Johannes Zimmer Education ¨ PhD in Mathematics, Technische Universit¨at Munchen, October 2000, summa cum laude ¨ Diploma in Mathematics, Technische Universit¨at Munchen, November 1997, average 1.0 Professional experience Professor of Mathematics, University of Bath, Department of Mathematical Sciences, since 2014 Reader (Associate Professor) in Applied Mathematics, University of Bath, Department of Mathematical Sciences, since 2009 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Applied Mathematics, University of Bath, Department of Mathematical Sciences, 2004 – 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow and Emmy Noether Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, September 2003 – August 2004 Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, January 2002 – June 2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, September 2001 – August 2003 Selected awards and fellowships – Timoshenko Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 2004 – 2005 – Advanced Research Fellowship, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, October 2004 – September 2009 Selected grants – Leverhulme Trust, Visiting Professorship for Amit Acharya, 2014, £9 150 (with Hartmut Schwetlick, Karsten Matthies, Jey Sivaloganathan) – LMS Joint Research Group, ‘Analysis, Geometry and Stochastics for Planet Earth’, 2014, £1,960 (with Tobias Kuna, Darryl Holm) – GW4 Initiator Fund ‘Functional materials far from equilibrium’, 2014, £18,800 (with Chris Bowen, Isaac Chenchiah, Nicolas Dirr, David Wright) – The Leverhulme Trust, research grant ‘A novel passage from particles to PDEs far from equilibrium’, 1 February 2014 – 31 January 2017, £192 378 (with Nicolas Dirr) – EPSRC Responsive Mode, ‘Analysis of the effective long time-behaviour of molecular systems’, 18 June 2013 – 17 December 2015, £277,718 Johannes Zimmer 2 – Marie Curie FP7 Intra-European Fellowship ‘Microstructures in Dynamic and Anisotropic Systems’ (MIDAS) 1 August 2013 – 31 January 2015, e231,926 – ITN Fronts and Interfaces in Science and Technology (FIRST), 1 January 2010 – 31 December 2013, Investigator WPB7, Upscaling of interacting particle systems – Leverhulme Trust, Visiting Professorship for Mark Peletier, 2009, £29 590 – EPSRC network grant ‘Mathematical Challenges of Molecular Dynamics: A Mathematical-Chemical Forum’, 1 April 2008 – 31 March 2011, £78 234 (with Gero Friesecke, Saiful Islam, Ben Leimkuhler, Steve Wiggins) – EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship ‘Mathematical Analysis of the Static and Dynamic Behaviour of Materials with Phase Transitions and Microstructures’, 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2009, £271 225 – EPSRC grant ‘Mathematical Analysis of the Static and Dynamic Behaviour of Materials with Phase Transitions and Microstructures’, 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2007, £69 172 – Bath Institute for Complex Systems, Deputy Theme Manager, January 2005 – December 2009 – Emmy Noether Stipend (ca. e502 400), 2004 Selected presentations since 2010 – Oberwolfach conference ‘Variational Methods for Evolution’, Oberwolfach, 14 – 20 December 2014 Talk: The semi-infinite asymmetric exclusion process and conservation laws: large deviations via matrix products – Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery workshop ‘Entropy Methods, PDEs, Functional Inequalities, and Applications’, 29 June – 4 July 2014 – Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Programme ‘Mathematics for the Fluid Earth’, Workshop ‘Partial Differential Equations and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics’, 2 – 6 December 2013 Invited talk: From simple particle models to PDE dynamics (invited as long-time visitor for the entire duration of the programme, October–December 2013) – Oberwolfach Mini-Workshop ‘Inelastic and Non-equilibrium Material Behavior: from Atomistic Structure to Macroscopic Constitutive Relations’, Oberwolfach, 3 – 9 November 2013 Talk: Particles and their macroscopic evolution – Workshop ‘Solitons, Vortices, Minimal Surfaces and their Dynamics’, Mittag-Leffler Institute, Djursholm, 14 – 19 July 2013 Invited talk: Coherent motion in Hamiltonian lattices – Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery workshop ‘Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Mathematical Understanding and Numerical Simulation’, 11 – 16 November 2012 Invited talk: Scale-bridging from particles to diffusional gradient flows Johannes Zimmer 3 – Workshop ‘Averaging Methods for Multiscale Phenomena in Engineering Materials’ Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh 2 – 4 April 2012 Invited talk: Toward nonequilibrium: from particles to entropic gradient flows (NSF-funded workshop under auspices of NSF programme managers, aiming at evaluating recent progress and identifying future directions) – OxPDE-Royal Society International Seminar ‘Entropy and Convexity for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations’, Kavli Royal Society International Centre, 16 – 17 June 2011 Invited talk: Towards nonequilibrium thermodynamics: what can we learn from particle models? – Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery workshop ‘Rate-independent systems: Modeling, Analysis, and Computations’, 29 August – 3 September 2010 Invited talk: Rate-independent evolution for an elastic-plastic model of shape memory alloys and related function spaces – Oberwolfach conference ‘Microstructures in Solids: From Quantum Models to Continua’, Oberwolfach, 14 – 20 March 2010 Talk: A variational approach to the Hamiltonian boundary value problem In addition, since 2010 I have been invited to give presentations in Berlin (twice), Levico, Munich, Universit¨at Z¨rich (twice), Jerusalem, Barcelona, Heraklion, Rome (twice), Paris, Pittsburgh, Bremen, Urbana-Champaign, Leipzig, Anogia, Knoxville. Examiner for PhD theses St´ephane Capet, University of Warwick, January 2007 Steven Green, University of Bath, October 2009 Maan Abdul Kadhim Rasheed, Sussex University, September 2012 Michiel Renger, TU Eindhoven, February 2012 Manh Hong Duong, TU Eindhoven, September 2014 Recent teaching experience Director of Studies, MSc in Modern Applications of Mathematics, August 2010–July 2013 Courses taught at the University of Bath since 2010: – Methods for Differential Equations (2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15) – Mathematics 2 (2012–2013, 2013–14, 2014–15) – Topic Review in Applied Mathematics ( with Ch. Budd: 2010–11, 2011–2012, 2012–2013; 2014–15) – Analysis I (with E. P. Ryan) – Numerical Solution of PDEs I (Finite Elements) (2010–11, 2011–2012) Johannes Zimmer 4 Supervised postdoctoral scholars and students Supervision of postdoctoral scholars and Marie Curie Scholars – Daniel Sutton, since June 2014 – Marios-Georgios Stamatakis, since June 2014 – Nadia Ansini (Marie Curie Fellow), August 2013–January 2015 – Natalia Babych, May 2006–April 2007, postdoctoral scholar, working on the spectral analysis of singularly perturbed problems in thermoelasticity Supervision of postgraduate research students – Peter Embacher, since 2014 (Joint supervision with Nicolas Dirr, Cardiff) ˜ De Cote, University of Bath, since 2011 (Joint supervision – Horacio Gonzalez Duhart Munoz ¨ with Peter Morters) – Manh Hong Duong, TU Eindhoven, “Large deviation and variational approaches to generealized gradient flows”, 2010–2014 (Joint supervision with Mark A.Peletier) – Vaios Laschos, University of Bath, “Entropic Gradient flows on the Wasserstein space via large deviations from thermodynamic limits”, 2009–2013 (Joint supervision with Nicolas Dirr) – Daniel Sutton, University of Bath, “Microscopic Hamiltonian Systems and their Effective Description”, 2009–2013 (Joint supervision with Hartmut Schwetlick) – Carl-Friedrich Kreiner, PhD student, Universit¨at Leipzig, “A variational approach to travelling waves in chains with on-site potential”, 2004–2007 January 12, 2015