I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Arizona. Before becoming a Wildcat, I was a Visiting Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. I also held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Mathematics at North Carolina State University and worked as a Research Associate in the grouof Prof. Pierre Degond in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London. I received my Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Christian Schmeiser at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna.