Oxford University - Mathematical Institute - Coralia Cartis

Current and previous employment

2013 - current: University Lecturer/Associate Professor in Numerical Optimization, Mathematical Institute (Numerical Analysis Group) and Balliol College, University of Oxford.

2007 - 2013: Lecturer (tenured assistant professor, permanent post), School of Mathematics, Operations Research Group, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Affiliations@Edinburgh: ERGO, eCoS, NAIS, A&C.

2006 - 2007: Research Scientist in Numerical Analysis (permanent post), STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Numerical Analysis Group, CSE Department, Oxfordshire, UK.

2004 - 2006: EPSRC Postdoctoral Researcher, PI: Dr Raphael Hauser, Numerical Analysis Group, University of Oxford.

2005: PhD in Mathematics, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: Prof Michael J.D. Powell, FRS.
1999: Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, University of Cambridge.
1998: BSc in Mathematics, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Associate Member of NAXYS, The Namur Research Centre on Complex Systems (2010--present)
Visiting Scientist at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Numerical Analysis Group (2007--present)

Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis, Second Place, IMA, UK, 2005. (Awarded for my PhD research)
Churchill College Pochobradsky Scholarship, University of Cambridge. (Fully-funded PhD place)
Shell Centenary Scholarship, University of Cambridge. (Fully-funded Part III place)

Using Optimisation Algorithms to tune Climate Models (OptClim), NERC NE/L012146/1 (co-PI), 2014 - 2015.
Optimal Newton-type algorithms for large-scale nonlinear optimization, EPSRC EP/I028854/1 (PI), 2011 - 2013.
Royal Society International Joint Project (PI), 2010 - 2012.
Development of parallel search algorithms, EPSRC EP/F01130X/1 (coPI), 2007 - 2009.
Other grant income: Mathematical Institute EPSRC Platform Grant (research collaboration visits for Prof Philippe Toint (Namur, Belgium) and Prof Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh, USA)), NAIS (one year of postdoc time, PI), Bridging the Gaps grants (PI, with UoE GeoScience and with UoE Engineering), CASE Studentship (co-PI, with Selex Galileo and J Tanner), MAXIMATHS (PI, Parameter estimation for climate modelling), Maxwell Institute (Cucker Colloquium and Workshop), ICMS (SPARS'11), etc.