Home Page - Thomas Chen




Department of Mathematics
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C1200
Austin, TX 78712


Office: RLM 12.138
Phone: (512) 471 7180

Email: t c A_T m a t h . u t e x a s . e d u



Research interests:
Mathematical Physics
Analysis
Applied Mathematics










Research

CV (short version)



Personal

US permanent resident, citizen of Switzerland. Married with two children.

Education

2001 Ph.D. ETH Zurich, in Mathematical Physics.
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Jurg Frohlich. Coadvisor: Prof. Gian-Michele Graf.
1999 Ph.D. ETH Zurich, in Mechanical Engineering.
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Hans Brauchli. Coadvisor: Prof. Eduard Zehnder.

Positions

2008 - present Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin (on leave 2007/08).
2004 - 2008 Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University.
2001 - 2004 Courant Instructor, Courant Institute, New York University.
Mentor: Prof. Horng-Tzer Yau (now at Harvard University).

Mentoring

Current PhD students: Kenneth Taliaferro, Chris White.

Postdoc: Dr. Itaru Sasaki (PhD Hokkaido University, 2007; JSPS grant), 2007/08 at Princeton University.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics (tenure track), Shinshu University, Japan (since 2009).


Grants and honors

2012 - 2017 NSF CAREER Grant DMS-1151414, PI.
2011 Annales Henri Poincare Prize 2010 for the article linked here.
2010 - 2013 NSF Grant DMS-1009448, PI.
2007 - 2010 NSF Grant DMS-0704031 / DMS-0940145, PI.
2004 - 2007 NSF Grant DMS-0407644 / DMS-0524909, PI.
2003 - 2004 NYU Research Challenge Fund Award.


A more detailed CV is available here (last update: 3/2012).