Dr. Christina Surulescu

Applied Analysis Group

• Fluid-structure  interactions
• Fluid dynamics; theory of Navier-Stokes equations
• Structural mechanics; theory of elasticity
• Differential equations (ODEs, PDEs)
  
• Existence and regularity theory for differential equations
• Numerical methods for ODEs and PDEs
• Stochastic differential equations (SDEs)
• Stochastic processes and diffusions
• Mathematical models for cellular signal transduction
• Physiological flows
• Biomechanics
• Statistics and their applications (e.g., bioequivalence)
• Optimization.
  

• (with U. Klingmüller and N. Surulescu), Some databased stochastic models for the JAK-STAT signal transduction pathway (in preparation).

• The instationary motion of a Navier-Stokes fluid through a vessel with an elastic cover, IWR Preprint, 2005, University of Heidelberg.
• (with N. Surulescu) A note on an individual bioequivalence setting, (submitted)
  
• Mathematical analysis of the time dependent motion of a fluid through a tube with flexible walls, IWR Preprint, 2005, University of Heidelberg.
• The Stationary Motion of a Navier-Stokes Fluid Through an Elastic Tube Revisited, IWR/SFB 359 Preprint 39 (2004), University of Heidelberg (submitted)
  
• On the Stationary Motion of a   Stokes Fluid in a Thick Elastic Tube: A 3D/3D Interaction Problem, 2004 (submitted).
• Modeling Aspects and Mathematical Analysis of Some Fluid-Elastic Structure Interaction Problems, Dissertation, 2004, University of Heielberg.
• On the Stationary Motion of an Incompressible Fluid Flow Through an Elastic Tube in 3D, IWR/SFB Preprint 06 (2003), University of Heidelberg.
• On the Pathwise Uniqueness of Solutions of Stochastic
  Differential Equations, Portugaliae Mathematica vol.55 No.4 (1998), p. 451-456.
• Problems of the weak solutions for the equations of the Darcy-Boussinesq convection, M.Sc. Thesis, 1998, West University of Timisoara.
•  The Cauchy Problem for Seismic Wave Propagation, Analele Univ. de Vest din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica,
  Vol. XXXV, Issue 2 (1997), p. 299-305.

• ComReF January 2005, Heidelberg: A stationary fluid-elastic structure interaction problem in 3D
• Prague-Heidelberg Workshop, November 2004, Prague: On the motion of a Navier-Stokes fluid through a vessel with an elastic cover
• DMV Tagung, September 2004, Heidelberg: On a 3D/2D time dependent fluid-elastic structure interaction problem
• Workshop "Modelling and Simulation of Haemodynamics", May 2004, Heidelberg: On a time dependent fluid-structure interaction problem
• Symposium on Modeling of Physiological Flows, September 2003, EPFL Lausanne: On the stationary motion of an incompressible fluid flow in an elastic tube in 3D
• Prague-Heidelberg Workshop, December 2001, Heidelberg: On a three-dimensional steady-state fluid-structure interaction problem
  

Tutorials:


• ST 2005, University of Heidelberg: Partial Differential Equations
  
• WT 2004/2005, University of Heidelberg: Analysis 3 
• ST 2001, University of Heidelberg: Linear functional analysis 
• WT 1999-2000, University of Heidelberg: Analysis 3
• WT 1997-1998, West University of Timisoara: Partial Differential Equations for  Physics/Chemistry students
  
• WT 1997-1998,  West University of Timisoara: Theory of probabilities and statistics for Mathematics students
  
• ST 1997, Technical University of Timisoara: Differential equations for Electrical Engineering students
  

Seminars:


• ST 1998, West Univ. of Timisoara: Stochastic calculus, Brownian motion and applications to mathematical finance

• since Aug 2005: postdoc at BIOMS University of Heidelberg
• Jan. 2002-July 2005: research associate (BAT IIa/2), University of Heidelberg
• Nov. 2003-Oct. 2004: graduate assistant (experimental design and statistical data analysis),
DKFZ Heidelberg
• Oct. 1997-Oct. 1999: Instructor (didactical and research activities),West University of Timisoara
  

• Oct. 1999-Dec. 2001: PhD scholarship, Graduiertenkolleg Modeling and Scientific Computation in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, IWR, University of Heidelberg
• Oct. 1998-July 1999: DAAD Jahresstipendium at the Institute for Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg
• July 1996: TEMPUS scholarship of the EC for the Summer school Nonlinear Analysis and Modeling, Brasov (Romania)
  

•  German (native)
•  Romanian (native)
  
•  English, French, Esperanto
•  Italian, Spanish (only reading).

• Painting, drawing,  pottery, photography
  
• Reading: arts, history, travels, science popularization, (science) fiction
  
• Hiking, cycling

• about Romania and Transylvania
• Romanian press