Martina Chirilus-Bruckner
- Assistant Professor -

Mathematical Institute
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9512
2300 RA Leiden, THE NETHERLANDS

email: m.chirilus-bruckner -at- math.leidenuniv.nl

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Research field

Welcome! I am part of the Analysis Group at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University. My primary research interest is the analysis of applied nonlinear partial differential equations.

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Short bio I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2009 at the University of Karlsruhe, GER, (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) after my Diploma in "Technomathematik" 2006. Before joining Leiden University I held several postdoc and lecturer positions (Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica - Amsterdam (NL), Boston University - Boston (MA, U.S.A.), Brown University - Providence (RI, U.S.A.), Sydney University - Sydney (AUS)).

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Further activities

• Member of the Board of NDNS+ "Nonlinear Dynamics and Natural Systems Plus" NWO-Cluster of Mathematics"
• Founding Member of the NDNS+ SAG "Analysis of PDEs"
• Member of the Education Committee of the Mathematical Institute at Leiden University

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Preprints

• "Pattern formation in a Swift-Hohenberg equation with spatially periodic coefficients"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, J. Kamphuis. Preprint in review (2025)
  
  
• "Travelling front solutions in a spatially heterogeneous reaction-diffusion system"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, L. van Vianen, F. Veerman. Preprint in review (2025)
  
  

Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

• "Chaotic motion and singularity structures of front solutions in multi-component FitzHugh-Nagumo-type systems"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, J.D.M. Rademacher, P. van Heijster. Accepted in Communications of the American Mathematical Society (2025)
  
  
• "Stability of Breathers for a Periodic Klein-Gordon Equation"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, J. Cuevas-Maraver, P.G. Kevrekidis. Entropy 2024, 26(9), 756 (2024)
  
  
• "The existence of localized vegetation patterns in a systematically reduced model for dryland vegetation"
  O. Jaibi, M. Chirilus-Bruckner, A. Doelman, E. Meron. Physica D 412 132637 (2020)
  
  
• "Pulse solutions for an extended Klausmeier model with spatially varying coefficients"
  R. Bastiaansen, M. Chirilus-Bruckner, A. Doelman. SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst., 19(1):1–57 (2020)
  
  
• "Unfolding symmetric Bogdanov-Takens bifurcations for front dynamics in a reaction-diffusion system"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, P. van Heijster, J.D.M. Rademacher, H. Ikeda. J. Nonlinear Science 29 (6) p.2911-2953 (2019)
  
  
• "Diffusive stability for periodic metric graphs"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, D. Maier, G. Schneider. Math. Nach. 1–14 (2018)
  
  
• "Inverse spectral theory for uniformly open gaps in a weighted Sturm-Liouville problem"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, C.E. Wayne. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 427 (2), p. 1168-1189 (2015)
  
  
• "Butterfly catastrophe for fronts in a three-component reaction-diffusion system"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, A. Doelman, P. van Heijster, J.D.M. Rademacher. J. Nonlinear Sci. 25 (1), p. 87-129 (2015)
  
  
• "NLS approximation of time oscillatory long waves for equations with quasilinear quadratic terms"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, W.-P. Düll, G. Schneider. Math. Nachr.288, (2-3), p. 158–166 (2015)
  
  
• "sine-Gordon Equation:From Discrete to Continuum"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, C. Chong, J. Cuevas, P.G. Kevrekidis. The sine-Gordon Model and its Applications. Nonlinear Systems and Complexity, 10 , p. 31-57 (2014)
  
  
• "Validity of the KdV equation for the modulation of periodic traveling waves in the NLS equation"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, W.-P. Düll, G. Schneider. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 414 (1), p. 166-175 (2014)
  
  
• "Detection of standing pulses in periodic media by pulse interaction"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, G. Schneider. J. Diff. Eq. 253 (7) p. 2161-2190 (2012)
  
  
• "Rigorous description of macroscopic wave packets in infinite periodic chains of coupled oscillators by modulation equations"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, Ch. Chong, O. Prill, G. Schneider. Disc. Cont. Dyn. Sys. 5 (5) p. 879-901 (2012)
  
  
• "Breather solutions in periodic media"
  C. Blank, M. Chirilus-Bruckner, V. Lescarret and G. Schneider. Comm. Math. Phys. 302 (3) p. 815-841 (2011)
  
  
• "Standing generalized modulating pulse solutions for a nonlinear wave equation in periodic media"
  V. Lescarret, C. Blank, M. Chirilus-Bruckner, Ch. Chong and G. Schneider. Nonlinearity 22 (8) p. 1869-1898 (2009)
  
  
• "Separation of internal and interaction dynamics for NLS-described wave packets with different carrier waves"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, Ch. Chong, G. Schneider, H. Uecker. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 347 (1) p. 304-314 (2008)
  
  
• "A remark about the justification of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in quadratic spatially periodic media"
  C. Blank, M. Chirilus-Bruckner, Ch. Chong, V. Lescarret, G. Schneider and H. Uecker. ZAMP 59 (3) p. 554-557 (2008)
  
  
• "On the interaction of NLS-described modulating pulses with different carrier waves"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, G. Schneider and H. Uecker. Math. Meth. Appl. Sci. 30 (15) p. 1965-1978 (2007)

Proceedings

• "Interaction of oscillatory packets of water waves"
  M. Chirilus-Bruckner, G. Schneider Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Appl., AIMS Proceedings (2015)
  
  

Award Nomination

• Nomination for teaching award of the Faculty of Science (p. 43)

Teaching

• Gewone Differentiaalvergelijkingen (ODEs) (Leiden University, 2025)

• Mastermath PDE (jointly with Stefanie Sonner) (national course, 2023, 2024, 2025)

• Dynamics & Chaos (jointly with Charlene Kalle) (Leiden University, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

• Numerieke Wiskunde (Numerics) (jointly with Hermen Jan Hupkes) (Leiden University, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

• Analyse 2 (Leiden University, 2018, 2019, 2020)

• Mastermath Nonlinear Waves (jointly with Hermen Jan Hupkes and Arjen Doelman) (national course, 2017, 2018)

• Analyse 3 voor Natuurkunde/Sterrenkunde (Leiden University, 2015, 2016, 2017)

• Analyse 4 (complexe functietheorie) (Leiden University, 2016, 2017)

• Mathematics Basic (Leiden University College, 2015)

• Partial Differential Equations and Waves (normal/advanced) - MATH 3078/3978 - (jointly with Ben Goldys) (Sydney University, 2014)

• Mathematics (Special Studies Program) A - MATH 1906 - (Sydney University, 2014)

• Introduction to Partial Differential Equations - MATH 2065 - (Sydney University, 2013, 2014)

• Linear Algebra - MA 242 - (Boston University, 2013)

• Methods of Applied Mathematics - APMA 0330 - (Brown University, 2011)

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Past Seminar Organization

• Dynamical Systems Seminar (Leiden University, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)

• Dynamical Systems Seminar (Leiden University, 2016)

• Joint Colloquium Sydney-UNSW (Sydney University, 2014)

• BU/Brown-PDE Seminar (BU/Brown University, 2011)

Curriculum Vitae

• Maternity/Parental leave: 2018/2019 and 2021/2022


• since November 2014
  Assistant Professor at the Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands


• July 2013 - October 2014
  Lecturer at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia


• January-June 2013
  Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, USA


• 2010-2012
  Postdoc at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, and the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, USA


• 2009-2010
  Postdoc at the Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands


• 2006-2009
  Doctoral Studies at the Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Grants and Awards

• 2025
  SAILS grant for a Postdoc position supported by Leiden University


• 2023
  KIEM grant (together with Tim de Coster) supported by Leiden University


• 2019
  Mathematics Clusters Mathematics Cluster PhD position supported by NWO (Dutch Research Foundation)


• 2015
  Tenure tracker position at Leiden University supported by NWO (Dutch Research Foundation)


• 2010
  Scholarship for postdoctoral research granted by the German Research Foundation (DFG)


• 2009
  Scholarship for postdoctoral research granted by the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS)


• 2006
  Scholarship for doctoral studies granted by the research training group DFG-GRK 1294