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Björn de Rijk - CV

Professional Appointments

2021-	Junior Research Group Leader, Institute for Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2020	Acting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
2017-2021	Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Analysis, Dynamics and Modeling, University of Stuttgart
2015	Visiting Scholar, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
2012-2016	Doctoral Researcher, Mathematical Institute, Leiden University

Education

2016	PhD Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, Leiden University
2012	MSc Mathematics, Leiden University
2010	BSc Mathematics, Leiden University

Grants

2025	DFG 491897824 (renewal) as PI
	Project Shedding new light on the robustness of periodic patterns: wavenumber selection laws via nonlinear stability of pushed fronts and source defects
2023	DFG 258734477 as PI in CRC 1173
	Project Nonlinear stability of periodic waves in dissipative-dispersive systems
2021	DFG 491897824 as PI
	Project Shedding new light on the robustness of periodic patterns: nonlinear stability of modulated wave trains in a pure L^infty-framework
2019	DFG 390740016 as collaborator in EXC 2075
	Project Exploiting structural knowledge in nonlinear PDE problems for efficient deployment of the learning abilities of adaptive neural networks

Outreach

2025	KIT im Rathaus -- Talk for layman audience
2024	Die Formel hinter der Welle -- Article for university magazine
2023	Mathematik schlägt Wellen -- Taster course for high-school students
2018	Porträts am Fachbereich Mathematik -- Interview

Organization

2025	MS Organizer Dynamics and Stability of Localized Structures in Nonlinear Optics at SIAM DS25, Denver
2025	MS Organizer Dissipative Patterns and Waves at Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena, Karlsruhe
2024	OC Member Workshop Dynamical Systems Approaches towards Nonlinear PDEs, Stuttgart
2023	OC Member MathSEE Symposium, Karlsruhe
2023	MS Organizer Front Propagation and Invasion Phenomena at SIAM DS23, Portland
2022	OC Member Workshop Spatial Dynamics, Stuttgart
2022	MS Organizer Planar and Higher-Dimensional Patterns: Analysis & Numerics at SIAM NWCS22, Bremen
2022	MS Organizer The stability of nonlinear waves at Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena, Karlsruhe
2017-2021	Organizer Seminar Nonlinear Differential Equations, Stuttgart
2019	MS Organizer Stability of nonlinear waves and coherent structures at EquaDiff2019, Leiden
2019	MS Organizer Existence and stability of imperfect patterns at SIAM DS19, Snowbird
2018	OC Member GAMM Workshop Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Stuttgart
2018	MS Organizer Pattern formation and localized structures at Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena, Karlsruhe
2014-2016	OC Member PhD Colloqium, Leiden
2014	OC Member NDNS+ PhD Days, Lunteren
2013	Co-Organizer PhD Seminar Infinite Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Delft/Leiden

Editorial Activities

2025-present	Nonlinearity - Editorial Board Member
2022	Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - S. Guest Editor for Special Issue Advances in the Mathematical Study of Pattern Formation

Referee/Reviewer

Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Analyse Non Linéaire
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems
European Journal of Applied Mathematics
Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations
Journal of the European Mathematical Society
Journal of Nonlinear Science
Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena
Mathematical Reviews
Memoirs of the European Mathematical Society
Nonlinearity
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
Proceedings of the Royal Society A
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
The IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik

Selected Talks

June 8-13, 2025	IMAG Workshop Dynamics of Coherent Structures in Discrete and Continuum Nonlinear Systems, Granada
May 12, 2025	SIAM DS25, Denver
May 1, 2025	Departmental Math Colloquium Indiana University, Bloomington
February 26, 2025	Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena, Karlsruhe
January 27, 2025	Dynamical systems seminar, Boston
January 23, 2025	ICERM Workshop Patterns, Dynamics, and Data in Complex Systems, Providence
July 11, 2024	Lorentz Center Workshop Multiple Scales, Leiden
June 11, 2024	Equadiff2024, Karlstad
May 28, 2024	EWM-EMS Summer School: Water Waves and Nonlinear Dispersive Equations, Djursholm
May 2, 2024	CRC seminar, Karlsruhe
October 13, 2023	One World Dynamics Seminar, online
August 21, 2023	ICIAM 2023, Tokyo
May 16, 2023	SIAM DS23, Portland
April 27, 2023	Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium for Applied Mathematics, Hamburg
March 2, 2023	Dynamical systems seminar, Leiden
January 30, 2023	Dynamical systems seminar, Boston
November 29, 2022	BIRS Workshop Topics in Multiple Time Scale Dynamics, Banff
September 29, 2022	NCTS Webinar on Nonlinear Evolutionary Dynamics, Taiwan
August 30, 2022	SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Bremen
July 7, 2022	Lorentz Center Workshop Coherent Structures, Leiden
October 5, 2021	NCTS Webinar on Nonlinear Evolutionary Dynamics, Taiwan
August 8, 2021	Workshop Dynamics of Waves and Patterns, Oberwolfach
August 25, 2021	Dynamics Days 2021 XL, Nice
June 30, 2021	Oberseminar Mathematische Modelle, München
May 25, 2021	SIAM DS21, Online
March 12, 2020	Seminaire equations-aux-derivees-partielles, Rennes
July 9, 2019	EquaDiff2019, Leiden
May 19, 2019	SIAM DS19, Snowbird
May 6, 2019	Oberseminar Dynamics TUM, Munich
March 5, 2019	Applied Analysis Seminar, Heidelberg
September 19, 2018	Sixth Workshop of the GAMM Activity Group Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Stuttgart
June 14, 2018	SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Orange
September 12, 2017	DMVÖMG annual meeting, Salzburg
May 25, 2017	SIAM DS17, Snowbird Movie \| Slides
August 10, 2016	SIAM NW16, Philadelphia
May 17, 2016	Oberseminar Nonlinear Dynamics, Berlin
June 6, 2015	EquaDiff 2015, Lyon
May 19, 2015	SIAM DS 2015, Snowbird
April 10, 2015	Applied math days at RPI, Troy
April 6, 2015	Dynamical systems seminar, Boston
February 12, 2015	Analysis Colloquium, Delft