Rui António Loja Fernandes (July 20, 1965,

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) is a Portuguese mathematician working in the

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Education and career

Fernandes obtained a bachelor's degree in Physics Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (

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, Portugal) in 1988. He then moved to the USA and earned a master's degree in Mathematics in 1991 and a PhD in Mathematics in 1994 from the

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. His PhD thesis was entitled "''Completely Integrable bi-Hamiltonian Systems"'' and has been written under the supervision of

Peter J. Olver Peter John Olver (11 January 1952, Twickenham) is a British-American mathematician working in differential geometry. Education and career After moving to the USA in 1961, Olver obtained a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics at Brown Univer ...

. In 1994 he returned to Instituto Superior Técnico, where he worked first as Assistant Professor (1994-2002), and then as Associated Professor (2003-2007) and Full Professor (2007-2012). In 2012 he moved back to the USA and since then he is the Lois M. Lackner Professor of Mathematics at

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. In 2016, he became a Fellow of the

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"for contributions to the study of Poisson geometry and Lie algebroids, and for service to the mathematical community."

Research

Fernandes research focusses on

differential geometry Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multili ...

, more precisely on Poisson and symplectic geometry. Among his most well-known results are a solution to the long-standing problem of describing the obstructions to the integrability of Lie algebroids and a new geometric proof of Conn's linearization theorem, both written in collaboration with

Marius Crainic Marius Nicolae Crainic (February 3, 1973, Aiud) is a Romanian mathematician working in the Netherlands. Education and career Born in Aiud, Romania, Crainic obtained a bachelor's degree at Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca) in 1995. He the ...

. He is the author of more than 40 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and has supervised 6 PhD students as of 2021.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandes, Rui Loja 1965 births Living people People from Coimbra Instituto Superior Técnico alumni University of Illinois faculty 20th-century Portuguese mathematicians University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 21st-century Portuguese mathematicians