Mitia Duerinckx
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Positions
01/2022 - present   F.R.S.-FNRS Research Associate (CQ)
Université Libre de Bruxelles
10/2019 - present   CNRS Research Associate (CR): on leave since 01/2022
Université Paris-Saclay (LMO)
02/2019 - 09/2019   CNRS-Momentum program (3 years)
ENS Lyon (UMPA)
10/2018 - 01/2019   F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher (CR, 3 years)
Université Libre de Bruxelles & ENS Lyon (UMPA)
10/2014 - 09/2018   F.R.S.-FNRS Research Fellow (ASP, 4 years)
Université Libre de Bruxelles & Sorbonne Université (LJLL)
Visiting Positions
10/2020 - 09/2022   Visiting Assistant Professor
University of California, Los Angeles

Memberships in learned societies
2023 - 2027   Member of the Collegium of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (5 years)

Research Grants
05/2023 - 04/2028   ERC Starting Grant (5 years)
Title: Scaling limits of particle systems and microstructural disorder (PASTIS)
Grant value: €1,121,514
10/2020 - 09/2025   ARC Advanced Grant (5 years)
joint with D. Bonheure, A. Gloria, C. Grandmont, B. Premoselli
Title: Partial Differential Equations in Interaction
Grant value: €587,451
02/2019 - 12/2021   CNRS-Momentum trandisciplinary program (3 years)
Title: Emergence of irreversibility for several physical systems
Grant value: €180,000 and funding for 2-year postdoc position

Education
12/2017   PhD in Science
Université Libre de Bruxelles & Sorbonne Université (LJLL)
07/2014   Master of Science in Mathematics (summa cum laude, valedictorian)
Université Libre de Bruxelles
07/2012   Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (summa cum laude, valedictorian)
Université Libre de Bruxelles
07/2009   Secondary degree, Latin-Greek (summa cum laude, valedictorian)
Lycée Émile Jacqmain, Brussels

Awards
2021   BMS Young Scholar Award
Belgian Mathematical Society (BMS)
2019   Adolphe Wetrems Prize in Mathematics
Académie royale de Belgique
PhD Thesis Awards
2019   LMBP PhD Thesis Award in Applied Mathematics
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Blaise Pascal (LMBP), France
2018   Aguirre-Basualdo Prize in Sciences (Solemn PhD Thesis Award)
Chancellery of Paris Universities
2018   Olbrechts-Tyteca PhD Thesis Award
Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Undergraduate Student Awards
2016   Olbrechts-Tyteca Article Award
Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles
2014   AScBr First Prize (Master Thesis Award)
Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles
2012   Ruth and Joe Gani Prize (Best 3rd-year Student in Probability)
Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles
2012   Georges Sterpenich Prize (Best Bachelor Student in Mathematics)
Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles
2011   Fleurice Mercier Prize (Best 2nd-year Student in Sciences)
Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles
2010   Fleurice Mercier Prize (Best 1st-year Student in Sciences)
Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Invited talks
Talks at conferences and workshops
09/2023   Oberwolfach Workshop "Classical and Quantum Mechanical Models of Many-Particle Systems", Oberwolfach
08/2023   Minisymposium "Multi-scale analysis in random media", ICIAM, Tokyo
07/2023   CIRM Conference "Mathematical Justification for the Kinetic and Fluid Equations of Plasmas and self-gravitating systems", Marseille
06/2023   Workshop "Effective theories in classical and quantum particle systems", Les Diablerets
05/2023   Summer School "PDE and Randomness", MPI Leipzig
10/2022   Oberwolfach Workshop "Quantitative Stochastic Homogenization", Oberwolfach
10/2022   Workshop "Fluid-structure interactions", Bruxelles
06/2022   Conference STROM 2022, Strasbourg
06/2022   Journées ÉDP, Obernai
05/2022   Workshop "Living Active Matter", Penn State University
05/2022   PhD-day (BMS Young Scholar Lecture), Liège
04/2022   Conference "Interplay between Probability and Kinetic Theory", ICMS
05/2021   Minisymposium "Stochastic Homogenization", SIAM Materials 2021 (online)
03/2021   Oberwolfach Workshop "Homogenization theory: Periodic and Beyond" (online)
12/2020   Oberwolfach Workshop "Classical and Quantum Models of Many-Particle Systems" (online)
01/2020   Winter School "Turbulence in fluids and PDE", EPFL
10/2019   CIRM Conference "PDE/Probability Interactions", Marseille
07/2019   Minisymposium "Interacting particle systems", ICIAM, Valencia
07/2019   Minisymposium "Stochastic homogenization", EquaDiff Conference, Leiden
07/2019   Workshop "Paths between Probability, PDE, Physics", Imperial College London
05/2019   Minisymposium "Interacting particle systems", SMAI Conference, Guidel Plages
05/2019   Workshop "MathsInFluids", ENS de Lyon
03/2019   Journées Jeunes EDPistes, Rennes
07/2017   Workshop "Multiscale problems and relaxation in nonlinear elasticity", Dresden
03/2017   Mean-field Days, FRUMAM, Marseille
02/2016   Winterschool "Stochastic homogenization", Augsburg University
07/2015   Minisymposium "Stochastic homogenization", EquaDiff Conference, Lyon
07/2012   Brussels Summer School of Mathematics (BSSM)

Talks at seminars and colloquia
03/2023   Mathematical Physics Seminar, Université de Bourgogne
01/2023   Applied Analysis Seminar, TU Dortmund
11/2022   Analysis Seminar, Princeton University
10/2022   Mathematical Physics Seminar, Tubingen
04/2022   Los Angeles Probability Forum, Caltech
03/2022   PDE Seminar via Zoom, Chinese Academy of Sciences (online)
11/2021   CAM Colloquium, Penn State University
10/2021   Séminaire Laurent Schwartz, IHÉS
05/2021   PDE/Analysis Seminar, MIT (online)
01/2021   PDE and Math Physics Seminar, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (online)
12/2020   Analysis Seminar, EPFL (online)
12/2020   Analysis and Probability Seminar, Université Paris-Dauphine (online)
12/2020   SPDE Seminar, TU Berlin (online)
02/2020   Participating analysis seminar, University of California, Los Angeles
01/2020   Applied math seminar, Stanford University
10/2019   ANEDP seminar, Université Paris-Saclay
06/2019   ANEDP seminar, Université Paris-Saclay
04/2019   PDE and Probability seminar, Université Paul Sabatier
12/2018   Stochastic analysis seminar, Imperial College London
06/2018   Analysis seminar, TU Dresden
05/2018   Oberseminar Analysis/Probability, Max Planck Institute Leipzig
04/2018   Mathematical physics and Probability seminar, Courant Institute
04/2017   Journée interne du LJLL, Université Paris 7
04/2017   Mathematical physics and Analysis seminar, IST Austria
10/2016   CASA Colloquium, TU Eindhoven
09/2016   Applied analysis seminar, Max Planck Institute Leipzig
05/2016   CalVa Workshop, Université Paris 6
03/2015   ANEDP seminar, Université Lille 1
12/2014   Applied analysis seminar, Max Planck Institute Leipzig
04/2013   Probability seminar, Luxembourg University
03/2012   Statistics and Econometrics seminar, Université Lille 3

Organization of conferences and workshops
11/2023   Workshop "New trends in homogenization", Roscoff
co-organized with Antoine Gloria
04/2022   CIRM Conference "Proba/PDE Interactions" (3rd edition), Marseille
co-organized with Max Fathi, Ben Gess, Arnaud Guillin, and Marielle Simon
10/2021   IHÉS Workshop "Large-Scale Limits of Interacting Particle Systems", Paris
co-organized with Sergio Simonella and Raphael Winter
12/2020   Workshop "Collective Behavior of Particles in Fluids" (online)
09/2019   Summer School "Scaling Limits and Kinetic Theory", ENS Lyon
co-organized with Laure Saint-Raymond and Sergio Simonella

Supervision of PhD students and postdocs
Postdocs
2023-2024    Corentin Le Bihan (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
2023-2024    Matthieu Ménard (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
2023-2024    Elise Bonhomme (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
co-supervised with Antoine Gloria
2020-2022    Armand Bernou (Sorbonne Université, LJLL)
co-supervised with Antoine Gloria
2019-2021    Christopher Shirley (Université Paris-Saclay, LMO)

Reviewing activities
Referee for the following journals:
J. Amer. Math. Soc., J. Eur. Math. Soc., Duke Math. J., Astérisque, Comm. Math. Phys., Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., Ann. Probab., Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire, J. Math. Pures Appl., J. Differential Equations, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, J. Stat. Phys., SIAM J. Math. Anal., SIAM J. Numer. Anal., J. Nonlinear Sci., Commun. Contemp. Math., Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., Electron. J. Probab., Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., Bull. Sci. Math., Asymptot. Anal., Rend. Lincei Mat. Appl., C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris

Prizes in competitions for high school or university students
2011   Gold medal (team ULB-Brussels) at the iGEM Competition
2008 & 2009   First Prize at the Belgian Latin Version Competition (CPEONS, Brussels)
2008 & 2009   First Prize at the Belgian Greek Version Competition (Namur)