductivity problem", International Conference on Inverse Problems, Recent Development in Theories and Numerics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 9-12 January 2002.

59. "Inverse inclusion problems", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC2002, University of Warwick, UK, 9-12 April 2002.

60. "Comparison of various methods for solving the Cauchy problem in linear elasticity", 4th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, Angra dois Reis, Brazil, 26-31 May 2002.

61. "The determination of the thermal properties of a flat plate quenched in a tank filled with fluid", 4th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, Angra dois Reis, Brazil, 26-31 May 2002.

62. "Uniqueness of a separable, heterogeneous and nonlinear conductivity", Inverse Problems Workshop, Linkoping University, Sweden, 9 September 2002. [INVITED SPEAKER].

63. "The boundary element method for the inversion of discontinuous conductivities", Baia Mare, Romania, 10-13 October 2002.

64. "Inversion of anisotropic conductivities", Workshop on Inverse Obstacle Problems, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 4-6 November 2002 [PLENARY SPEAKER].

65. "The boundary element method for the inversion of discontinuous conductivities", 4th International Conference on Boundary Element Techniques, 15-17 July 2003, University of Granada, Spain.

66. "A numerical investigation which proves the existence or non-existence of a solution for the Cauchy problem for elliptic equations", Fourth UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, 15-16 September 2003, University of Salford, UK.

67. "Boundary element methods for solving inverse problems, Brunel University, UK, 2 March 2004 [INVITED SPEAKER].

68. "A tutorial on inverse analysis with boundary elements", Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, 17-19 March 2004, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [INVITED SPEAKER].

69. "The determination of a permeability function from core measurements and pressure data", Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, 17-19 March 2004, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

70. "The Cauchy problem", IFIP7.2, 31st May - 1st June 2004, Lisbon, Portugal [INVITED SPEAKER].

71. "Uniqueness of a separable, heterogeneous and nonlinear conductivity", Thirteenth Inverse Problems in Engineering Seminar, 14-15 June 2004, University of Cincinnati, USA.

72. "The determination of the thermal properties of a homogeneous heat conductor", 5th International Conference on Boundary Element Techniques, 21-23 July 2004, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal.

73. "Regularization methods for solving the Cauchy problem for the Helmholtz equation", Interdisciplinary Workshop on Developments in Boundary Element Methods for Acoustics and Electromagnetics, 15-18 September 2004, University of Reading, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

74. "Treatment of singularities in the Helmholtz equation using the boundary element method", BICOM Workshop on Boundary Elements, Brunel University, UK, 16-17 June 2005.

75. "An inverse coefficient identification problem for a dynamic plate model", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, 11-15 July 2005, Cambridge, UK.

76. "Trends in inverse problems", International Conference on Theory and Applications of Mathematics and Informatics (ICTAMI), 14-18 September 2005, Alba-Iulia, Romania [PLENARY SPEAKER].

77. "Fluid flows in petroleum reservoirs", Internal Fluids and MHD Seminars, 19 January 2006, University of Leeds, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

78. "Inverse source problems for the heat equation", Inverse Problems Workshop, 20 March, 2006, University of Liverpool, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

79. "The beauty and elegance of the mathematical rationale", 6th Form Conference, University of Leeds, 19-21 April, 2006.

80. "Numerical solution of the Cauchy problem of Stokes flow", The Third International Conference "Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation", May 29-June 02, 2006, Fethiye, Turkey [INVITED SPEAKER].

81. "Iterative methods for the Cauchy problem of Stokes flow", Inverse Problems in Applied Sciences, 3-7 July 2006, Sapporo, Japan.

82. "The boundary element method for solving the Laplace equation in two-dimensions with oblique derivative boundary conditions", The 7th International Conference on Boundary Element Techniques, 4-6 September 2006, Paris, France.

83. "The inverse heat conduction problem", The Lionel Day, 27 October 2006, University of Leeds, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

84. "Source identification in heat conduction", 9 November 2006, University of Birmingham, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

85. "Determination of the leading coefficient in fourth-order Sturm-Liouville operator from boundary measurements", Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium (IPDO-2007), 16-18 April 2007, Florida International University, Miami, USA.

86. "The method of fundamental solutions for steady-state heat conduction in nonlinear composite materials", Workshop on the Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS 2007), 11-13 June 2007, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

87. "MFS-based solution to direct and inverse boundary value problems for nonlinear functionally graded materials", Workshop on the Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS 2007), 11-13 June 2007, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

88. "Restoring boundary conditions in heat conduction", Conference on Applied Inverse Problems 2007: Theoretical and Computational Aspects (AIP 2007), 25-29 June 2007, University of British Columbia, Canada.

89. "The condition number of the BEM-matrices arising from the biharmonic equation, 6th UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods (UKBIM6), 17-18 September 2007, Durham University, UK.

90. "Numerical methods for inverse problems", Workshop on Inverse Problems and Optimization in Low Frequency Electromagnetism, 2-3 October 2007, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium [PLENARY SPEAKER].

91. "Geometric inverse problems", Workshop on Inverse Problems and Optimization in Low Frequency Electromagnetism, 2-3 October 2007, Catholic University of

Leuven, Belgium [PLENARY SPEAKER].

92. "Reconstruction of heat transfer coefficients in heat conduction", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC2008, 31 March - 3 April 2008, University of Manchester, UK.

93. "Inverse boundary determination problems", 21 April 2008, East Anglia University, Norwich, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

94. "Identification of the time-dependent perfusion coefficient in the bio-heat conduction equation", The Fourth International Conference "Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation", 26-30 May 2008, Fethiye, Turkey [INVITED SPEAKER].

95. "Identification of the blood perfusion rate in bio-heat conduction", 20 November 2008, University of Greenwich, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

96. "Non-local methods for some inverse and ill-posed problems", Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications, 16 December 2008, University of Linkoping, Sweden [PLENARY SPEAKER].

97. "Inverse geometric problems", Inaugural Lecture, 18 March 2009, University of Leeds, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

98. "The method of fundamental solutions for cavity detection", 10th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2009), 16-19 June 2009, University of Manchester, UK.

99. "The boundary element method for the determination of nonlinear boundary conditions in heat conduction", 31st International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Techniques, 2-4 September 2009, Wessex Institute of Technology, New Forest, UK.

100. "Inverse inclusion and boundary determination problems", 10 September 2009, University of Frankfurt, Germany [INVITED SPEAKER].

101. "Determining the flexural rigidity of a beam", The Fifth International Conference "Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation", 24-29 May 2010, Antalya, Turkey.

102. "The method of fundamental solutions for inverse Stefan problems", The Fifth International Conference "Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation", 24-29 May 2010, Antalya, Turkey.

103. "The MFS for shape identification", Research Trends in Applied Inverse Problems, 19-20 July 2010, University of Birmingham, UK [PLENARY SPEAKER].

104. "The identification of the blood perfusion coefficient in bio-heat transfer", 3rd Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium (IPDO-2010), 25-27 August 2010, Joao Pessoa, Brazil [PLENARY SPEAKER].

105. "Inverse inclusion and boundary determination problems", 2 September 2010, University of Bergen, Norway [INVITED SPEAKER].

106. "The critical Stokes number of the wide-stream impaction on obstacles", 26 October 2010, LAND Seminar, University of Leeds, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

107. "Inverse analysis of object detection", 25 November 2010, Brunel University, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

108. "Impaction of aerosol particles onto a collector", Open Mathematical Problems from Industry and Elsewhere, 9 December 2010, University of Oxford, UK.

109. "Identification of the blood perfusion coefficient", 6 December 2011, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

110. "Determination of thermal boundary coefficients using inverse methods", 19 October 2012, University of Warwick, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

111. "Determination of heat transfer coefficients", Inverse Problems and Applications (IPA2013), 2-6 April 2013, Linkoping University, Sweden [PLENARY SPEAKER].

112. "Determination of the blood perfusion coefficient using inverse analysis", 22 April 2013, Heriot-Watt University, UK [INVITED SPEAKER].

113. "A meshless numerical identification of a convective corroded boundary", Ninth UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, 8-9 July 2013, University of Aberdeen, UK.

114. "The method of fundamental solutions for inverse geometric problems", The Fifth International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Analyses for Inverse Problems (IWTCA-IP), 19-21 July 2013, Taiyuan University of Technology, China [PLENARY SPEAKER].

Responsibilities

  • Organiser of 6th Form Conferences
  • Organiser of Leeds Masterclasses
  • International Foundation Year Coordinator

Research interests

Inverse problems

Whilst direct formulations consist of determining the effect of a given cause, in inverse formulations the situation is completely, or partially reversed. The interest is into the research of inverse problems for partial differential equations governing phenomena in fluid flow, elasticity, acoustics, heat transfer, mechanics of aerosols, etc. Typical practical applications relate to flows in porous media, heat conduction in materials, thermal barrier coatings, heat exchangers, corrosion, etc. The objectives are to investigate the existence, uniqueness and stability of the solution to the problem that mathematically models a physical phenomenon under investigation, and to develop new convergent, stable and robust algorithms for obtaining the desired solution. The analyses concern inverse boundary value problems, inverse initial value problems, parameter identification, inverse geometry and source determination problems.

Boundary element methods

The Boundary Element Method (BEM) is attractive mainly due to the possibility of reducing the dimensionality of a boundary value problem described by linear partial differential equations. To be successful in the reduction of dimensionality it is needed to have the fundamental solution of the original partial differential equations available in an analytical or simple form. If this is not the case then of much interest is the development and computational implementation of recent BEMs such as the dual reciprocity, multiple reciprocity, analogous element, contour point, fundamental solutions and meshless methods for solving both direct and inverse problems of mathematical physics.

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Qualifications

  • PhD, Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
  • MSc, Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
  • BSc, Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Bucharest, Romania
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PCTLHE)
  • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) 2010 - 2015

Professional memberships

  • London Mathematical Society
  • Eurasian Association for Inverse Problems
  • British Inverse Problems Society
  • Board of Governors of the International Conferences on Inverse Problems in Engineering
  • Centre for Collaborative Nuclear Research (CCNR) at the University of Leeds
  • Centre for Integrated Petroleum Engineering 2008- and Geoscience (CiPEG) at Leeds University
  • International Society on Inverse 2008- Problems in Science and Engineering (ISIPSE)
  • Energy Leeds Society
  • Review Committee of Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences
  • Promotional College Member on Promotion Panels at the University of Leeds

Student education

  • As an undergraduate in the period 1987-1991 at the University of Bucharest I assisted students and gave seminars to the Romanian team preparing for the International Olympiades in Mathematics.
  • As a postgraduate in the period 1991-1995 at the University of Leeds I assisted in the marking of students’ work, acted as a demonstrator at Example Classes and gave 6 hours course on ”Boundary Elements” to the MSc students in Computational Fluid Dynamics.
  • I also gave lectures to the 6th form students on ”Poncelet’s theorem” in July 2002, on ”Rational numbers” in April 2003 and June 2012, on ”Jensen’s inequalities” in April 2004, on ”Geometrical properties derived from mechanics”
  • In March 2005, on ”The beauty and elegance of mathematical rationale” in April 2006, and on ”Asymptotic curves to the graph of a function” in 2007-2009.
  • In 2007, I gave 4 hourse graduate lectures on ”Ill-posed problems” and ”Decomposition method” to PhD students taking the course on ”Advanced Numerical Methods for PDEs”.
  • On 23rd February 2011, I gave 2 hours graduate lectures on ”Ill-posed Problems” to PhD students at the University of Birmingham.
  • On 6-7 July 2019, I gave 10 hours graduate lectures on "Inverse Problems" to a summer school in Romania.

Invited short courses given:

  1. ”Boundary elements”, Summer School in Applied Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania, 24-30 August 1992.

  2. "The boundary element method for solving inverse and ill-posed problems”, The 3rd International Conference on Identification of Dynamic Systems and Inverse Problems, Moscow - St.Petersburg, Russia, 30 May - 5 June  1998.

  3. ”A tutorial on inverse analysis with boundary elements”, Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, 17-19 March 2004, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  4. Four lectures on inverse problems”, Minisymposium on Inverse Problems and Optimization in Low Frequency Electromagnetism, 2-3 October 2007, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Actively involved in teaching activities at all levels, years 1, 3, 5, MSc and PhD levels. Wide range of courses in Applied Mathematics. 

Organiser of the 6th Form Conference, Mathematics Teachers Conference and Leeds Masterclasses. 

For the past 20 years, I have supervised successfully 22 undergraduate students, 17 MSc students, 17 PhD students, and 3 visiting PhD students. Currently, I supervise 4 PhD students (K.Cai (2015-), M. Huntul (2016-), H. Tunnicliffe (2018-) and M. Alosaimi (2018-). I have also supervised 12 post-docs and visting researchers.

Internal/external examiner for:

1 S.Subbey, DSc (University of Bergen, Norway) 2000
2 R.Valestrand, DSc (University of Bergen, Norway) 2002
3 H.Kruger, DSc (University of Bergen, Norway) 2004
4 T.T. Nguyen, PhD (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) 2007
5 G.Senaratne, PhD (Massey University, New Zealand) 2007, 2008
6 A.K.Singh, PhD (Indian Institute of Technology, India) 2008
7 L.R.Mealey, PhD (University of Leeds, UK) 2008
8 V.Zemanova, PhD (Ghent University, Belgium) 2009
9 D.Stevens, PhD (University of Nottingham) 2009
10 C.F.Brito-Loeza, PhD (University of Liverpool) 2009
11 S.H.Yoon, PhD (University of Leeds, UK) 2010
12 A.N. Reddy, PhD (Indian Institute of Science, India) 2011
13 J.Irsa, PhD (University of Wales, UK) 2011
14 N.Tian, PhD (University of Greenwich, UK) 2012
15 M.AL-Jawary, PhD (Brunel University, UK) 2012
16 P.Haderka, PhD (University of Wales, UK) 2012
17 I.Solekhudin, PhD (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 2013
18 L.Mpinganzima, PhD (University of Linkoping, Sweden) 2014
19 L.Cunningham, PhD (University of Strathclyde, UK) 2014
20 T.Hazlehurst, PhD (University of Leeds, UK) 2015
21 E.Al Hosani, PhD (University of Bath, UK) 2016
22 J. Toivanen, PhD (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) 2016
23 C. Fresneda-Portillo, PhD (Brunel University) 2016
24 L. Haweil, PhD (University of Leeds) 2018
25 S. Al-Bayati, PhD (Brunel University) 2018
26 D. Deidda, PhD (University of Leeds) 2018
27. A. Hamdi, HDR (INSA-Rouen, France) 2018

Research groups and institutes

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Complex materials and industrial maths

Current postgraduate researchers

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