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Short Bio

Positions held

  • Since October 2024 : Full Professor (Professeur Ordinaire), Université Libre de Bruxelles.
  • October 2017 - September 2024: Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
  • July 2016 - September 2017: Associate Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
  • February 2013 - June 2016: Associate Professor in Mathematics, The University of Auckland.
  • August 2011 - January 2013: Senior Lecturer above the bar in Mathematics, The University of Auckland.
  • January 2004 - August 2011: Associate Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
  • October 2002 - December 2003: Assistant Professor (tenured), Université Libre de Bruxelles.

    Awards

  • August 2023 - July 2024: Scholarship of the University of Leipzig, Germany.
  • March and August 2022: Knut and Alice Wallenberg Guest Professor, Umea Universitet, Sweden.
  • Francois Deruyts Prize for the period 2014-2018, Classe des Sciences, Académie royale de Belgique.
  • 2014 New Zealand Mathematical Society Research Award.
  • 2007 Annual Prize in Mathematics, Classe des Sciences, Académie royale de Belgique.
  • Agathon De Potter Prize for the period 2000-2002, Classe des Sciences, Académie royale de Belgique.

    Significant Grants

  • ARC Advanced Grant (Communauté Francaise de Belgique), "From algebra to combinatorics and back", 2020-2025, 660,000 euros.
  • Marsden grant (RSNZ), "Highly Symmetric Polytopes", 2013-2016, 580,000 NZD.
  • ARC Grant (Communauté Francaise de Belgique), "Hard combinatorial problems: Geometry and Algorithms", 2006-2011, 500,000 euros.
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