Contact

nachbin@impa.br
tel:  55-21-25295214
fax: 55-21-25295075

Address

Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Est. D. Castorina, 110, J.Botânico, 22460-320 
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Positions

Assistant--Full Professor: IMPA, 1994--present.
Visiting Professor: Math. Dept., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015-2016.
Assistant Professor: Math. Dept., New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1992-1994.
Instructor (postdoc):   Math. Dept., Ohio State University, 1989-1992.

Education

PhD in Math.:       Courant Institute, NYU, 1989,                     with Prof. George Papanicolaou.
MSc in Civil Eng.:  Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ/COPPE, 1984, with Prof. Luiz C. Wrobel.
BSc  in Civil Eng.:  Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ,  1980

Member of Editorial Board/Membro Corpo Editorial

SIAM J. Applied Mathematics  2003--2014
Comput.&Applied.Math.(Brazilian Soc.Comp.Appl.Math/SBMAC; Springer) 2007--2015
Journal of Mathematics in Industry (Springer) 2010--...

Honors

2006 - National Medal of Scientific Merit/Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (Comendador)
           by President Lula.
Sept. 2013--Feb. 2014: David Parkin Visiting Professor at the Univ. of Bath, UK.
           at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
2014 - Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences/Membro Titular da Acad. Bras. Ciências

Commitees

2005--2007: Member of the Math. Committee/CAPES; funding agency of the Ministry of
                    Education/Membro do CA-Matemática (CAPES).
2008--2010:  Head of Graduate Studies/Coordenador do Ensino, IMPA.
2011--2013:  Member of the Math. Committee/CNPq; funding agency of the Ministry of
                    Science and Technology/Membro do CA-Matemática (CNPq).
2011--2018 :  Member of IMPA’s Board of Advisors/Membro do Conselho de
                    Administração do IMPA.
2012--2015 :  Member of the Board of Advisors for the Rio de Janeiro State funding
                     agency FAPERJ/ Membro do Conselho Superior da FAPERJ.

2018--        :  Mathematics Coordinator for the Rio de Janeiro State funding
                     agency FAPERJ/ Coordenador da Matemática da FAPERJ.

2018--        :  Manager of Planning and Projects (IMPA)
                        Gerente de Planejamento e Projetos (IMPA).

2019--2020: elected Program Director for the SIAM Activity Group on Nonlinear

                       Waves and Coherent Structures (NWCS).