On April 15th, 2026, the spring edition of our celebrated CASA Day took place. We gathered at the Academisch Genootschap, a familiar venue for many of our CASA colleagues, for a day filled with a variety of interesting scientific talks and engaging workshops. The program began with presentations from the groups of Luc [Read more]
Hi everyone, my name is Sara Giarrusso. As of January 2026, I joined CASA and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at TU/e as an Assistant Professor. My research lies at the interface between physics, chemistry, and mathematics, and aims at developing reliable and practical methods to describe electronic structure from a [Read more]
Hi everyone! My name is Anna De Magistris, and joined CASA on October 14th, 2025. I'm a visiting PhD student in Mathematics, and I’ll be working under the supervision of Professor Michiel Hochstenbach for the next six months. I earned my Master's degree in Mathematics, with a specialisation in Numerical Analysis, from the [Read more]
Hi, I am Nino. On September 1st 2025, I joined CASA as a PhD student, working on the project “Emergence of Irreversibility and the Arrow of Time” under supervision of Mark Peletier and Klaas Landsman. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from TU Delft, studying Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, and my Master’s degree [Read more]
Hello everyone, my name is Sarah. I joined CASA as a PhD student in the Computational Illumination Optics group on October 1st. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Hasselt University and completed my Master’s here at TU/e, where my thesis focused on developing a mathematical model for a two-dimensional lens–reflector system. In [Read more]
January 2024, Victorita Dolean-Maini was appointed full professor of High Performance Scientific Computing in CASA. October 2, 2025, she will deliver her inaugural lecture, entitled: Solvers and symbiosis: A journey in mathematical learning from local to global. Victorita’s research focuses on fast, scalable solvers for partial differential equations, increasingly on their interplay with emerging [Read more]
Hi everyone, My name is Max, and I joined the Applied Analysis group in CASA as a docent on August 1st. I’m originally from the central United States, and since 2015 I’ve pursued my academic journey through a PhD in Seattle, Washington, followed by postdoctoral positions in Leipzig, Germany, and Jyväskylä, Finland. My [Read more]
Hey everyone! My name is Joie (pronounced ˈjoʊwi for IPA enjoyers) and I’m joining the Computational Illumination Optics group as of the 7th of July 2025. I hail from the picturesque city of Venlo in northern Limburg, where I’ve been living all my life thus far. I did my bachelor and master at [Read more]
Hello everyone, My name is Maxim Pisarenco, and I (re)joined CASA in May as a part-time Associate Professor (one day per week). I’m excited about this opportunity, which I see as a chance to strengthen the connection between TU/e and ASML. At ASML Research, we focus on integrating noisy data and physical laws—including [Read more]
Hello everyone, I'm Gabriel. I come from Portugal, and I've recently joined CASA as a PhD student to work on the topic "Hyperbolic Solutions of the Monge-Ampère Equation". I have a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Mathematics from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. I completed my Master's thesis in an exchange [Read more]
