Graduate Students

Ana Cristina Barroso, PhD 1994, Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Christopher Larsen PhD 1996, Associate Professor (with tenure) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Pedro Santos PhD 2003, Associate Professor at the Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
Marian Bocea PhD 2004, Associate Professor at Loyola University Chicago
Cristina Popovici PhD 2004. Visiting Professor at Loyola University Chicago
Margarida Baia PhD 2005, Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
Graca Carita PhD 2007, Assistant Professor at the University of Evora (Portugal). Deceased
Bernardo Sousa PhD 2008. Co-supervised with Giovanni Leoni. University of Toronto (Canada)
Rita Ferreira PhD 2011. Graduate student in the ICTI CMU-Portugal program in Applied Mathematics, co-supervised with Luisa Mascarenhas; Postdoc at KAUST (Saudi Arabia)
Paolo Piovanni PhD 2012. Co-supervised with Giovanni Leoni. Postdoc at the University of Vienna (Austria)
Laura Bufford  PhD 2015. Epic Corp.
Matteo Rinaldi PhD 2017. Co-supervised with Giovanni Leoni
Pan Liu PhD 2017. Postdoc at the University of Cambridge (UK)
Giles Shaw, Cambridge University (UK), visited April-June 2015 
Adrian Hagerty, 2015-present
Kerrek Stinson, 2018 - present

Postdoctoral Fellows

Piotr Rybka, Warsaw University (Poland)
Wilfrid Gangbo, UCLA
Markos Katsoulakis, University of Massachusetts
Pieter Swart, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland
Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University
Georg Dolzman, Regensburg Uniersity (Germany)
Rustum Choksi, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
Misha Shvartsman, St. Thomas College, Minnesota
Roberto Paroni, University of Sassari (Italy)
Fabio Bagagiolo, University of Trento (Italy)
Roberto Alicandro, University of Cassino (Italy)
Chiara Leone, University of Naples (Italy)
Marc-Oliver Rieger, University of Zuerich (Germany)
Massimiliano Morini. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. University of Parma (Italy)
Valeriy Slastikov. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. University of Bristol (United Kingdom)
Vincent Millot. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. University Paris VI (France)
Ana Margarida Ribeiro, CMU|Portugal Program in Applied Mathematics, University Nova (Portugal)
Marco Barchiesi. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. CMU|Portugal Program in Applied Mathematics, 2007 – 2009. University of Naples (Italy)
Filippo Cagnetti. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. CMU|Portugal Program in Applied Mathematics, 2007 – 2009. Postdoc at the Austin|Portugal Program International Collaboratory for Emerging Technologies. U. Sussex (UK)
Stefan Kroemer, Postdoc at the Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Milena Chermisi. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. CMU|Portugal Program in Applied Mathematics, 2009 Industrial position in Milan (Italy)
Carolin Kreisbeck, CMU|Portugal Program in Applied Mathematics, 2010 – 2012. University of Regensburg (UK)
Barbara Zwicknagl, 2010-2012. University of Wuerzburg (Germany)
Marco Morandotti. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. CMU|Portugal Program in Applied Mathematics, 2011 – 2014.  Postdoc at TU Munich (Germany)
Gurgen Hayrapetyan, 2011 – 2014. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. Ohio University.
Timothy Blass, 2011 – 2014. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. Data Scientist at Capital One. 
Elisa Davoli, 2012 – 2015. Postdoctoral Fellow at U. Vienna, Austria. 
Xin Yan Lu, 2014 – 2015 . Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni and Dejan Slepcev.
Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) 
Emanuel Indrei, 2014 – 2016.  Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. Purdue University.
Marco Caroccia, 2015 – 2017.  CMU|Portugal postdoc, co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Portugal). 
Laurent Dietrich, 2015 – 2017. PIRE and CNA postdoc, co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni and David Kinderlehrer. Faculty member at the University of Metz/Nancy (France). 
Riccardo Cristoferi, 2015 – 2018
Lei Wu, 2015 – 2018. PIRE postdoc. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni and Ian Tice. 
Peter Gladbach,  2016-2017. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni. Postdoctotal Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig (Germany). 
Janusz Ginster, 2016-2019. PIRE and CNA postdoc. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni.
Ethan O’Brien, 2017-2020. CNA postdoc. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni.
Stephan Wojtowytsch, 2017-2020. CNA postdoc. Co-mentored with Giovanni Leoni.




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