{"id":14,"date":"2016-01-14T22:12:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T22:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolver.net\/home\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:37:23","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nolver.net\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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News<\/h2>\n

The Department of Mathematics at LSE is hiring in Optimization! The deadline is 3 December 2025, and you can find details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About me<\/h3>\n

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics<\/a> at the London School of Economics and Political Science<\/a> (here is my LSE profile<\/a>). I have been awarded a VIDI grant, a TOP grant, and a VENI grant (now completed) by the NWO (the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research).<\/p>\n

I previously held a faculty position at the Department of Econometrics & Operations Research at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with a part-time position at CWI. Before this, I spent three years an Applied Mathematics Instructor at MIT, under the mentorship of Michel Goemans. I was a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, advised by Bruce Shepherd and Adrian Vetta. My undergraduate education was at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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I work primarily in combinatorial optimization, with excursions into game theory and probability. See the research<\/a> and publications<\/a> sections of this homepage for more.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Positions<\/h3>\n
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    present<\/span>2021<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

    Associate Professor<\/h4>

    London School of Economics and Political Science<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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    2021<\/span>2019<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

    Assistant Professor<\/h4>

    London School of Economics and Political Science<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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    2019<\/span>2018<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

    Associate Professor<\/h4>

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & CWI<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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    2018<\/span>2013<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

    Assistant Professor<\/h4>

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & CWI<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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    2013<\/span>2010<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

    Instructor in Applied Mathematics<\/h4>

    MIT<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>

    Education<\/h3>\n
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      PhD<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t2010<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

      PhD in Applied Mathematics<\/p>

      McGill University<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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      MSc<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t2006<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

      Masters in Applied Mathematics<\/p>

      McGill University<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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      BSc (Hons)<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t2004<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

      Bachelors degree, majoring in Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics<\/p>

      University of Cape Town<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Grants<\/h3>\n
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        2018 - 2025<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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        NWO VIDI grant - ``Usable algorithms for network optimization``<\/div>
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        \n\t\t A competitive grant awarded by the NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) to pursue fundamental research and start a group.\n\t\t <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
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        2016<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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        NWO TOP grant<\/div>
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        \n\t\t Awarded by the NWO (Dutch Science Foundation), this grant funds a PhD position.\n\t\t <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
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        2013 - 2016<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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        NWO VENI grant - ``Robustness and connectivity in network design``<\/div>
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        \n\t\t A competitive personal grant awarded by the NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) to pursue fundamental research.\n\t\t <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
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        2011 - 2014<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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        NSF grant ``New Approaches to Fundamental Problems in Network Design``<\/div>
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        \n\t\t I was a co-PI of this grant, along with Michel Goemans and Rico Zenklusen.\n\t\t <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News The Department of Mathematics at LSE is hiring in Optimization! The deadline is 3 December 2025, and you can [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-pagebuilder.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolver.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolver.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolver.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolver.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolver.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nolver.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/nolver.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolver.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}