My name is Pim Otte. I am joining CASA as a PhD-candidate in "Type Theory for Education", with supervision from Jim Portegies, as well as Johan Commelin and Paige North (both UU). Before this, I was a teacher and software engineer in a consultancy. I am primarily based in Utrecht, for the foreseeable [Read more]
Hi, I am Christopher Beekmann, and I joined CASA as a PhD student on September 1st, 2024. I recently completed my Master's degree at the Technical University of Munich, where my thesis focused on using rough path theory to analyse bifurcations in the pitchfork dynamical system with fractional additive noise. At TU/e, I'm [Read more]
My name is René Köhle. I joined CASA as a PhD student on 26 August. I am under the supervision of Koondanibha Mitra. I am a graduate of the University of Ulm, Germany, where I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computational Science and Engineering, an interdisciplinary programme in Mathematics, Computer Science [Read more]
My name is Jan Willem van Beek. I recently joined CASA as a PhD student, under the supervision of Victorita Dolean-Maini and Michiel Hochstenbach. For the last five years I’ve mainly worked in the financial sector, with a brief stint as a cryptography scientist at TNO (a Dutch semi-governmental research organization). Before that [Read more]
My name is Rafael Bailo (call me Rafa), and I joined CASA as assistant professor on 1st June 2024, though you might have met me at either of the two previous CASA days. I've just relocated from the United Kingdom, where I lived since 2012. Previously, I was a research associate at the [Read more]
Hello, my name is Benjamin Caris. As of May 13, I have officially joined CASA as a PhD student under supervision of Olga Mula. You may have already seen me around during the most recent CASA day (April 10)! Before joining CASA, I did the bachelor Applied Mathematics and master Industrial & Applied [Read more]
Hi, I am Lisa Kusch and I joined CASA on January 15th as an assistant professor in the Computational Illumination Optics group. I was born in Aachen, Germany and studied Computational Engineering Science at RWTH Aachen University, where I focused on mathematics and fluid mechanics. I did my PhD and my PostDoc phase [Read more]
Victorita Dolean-Maini just joined CASA as a Full Professor in Scientific Computing. Before that, she was a part-time Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where she still holds a honorary visiting position. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). She did her PhD thesis at [Read more]
Hi all, I’m Benjamin Sanderse and I just joined CASA this fall as Associate Professor (1 day per week). This will be an exciting new position for me that I want to use to build bridges between TU/e and CWI. At CWI (the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science), I’m [Read more]
Hello all, I'm Margot Gerritsen and I joined CASA this year as Distinguished Professor in CSE. It's wonderful to be connected to CASA and Eindhoven. A bit about my background. I'm a Dutchie, born and bred in Zeeland. I left the country in 1990 after my MSc degree in Applied Mathematics at TU [Read more]
