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education/training:

research and professional experience:

Professional Experience:
1998-1999    Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
1999-2000    Junior Member, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
2000-2002    Research Associate, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England
2002-            Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Other appointments:            
Member of the Institute of Mathematics Simion Stoilow of the Romanian Academy (cp3 since 1998)
Junior Member, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, England (2002)
Visitor Member, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Ivette, France (2004)

Grants and Awards:
1993-1994    Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
1999-2000    Junior Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
2002             Junior Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, England
2004             Visitor Fellowship, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Ivette, France
2004             College Research Activity Award, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2005             Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2005             The Gheorghe Lazar Prize of the Romanian Academy

Refereed Publications (MathSciNet search)