Piotr T. Chruściel, Univ.-Prof., MSc PhD

Professor of Gravitational Physics at the Faculty of Physics

Curriculum vitae

born 1957, Zabrze, Poland
1975 "Certificat de Maturité" (baccalauréat) at Collège Rousseau, Geneva, Switzerland
1980 Graduated from the Department of Physics, Warsaw University
1980-1985 PhD student, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
1983 Participant of the "Relativity, Groups and Topology II", les Houches Summer School
1984 French Gouvernement Scholarship at Université Paris VI
1986 PhD in Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
1985-1996 Research Position, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
1987-1987 "Maître de Conférence", Department of Mathematics, Université de Tours, France
1987-1989 Research Associate Physicist, Physics Department, Yale University
1988 Visiting Fellow, Center of Mathematical Analysis, Australian National University, Canberra
1989 Visiting Member, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
1990 Visiting Fellow, Center for Mathematical Analysis, Australian National University, Canberra
1991-1992 Australian Research Council Senior Research Associate position, Center for Mathematical Analysis, Australian National University, Canberra
1992 "Professeur invité au contingent national", Department of Mathematics, Tours University, France
1992-1993 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Garching
1993 Habilitation Thesis: "Asymptotic problems in general relativity", Scientific Council of the Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
1993 Visiting Research Physicist, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
1993-1994 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Garching
since 1994 Professor of Mathematics  at the Département of Mathematics, Université de Tours, France
1998 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Albert Einstein Institute for Gravitation, Potsdam
2005 EPSRC Fellowship, Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge
2006 Research Fellowship at the Albert Einstein Institute for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Institute, Golm
since 2007 Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, University lecturer with title of Professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
since April 2010 Professor of Gravitational Physics, Working Group of Gravitational Physics, University of Vienna

Research Areas

* All mathematical problems that arise in Einstein's theory of gravitation
* Partial differential equations of mathematical physics
* Global differential geometric problems in physics