Hinke         Professor of Applied Mathematics

Curriculum Vitae of Hinke Osinga

Distinctions/Honours


Employment history

October 2011present  Professor of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
March 2001September 2011 Professor of Nonlinear Mathematics, since August 2011
Reader in Mathematics, since August 2005
Lecturer in Mathematics, Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
September 2008April 2009 Visiting Scientist Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
January 2000March 2001 Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
June 1998December 1999 Postdoctoral Scholar, Control & Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
September 1996May 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
September 1991September 1995 Onderzoeker in Opleiding, The Netherlands Scientific Research Organization (NWO), at the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
September 1990September 1991 Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Academic qualifications

7 June 1996 Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; thesis title: Computing invariant manifolds: variations on the graph transform; advisors Henk W. Broer and Gert Vegter
29 August 1991M.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; thesis title: Design of a robustly stabilizing controller for a system with multiplicative uncertainty; advisor Ruth F. Curtain; title second thesis: Intermittent behavior during a Hopf bifurcation; advisor Floris Takens

Professional memberships

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap New Zealand Mathematical Society New Zealand Branch of ANZIAM Incorporated Dynamical Systems Web Portal
 

Current PhD students

Mashael Umar S Alharbi at the University of Auckland, since 1 March 2024; joint supervision with Marie Graff; funded by Marsden Fund grant 22-UOA-204 to study Modelling and Imaging of Tree Trunks to Detect and Prevent Disease Spread: Application to Grapevines
Sanaz Amani at the University of Auckland, since 1 March 2024; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by Marsden Fund grant 22-UOA-204 to study Geometric fingerprints of wild chaotic attractors
Md. Azmir Ibne Islam at the University of Auckland, since 1 October 2023; joint supervision with Claire Postlethwaite; funded by Marsden Fund grant 21-UOA-048 to study Travelling waves and spiral waves in models of non-transitive competition
Sam Doak at the University of Auckland, since 1 May 2023; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by Marsden Fund grant 22-UOA-204 to study Geometric models of wild chaos
Juan Patiño Echeverría at the University of Auckland, since 1 February 2022; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by a UoA Doctoral Scholarship to study Transitions to wild chaos in vector fields
Lorenzo Anoè at the University of Auckland, since 1 February 2022; joint supervision with Roberto Armellin (Mechanical Engineering) and Bernd Krauskopf; funded by a University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship to study Ballistic capture of satellites in the circular restricted three body system using curvilinear coordinates

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Kyoung Hyun Lee at the University of Auckland, since December 2022; joint management with Bernd Krauskopf and Neil Broderick; funded via the Science Core Self-Organisation of the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies

Former Postdoctoral Research Associates

Cris Hasan at the University of Auckland, January 2018 — December 2019; joint management with Claire Postlethwaite; funded by Faculty Research Development Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship grant Spirals and heteroclinic cycles in Rock–Paper–Scissors
Stefanie Hittmeyer at the University of Auckland, April 2014 — April 2020; joint management with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by UoA Faculty of Science Postdoctoral Research grant Hetero-dimensional cycles in systems with multiple time scales
Gemma Mason at the University of Auckland, July 2015 — March 2017; joint management with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by Faculty Research Development Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship grant Hunting for wild chaos
Thorsten Riess at the University of Bristol, June 2008 — December 2008; funded by EPSRC grant EP/C544048/1(P) Homoclinic and heteroclinic connections in systems with multiple timescales
Róbert Szalai at the University of Bristol, May 2006 — August 2008; funded by EPSRC grant EP/C544048/1(P) Tori and global manifolds in piecewise-smooth vector fields
Frank Schilder at the University of Bristol, October 2003 — February 2007; funded by EPSRC grant GR/R72020/01 Overcoming instabilities in helicopter dynamics

Former PhD Students

Dana C'Julio at the University of Auckland; thesis Emergence of blenders with different orientation properties submitted on 24 May 2024; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf to study Wild chaos, blenders and attractors
Nelson Wong at the University of Auckland; thesis Bifurcations of heterodimensional cycles submitted on 27 February 2024; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by Marsden Fund grant 16-UOA-286 to study Slow-fast dynamics and chaos in higher dimensions
James Hannam PhD from the University of Auckland on 29 August 2022; thesis title Isochron geometry in the presence of saddle objects; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by a Faculty of Science scholarship.
Elle Musoke PhD from the University of Auckland on 12 March 2021; thesis title Geometry of manifolds in the four-dimensional Olsen model; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by Marsden Fund grant 16-UOA-286.
Saeed Farjami PhD from the University of Auckland on 5 April 2018; thesis title Spike adding and the role of saddle slow manifolds; joint supervision with Vivien Kirk; funded by a Faculty of Science scholarship. Saeed's name was placed on the Dean of Graduate Studies List (Dean's List) in recognition of excellence achieved with his PhD thesis.
Cris Hasan PhD from the University of Auckland on 2 February 2018; thesis title Slow manifolds, canard orbits and the organisation of mixed-mode oscillations; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by a Faculty of Science scholarship.
José Mujica PhD from the University of Auckland on 14 December 2017; thesis title Interacting global invariant manifolds and slow manifolds in slow-fast systems; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by a Faculty of Science scholarship.
Andrus Giraldo PhD from the University of Auckland on 6 December 2017; thesis title Global invariant manifolds and their interactions in the neighborhood of a homoclinic flip bifurcation; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by a Faculty of Science scholarship.
Peter Langfield PhD from the University of Auckland on 13 July 2015; thesis title The geometry of isochrons in planar systems; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by a Faculty of Science scholarship.
Jennifer Creaser PhD from the University of Auckland on 18 June 2015; thesis title The Lorenz system near the loss of the foliation condition; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by a Faculty of Science scholarship.
Stefanie Hittmeyer PhD from the University of Auckland on 29 April 2014; thesis title Bifurcations of invariant sets in a model of wild chaos; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by UoB and UoA scholarships. Stefanie's name was placed on the Dean of Graduate Studies List (Dean's List) in recognition of excellence achieved with her PhD thesis.
Pablo Aguirre PhD from the University of Bristol on 15 May 2012; thesis title: The role of global invariant manifolds of vector fields at homoclinic bifurcations; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by an ORS and a CONICYT grant.
Jakub Nowacki PhD from the University of Bristol on 15 May 2012; thesis title: Dynamical systems analysis of intrinsic excitability of neural cells; joint supervision with Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova and Andrew Randall; funded by EPSRC grant EP/E032249/1.
Clare Lee PhD from the University of Bristol on 20 january 2010; thesis title: Tangency bifurcations of global Poincaré maps; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by an EPSRC DTA Studentship.
Mathieu Desroches PhD from the University of Bristol on 6 May 2009; thesis title: Numerical continuation methods for slow-fast dynamical systems; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by EPSRC grant EP/C544048/1(P) Global invariant manifolds: applications, critical boundaries and global bifurcations.
James England PhD from the University of Bristol on 17 November 2005; thesis title: Advances in computing global invariant manifolds; joint supervision with Bernd Krauskopf; funded by EPSRC grant GR/R94572/01.
Reza Rokni Lamooki PhD from the University of Exeter on 7 December 2003; thesis title: Adaptive and non-linear control: bifurcation, computation and partial stabilisation; joint supervision with Stuart Townley.

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