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Andrés Jahir Zúñiga Munizaga

Assistant Professor

Universidad de O'Higgins

Rancagua, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Calculus of Variations, Partial Differential Equations, Nonlinear Analysis, Functional Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations

Educación

  •  Mathematics, INDIANA UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2018
  •  Mathematics, INDIANA UNIVERSITY. Chile, 2014
  •  Mathematical Civil Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2012
  •  Mathematics, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2011

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    Universidad de O'Higgins

    Engineering

    Rancagua, Chile

    2020 - A la fecha

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    MCMASTER UNIVERSITY

    Engineering

    Hamilton, Canada

    2019 - 2020

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    UNIVERSITE PARIS DAUPHINE - PARIS IX

    Paris, Francia

    2018 - 2019

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    Université Paris Dauphine - PSL

    París, Francia

    2018 - 2019

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    McMaster University

    Hamilton, Canada

    2019 - 2020

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    Universidad de O'Higgins

    Rancagua, Chile

    2020 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Date: Jan-Mar 2024. Role: Mentor/Advisor. Project: Research grant for undergraduate students, II call summer 2024}. Student: Camilo Aliste. Research line: ``Study and implementation of hybrid methods for the computational resolution of PDE applied to Data Science''. Sponsor Institution: University of O'Higgins (UOH).

Date: Jan-Mar 2024. Role: Mentor/Advisor. Project: Research grant for undergraduate students, II call summer 2024. Student: Cristian Acevedo Rivadeneira. Research line: ``Application of variational and PDE techniques in graphs for data-clustering problems and image segmentation''. Sponsor Institution: University of O'Higgins (UOH).

Date: April 2024- April 2027. Role: Supervisor/Sponsoring Investigator of Dr. Lisbeth Carrero Zerpa. Project: ANID FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellowship Appointment (call 2024) No. 3240062 "Existence and Periodicity results of solutions to local and nonlocal PDE of semilinear type".

Date: March 5th, 2024. Role: Thesis Committee Professor of Ivan Proano (advisor: Hernan Castro). Degree: Master in Mathematics, University of Talca (UTAL). Title: "Singular Sturm-Liouville equations".

Date: October 13th, 2023. Role: Thesis advisor of Xavier Carrera Carrasco (co-advisors Mircea Petrache, and Duvan Henao). Degree: Master in Mathematics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC). Title: "Numerical implementation for solving a nonlocal isoperimetric problem with Riesz term". https://www.mat.uc.cl/magister-en-matematica-graduados-y-tesis.html

Date: September 29th, 2023. Role: Thesis Committee Professor of Ethan Espinoza Bustos (advisor Cristobal Quininao). Degree: Industrial Civil Engineering, University of O'Higgins (UOH). Title: "Prediction models for labor accidents through techniques of data analysis, to improve the security and productivity in division El Teniente".


Difusión y Transferencia


*) Par Explora O'Higgins: May-Oct, 2024. Scientific advisor for ``School Research and Innovation Program'' (IIE). It promotes the development of research skills in the educational community, emphasizing questions and needs that arise from their environment and daily life. Aimed at students from 5th grade to high school senior year. Supported by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation. Government of Chile. https://www.explora.cl/ohiggins/

*) MatesUOH is an initiative promoted by academics of the University of O'Higgins that, since 2022, offers free math courses to high school students from the O'Higgins region. (https://sites.google.com/uoh.cl/matesuoh)
Date: December, 2023. Role: Instructor of the course "RSA Encryption". Course: "Mathematics problems arising from Engineering." Contents: i) Cyber-security and its relation with two mathematical problems, ii) Intro. to Modular Arithmetic and Fundamental Theorems, iii) The RSA algorithm explained, and iv) Applications and examples of RSA encryption.

Date: October, 2022. Role: Instructor of the "Part I: Functions and Differential Calculus". Course: "Introduction to Higher Education Mathematics". Contents: i) Intro. to the concept of function. Elementary functions. Composition of functions, ii) Concept of derivative and geometric interpretation, iii) Elemental derivatives, algebra of differentiation, iv) Fermat's Theorem, and analysis of monotonicity of functions, and v) Study of optimization problems.

*) Mathematics Scholar Olympiad of the Chilean Mathematical Society (SOMACHI). Aimed at middle school and high school students. (http://www.olimpiadadematematica.cl)
Date: June - October, 2023. Role: Regional coordinator of the Olympiad for the O'Higgins region.
Date: June - October, 2022. Role: Regional coordinator of the Olympiad for the O'Higgins region.
Date: June - October, 2021. Role: Regional coordinator of the Olympiad for the O'Higgins region.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   BECAS CHILE doctoral Fellowship Abroad

    CONICYT

    Chile, 2012

    Scholarship to financially support the study of a doctoral program in an institution of excellence abroad (outside Chile).

  •   FSMP-PSL Postdoctoral Fellowship

    CEREMADE. UNIVERSITE PARIS IX DAUPHINE

    Chile, 2019

    Postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of Paris (FSMP, in Frech) jointly with Paris Sciences and Lettres (PSL) conglomerate of research institutions in Mathemathics. The total amount amounts to 30.000 EUR each year in salary, plus 2.000 EUR for research trips.

  •   ICIAM Financial support program

    ACADEMIC COMMITTEE ICIAM

    España, 2020

    Financial support program aimed at young researchers established by the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in order to attend their 2020 congress in Valencia, Spain.

  •   BECAS CHILE post-doctoral Fellowship Abroad

    CONICYT

    Chile, 2020

    This is a grant to support a postdoctoral fellowship developed at an institution abroad (outside Chile) of academic excellence.


 

Article (7)

Existence of solutions to a quasilinear nonlocal PDE
ON THE STABILITY OF RADIAL SOLUTIONS TO AN ANISOTROPIC GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATION
A nonlocal isoperimetric problem with density perimeter
Continuity of minimizers to weighted least gradient problems
PRESCRIBED ENERGY CONNECTING ORBITS FOR GRADIENT SYSTEMS
On the heteroclinic connection problem for multi-well gradient systems
A two end family of solutions for the inhomogeneous Allen-Cahn equation in R-2

Proyecto (5)

Qualitative behaviour of nonlinear PDE from physics and biology
Resultados de existencia y periodicidad de soluciones para EDPs locales y no-locales de tipo semilineal
Qualitative Properties of Weighted and Anisotropic Variational Problems
BECAS CHILE postdoctorado en el extranjero
BECAS CHILE doctorado en el extranjero
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Andrés Zúñiga

Assistant Professor

Universidad de O'Higgins

Rancagua, Chile