Dr. Rufat Badal

Dr. Rufat Badal

Short vita:

• PostDoc at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg in the group of Manuel Friedrich (summer 2021-2024)
• Short PostDoc at TU München in the group of Marco Cicalese (summer 2021)
• PhD student at TU München with advisor Marco Cicalese (2015 – 2020)
• Bachelor and Master in Mathematics at TU München (2011 – 2015)

Research interests:

• Calculus of Variations
• Free-discontinuity problems
• Atomistic models and discrete-to-continuum limits
• Partial Differential Equations
• Modeling of materials in elasticity

Publications:

• R.B., M. Cicalese, L. De Luca, M. Ponsiglione: Gamma-Convergence Analysis of a Generalized XY Model: Fractional Vortices and String Defects. Commun. Math. Phys. (2017)
• R.B.: Curve-shortening of open elastic curves with repelling endpoints: A minimizing movements approach. Interfaces Free Bound. (accepted 2022)
• R.B., M. Cicalese: Renormalized energy between fractional vortices with topologically induced free discontinuities on 2-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. (in preparation)
• R.B., M. Friedrich, M. Kružík: Nonlinear and Linearized Models in Thermoviscoelasticity. (submitted)