Education

• Ph.D. Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1998.

Employment history

• Research Associate (tenured) F.N.R.S., Belgium (2002-present).
• Marie Curie European fellowship, Université Paris 11, Orsay, France (2001-2003).
• Post-doctoral position, Université Paris 11, Orsay, France (2001).
• Invited lecturer, Rice University, Texas (Spring 2000).
• E.P.S.R.C. fellowship, University College London, London, England (1998-2000).

Research interests: Analysis

• Geometric measure theory: existence and regularity of solutions of geometric variational problems in Euclidean or metric spaces.
• Linear and nonlinear partial differential equations: regularity of solutions and removable singularities.
• Conditionally convergent integrals: coordinate free generalizations of the Lebesgue integral, the Gauss-Green Theorem.

PhD Students

• Laurent Moonens (Conditionally convergent integrals and removable singularities)
• Thomas Meinguet (Plateau-like problems)
• Jordan Goblet (Multi-functions in the sense of F.J. Almgren)

Post-doctoral collaborator

• David Pavlica

Teaching experience

• Geometric Measure Theory (graduate), at the Université catholique de Louvain since 2004.
• Probability (graduate), at the Université catholique de Louvain, 2005-2006.
• Several variables (undergraduate), at the Université catholique de Louvain, 2004-2005.
• Elliptic PDE (graduate), at Rice University, 2000.
• Calculus and its applications (undergraduate), at Rice University, 2000.
• Teaching assistant (undergraduate), at the Université catholique de Louvain, 1993-1998.

Selected invited talks

• Nonlinear analysis and PDEs seminar (Rutgers University, 2006): The Gauss-Green Theorem and applications to PDEs.
• Analysis seminar (Courant Institute, 2006): The Gauss-Green Theorem and applications to PDEs.
• Séminaire d'analyse harmonique (Orsay, 2005): Caractérisation des distributions F telles que l'équation div v = F admet une solution continue v.
• International Conference on Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Hangzhou, China, 2005): Monotonicity, epiperimetry and regularity.
• Geometric Analysis Seminar (University of Helsinki, 2005): New theorems pertaining to the Plateau problem.
• Workshop in Analysis and Geometric Measure Theory (Banff, Canada, 2003): The Plateau problem is not solved yet, we are working at it!.
• Workshop in Geometric Measure Theory and the Calculus of Variations (Trento, Italy, 2003): Smooth submanifolds, density ratios and almost area minimizing integral currents.
• Analysis Seminar (Oxford University, 2002): Soap films: Federer-Fleming's vs Reifenberg's approach.
• Colloquium lecture (Université catholique de Louvain, 2002): On a marché sur des bulles.
• Harmonic analysis and partial differential equations (Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, 2002): Size minimization and approximating problems.
• Séminaire d'analyse (Université d'Orléans, 2001): Autour du théorème de la divergence.
• Prairie analysis seminar (Kansas State University, 2001): Nearly flat almost monotone measures are big pieces of Lipschitz graphs.
• Analysis seminar (University of Houston, 2001): Size minimization and approximating problems
• Geometry-analysis seminar (Rice University, 2001): Size minimization and approximating problems.
• ICMS meeting "Progess in PDE" (Edinburgh, 2001): Nearly flat almost monotone measures are big pieces of Lipschitz graphs.
• Geometry-Analysis seminar (Rice University, 2000): Monotonicity and the regularity of measures.
• Séminaire d'analyse harmonique (Orsay, 2000): Sur le problème de Plateau.
• Colloquium lecture (Aberdeen University, 1999): Size minimizing integral currents.
• Colloquium lecture (University College London, 1998): Calibrations and functions of bounded variation.
• CARTEMI meeting (Italy, 1998): About BV dual.
• Geometry-Analysis seminar (Rice University, 1997): About BV dual.
• CARTEMI meeting (Ischia, Italy, 1996): Topologies for the space of BV integrable functions in Rⁿ.

Administrative duties

• Member of the PhD committee of: Marc Bernot (E.N.S., Cachan, France, 2006), Ville Suomala (U. of Helsinki, Finland, 2005), Gautier Berck (U.C.L., Belgium, 2005).
• In charge of the Geometric Measure Theory seminar at the Université catholique de Louvain.
• Member of the committee in charge of making the new graduate program, Université catholique de Louvain, 2005-2006.
• Co-organizer with B. Kirchheim (Oxford University) of the Geometric Measure Theory Summer School, Luminy, France, September 2003.

Grants

• Crédit aux chercheurs, F.N.R.S., 2006-2007.
• Grant for hiring a post-doc for one year (Université catholique de Louvain, F.S.R.), 2005-2006.
• Crédit aux chercheurs, F.N.R.S., 2004-2006.

(Human) language skills

• French: mother tongue.
• English: fluent.
• Dutch: basic skills.
• Italian: vague recollections of working knowledge.

(Computer) language skills

• Working knowledge of Linux, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
• Working knowledge of LaTeX related software.
• Some restricted programming experience with Assembly language (the good old time of the Commodore 64), Pascal, Basic, C, Tcl.

Erdos number

• 3 (Erdos -> Mauldin -> Buczolich -> De Pauw).