Education:
Ph.D. Courant Institute - New York University, 1982.
Thesis Advisors: Sergiu Klainerman and Louis Nirenberg.
M.S. Courant Institute - New York University, 1980.
B.S. Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1976.
Honors:
Fulbright Scholar (Brazil May-June 2020)
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.
Highly Cited Researcher (SIHighlyCited.com Thomson Reuters).
Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998.
Invited Address at the AMS meeting at Eugene, Oregon Nov. 1996.
Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Award in Sciences, Polar Foundation, Venezuela, 1987.
Positions Held:
Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara, July 1991-present.
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, 1989 - 1991.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1986 - 1989.
Assistant Professor, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central Venezuela, 1984 - 1986.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 1982 - 1984.
Instructor, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central Venezuela, 1976-1978.
Visiting Appointments:
Visiting Professor at DIM, Universidad de Chile, July 2019
Visiting Professor at IMPA, Rio do Janeiro, June 2019
Visiting Professor at IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France (May-June 2016)
Visiting Professor at IMPA, Ciencia sem Fronteiras, Brazil (July-August 2013-2015)
Visiting Professor at Basque Center for Appl. Math. Bilbao, Spain, Jan. 2015.
Visiting Professor at Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, Feb.-March 2012.
Visiting Professor at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Feb.-June 2011.
Visiting Professor at IMPA, Escola de Altos Estudos, Rio do Janeiro, Jan. 2010.
Visiting Professor at Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), Paris, May-June 2009.
Visiting Professor at Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, Jan.-March 2004.
Visiting Professor at Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, June-July 2003.
Visiting Professor at IMPA, Rio do Janeiro, June 2002.
Visiting Professor at MSRI, Berkeley, Sept. 2001.
Iberdrola Professor at Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain, Sept.-Dec. 98.
Visiting Professor at Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, June-July 97.
Visiting Professor at University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, May-June 89.
Former PhD students:
Felipe Linares, (Penn. State Univ. 1992).
Daniella Bekiranov, (University of California, Santa Barbara 1996).
German Fonseca, (University of California, Santa Barbara 1999).
Wee-Keong Lim, (University of California, Santa Barbara 2003).
Liana Dawson, (University of California, Santa Barbara 2007).
Joules Nahas, (University of California, Santa Barbara 2010).
Cynthia Flores, (University of California, Santa Barbara 2014).
Derek L. Smith, (University of California, Santa Barbara 2016).
Postdocs:
Takayoshi Ogawa, Tohoku University, Japan, 1994-1996.
Helena McGahagan, University of California Santa Barbara, 2004-2008.
Luiz G. Farah, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2009-2010.
Hayato Miyazaki, Nat. Inst. of Technology, Tsuyama College, Japan, 2017-2018
Editorial Boards:
Differential and Integral Equations, 2002-present.
Nagoya Mathematical Journal, 2003-2010.
Transactions of the AMS, 2006-2014.
Memoirs of the AMS, 2006-2014.
Revista Colombiana de Matemáticas, 2007-present.
Advances in Differential Equations, 2011-present
Sao Paulo Journal of Mathematical Science, 2018-present
Journal of Nonlinear Analysis 2020-present
Journal of Geometric Analysis (Associate Editor) 2021-present