Christian Offen, PhD, Massey University, New Zealand

01.08.2025: Assistant Professor (Research and Teaching, tenure-track)

University of Birmingham, School of Mathematics, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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01.05.2025 - 31.07.2025: Postdoctoral Researcher

Paderborn University, Department of Mathematics. Group Numerical Mathematics and Control (Prof. Sina Ober-Blöbaum).

15.08.2022 - 30.04.2024: Senior Researcher

Paderborn University, Institute of Mathematics, project "Photonic Quantum Computing", Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, group Numerical Mathematics and Control (Prof. Sina Ober-Blöbaum)

24.08.2020 - 14.08.2022: Postdoctoral Researcher

Paderborn University, Department of Mathematics. Group Numerical Mathematics and Control (Prof. Sina Ober-Blöbaum).

04.11.2016 - 23.09.2020: PhD in Mathematics

Massey University, New Zealand. Thesis: Analysis of Hamiltonian boundary value problems and symplectic integration, advisor: Dist. Prof. Robert McLachlan. (2019 - Hatherton Award,   2020 - Dean's List of Exceptional Theses)

10/2014 - 09/2016: Master of Science Mathematics

University of Hamburg, Master studies. Thesis: Seiberg-Witten Curves and Parabolic Affine Spheres (Differential Geometry), advisor: Prof. Dr. Vicente Cortés

10/2011 - 09/2014: Bachelor of Science Mathematics

University of Hamburg, Bachelor studies. Thesis: Classification of solutions of the Monge-Ampère equation in the finitely punctured plane (Differential Geometry), advisor: Prof. Dr. Vicente Cortés

21.08.2020: Thesis Award

Honour of inclusion of my doctoral thesis in the Dean’s List of Exceptional Doctoral Theses as the only thesis in the subject of Mathematics in 2020.

17.10.2019: Hatherton Award 2019

Best scientific paper by a PhD student at any New Zealand university in chemical sciences, physical sciences, mathematical and information sciences - Royal Society of New Zealand (Hatherton Award 2019)

06.12.2017: Aitken Prize (Honorary mention)

Honorary mention in the Aitken Prize of the New Zealand Mathematical Society for the talk "Bifurcations of solutions to Hamiltonian boundary value problems"

01.05.2014: German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Award of a scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

17.05.2011: Award by the German Mathematical Society (Abiturpreis)

Award for outstanding highschool graduates by the German Mathematical Society