Last updated: 2010-02-19

Curriculum vitae


I. Personal details

Born: 22. March 1975, Bălan, Harghita county, Romania
Employment: associate professor, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Management, Department of Administrations, Cluj-Napoca, Extension of Sfântu Gheorghe
Marital status: married, two children: Marót (29. June 2001) and Boróka (19. September 2003)
Telephone: +40-741-189045
E-mail: [email protected]

II. Studies

  • 1989–1993: high-school, Márton Áron High-school, Miercurea Ciuc, Harghita County, Romania
  • 1993–1997: B.Sc, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 1997–1998: M.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Analysis and Optimization, Cluj-Napoca
  • 1998–2003: Ph.D., Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Analysis and Optimization, Cluj-Napoca. The title of the thesis: Critical and equilibrium points for set-valued maps. Scientific supervisor: dr. Wolfgang W. Breckner professor.
  • 2000–2005: Ph.D., University of Debrecen, Institute of Mathematics, Department of Geometry, Debrecen. The title of the thesis: Non-smooth critical point theories with applications in elliptic problems and the theory of geodesics. Scientific supervisor: dr. Kozma László associate professor.


III. Scientific career

  • 1998–2003: assistant lecturer, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Analysis and Optimization, Cluj-Napoca
  • 2003–2007: lecturer, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Economics and Business Management, Department of Administrations, Cluj-Napoca, Extension of Sfântu Gheorghe
  • 2007– …: associate professor, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Economics and Business Management, Department of Administrations, Cluj-Napoca, Extension of Sfântu Gheorghe


IV. Research domain: critical point theory, Riemann-Finsler geometry, partial differential equations

V. Scientific activity (research projects)

  • 2005: coordinator of the “Study of critical points for Ricceri-type functionals” research project, financed by the Sapientia Fund’s Research Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 2006-2007: coordinator of the “Study of elliptic problems via critical point theory” research project (AT 7/80, CNCSIS) run by the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 2007-2010: coordinator of the “Application of variational methods in the theory of partial differential equations” research project (PN II IDEI-527, CNCSIS) run by the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania


VI. Teaching activity

a) At the Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Management, Department of Administrations, Extension of Sfântu Gheorghe:

  • Introduction to Mathematical Economics (1st semester, B.Sc.-level, mandatory)
  • Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (2nd semester, B.Sc.-level, mandatory)
  • Game Theory (1st semester, B.Sc.-level, optional)
  • Introduction to Econometrics (2nd semester, B.Sc.-level, optional)


b) At the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary:

  • Optimization in Economics (Fall semester, M.Sc.-level, optional)
  • Topics in Financial Mathematics (Winter semester, M.Sc.-level, optional)



VII. Scientific honours

Scientific honours:

  • 1992: International Hungarian Mathematical Competition, 2nd prize, Komárom, Hungary
  • 1993: International Hungarian Mathematical Competition, 1st prize, Vác, Hungary
  • 2007: Diploma for Scientific Achievements, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania


Post-doc fellowships (selective list):

  • 2003–2004: Young Researcher, Geometrical Analysis, EU Research Training Network PRN-CT-999-00118/2000-2004, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Stefan Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2005: Professori Visitatori, INDAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica), Universita di Catania, Catania, Italy
  • 2005–2006: Domus Hungarica, University of Debrecen, Debrecen
  • 2005–2006: Junior Research Fellowship, Central European University, Special and Extension Programs, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2009: Professori Visitatori, INDAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica), Universita di Catania, Catania, Italy
  • 2009-2012: Bolyai János Research Fellowship, MTA, Budapest, Hungary


Fellowships:

  • 1999-2000: CEEPUS, Kossuth Lajos University, Institute of Mathetmatics, Debrecen, Hungary
  • 2002: CEEPUS, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
  • 2002: „Financial Mathematics, Non-Smooth Analysis, and Game Theory, DAAD „Akademischer Neuaufbau Südosteuropa”, Bankya, Bulgary
  • 2004: CEEPUS, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
  • 2005: „Two weeks on Global Analysis”, Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy


Important Summer Schools (presentation / participation):

  • 1997: Nonlinear modelation, Braşov, Romania
  • 2001: Winter School on Abstract Analysis, Lhota nad Rohanovem, Bohemia. Title of presentation: Coerciveness property for a class of set-valued mappings
  • 2003: Workshop and Conference on Recent Trends in Nonlinear Variational Problems, Abdus Salam ICPT, Trieste, Italy
  • 2006: Mini-workshop: Recent advances in calculus of variations, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Title of presentation: One-dimensional scalar field equations involving an oscillatory nonlinear term
  • 2006: Mini-workshop: Some Advances in Applied Mathematics, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Title of presentation: Quasilinear elliptic problems with oscillatory nonlinearities
  • 2007: Workshop: Topological and variational methods for differential equations, University of Rousse, Rousse, Bulgary. Title of presentation: Sublinear eigenvalue problems on compact Riemannian manifolds with applications in Emden-Fowler equations
  • 2007: International Workshop on Applied Evolution Equations, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Title of presentation: Homoclinic solutions for an elliptic problem in RN with oscillatory terms
  • 2007: Workshop on Critical Point Theory and its Applications, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Title of presentation: Asymptotically critical problem on higher dimensional spheres
  • 2008: Spring School in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Title of presentation: Detection of arbitrarily many solutions for perturbed elliptic problems involving oscillatory terms


Invited lecturer:

  • 2002: University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary. Title of presentation: Ky Fan type minimax inequalities for set-valued maps with applications
  • 2002: Bolyai Institute, Szeged, Hungary. Title of presentation: Metric relations on Berwald manifolds of non-positive flag curvature
  • 2002: National Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Cluj-Napoca. Title of presentation: Nash Equilibrium points for set-valued maps (in Romanian)
  • 2004: Technical University of Warsaw, Poland. Title of presentation: Some aspects on Finsler geometry
  • 2004: International Conference on Economics, Law and Management, Tîrgu Mureş, Romania. Title of presentation: Metric characterization of Berwald spaces of non-positive flag curvature
  • 2004: International Conference in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (ICNODEA), Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Title of presentation: Multiplicity results for an igenvalue problem for hemivariational inequalities in strip-like domains
  • 2005: Universita di Messina, Italy. Title of presentation: Multiple solutions of certain elliptic problems on unbounded strips
  • 2005: Universita di Reggio Calabria, Italy. Title of presentation: Infinitely many homoclinic solutions for an elliptic problem in RN
  • 2005: The 22th IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Title of presentation: Infinitely many solutions for a differential inclusion problem in RN
  • 2005: The 5th ISAAC Congress, University of Catania, Italy (invited main speaker). Title of presentation: Elliptic eigenvalue problems on unbounded domains involving sublinear terms
  • 2005: Central European University, Department of Mathematics and its Applications, Budapest, Hungary. Title of presentation: Multiple solutions of sublinear elliptic problems in RN
  • 2006: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. Title of presentation: Infinitely many solutions for an one-dimensional scalar field equation
  • 2006: University of Rousse, Rousse, Bulgary. Title of presentation: Nonradial sign changing solutions for quasilinear elliptic equations
  • 2007: University of Perpignan, Perpignan, France. Title of presentation: Sublinear eigenvalue problems on compact Riemannian manifolds
  • 2007: Universita di Messina, Italy. Title of presentation: Sublinear eigenvalue problems on compact Riemannian manifolds
  • 2007: Universita di Catania, Italy. Title of presentation: Asymptotically critical problems on spheres
  • 2007: International Conference in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (ICNODEA), Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Title of presentation: Elliptic problems in RN involving oscillatory nonlinearities
  • 2008: Central European University, Department of Mathematics and its Applications, Budapest, Hungary. Title of presentation: Best approximation problems on Finsler-Riemann manifolds
  • 2009: Universita di Messina, Italy. Title of presentation: Arbitrary many solutions for a perturbed problem
  • 2009: Universita di Catania, Italy. Title of presentation: On a new class of elliptic systems with nonlinearities of arbitrary growth
  • 2009: ELTE, Department of Geometry, Hungary. Title of presentation: Metric projections and Nash equilibrium points on Riemann-Finsler manifolds



VIII. Membership (Professional Societies / Editorial Board of Scientific Journals)

Memberships:
- member of American Mathematical Society
- member of public body of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- member of the Cluj Academic Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Science
- member of the Farkas Gyula Mathematical Society
- referee of national projects (CNCSIS, Bucharest)

Journals:
- Member of the referee board of the following ISI journals:
•    Journal of Global Optimization
•    Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
•    Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications
•    Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
•    Glasgow Mathematical Journal
•    Acta Mathematica Hungarica
•    Applicable Analysis
•    Applied Mathematics Letters
•    Carpathian Mathematical Journal
•    Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
•    Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics
- Member of the referee board of the following non-ISI journals:
•    Advances in Dynamical Systems and Applications
•    Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control
•    Mathematica (Cluj-Napoca)


IX. Language skills

  • Hungarian – mother tongue
  • Romanian – fluent
  • English– TOEFL: 237 points (Computer Based Test) & Pitman Qualification Certificate
  • French - good