Biography
Dr Romina Gaburro is a mathematician working in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Limerick (UL). She obtained an MSc (Italian Laura) in Mathematics from the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK in 2004. Following her PhD, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, followed by a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at UL. Dr Gaburro is currently a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UL, where she is also the Director for Postgraduate studies, Course Director for the MSc in Mathematical Modelling, and the Research Representative for the Department in the Science and Engineering Faculty Research Committee. At UL, Dr Gaburro is a member of the Health Research Institute (HRI) and a funded investigator of CONFIRM, the SFI centre for smart manufacturing at UL. Dr Gaburro serves on the committee of the Irish Mathematical Society (IMS), where she has recently been appointed Chair of the newly formed 'Irish Committee for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Mathematics'. Dr Gaburro has also been appointed Vice-Chair of the Royal Irish Academy 'Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences Committee' for the term 2022-2026. Dr Gaburro is heavily involved in the promotion of gender balance in STEM also internationally. She is the country coordinator for Ireland in the European Women in Mathematics (EWM) organisation and the Irish ambassador for the International Mathematical Union (IMU) Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM).Research Interests
Romina Gaburro's research area is in inverse problems, partial differential equations and their applications to imaging and material properties identification. Inverse problems are employed to identify physical properties of materials that cannot be directly observed. These are the model parameters and are very often the coefficients of a partial differential equation describing the model.The material under investigation is typically probed with an electromagnetic field that interacts with the material according to the governing equation describing the model. This interaction is measured and used to determine the material properties/ inhomogeneities in the material (data inversion). Examples of inhomogeneities include an oil or geothermal reservoir in the subsurface of the Earth, a tumour in the human body or a crack/defect in a material. Inverse problems have indeed wide applications in geophysics, medical imaging, nondestructive testing, radar, acoustics, signal processing, machine learning, etc. The study of inverse problems is a very active area of modern applied mathematics and one of the most interdisciplinary field of science.
Dr Gaburro's research in inverse problems has focused on Earth exploration and medical imaging to date. She received in 2016 a visiting scientist funding award by the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INDAM) for a research collaboration with the inverse problems group at the Università degli Studi of Trieste, Italy and was one of the principal investigators of the American Institute of Mathematics (AIMS) grant SQuaREs to develop new seismic imaging algorithms in San Jose, California.
Upcoming events I am co-organising:
- INI Semester programme "Rich and nonlinear tomography: a multi-disciplinary approach", Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, U.K. https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/rnt/
- INI Workshop "Synergistic workshop on Rich and Nonlinear tomography aimed at drawing together all strands of both methods and applications with new insights," Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, U.K., June 19-23, 2023. https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/rntw04/ Deadline for applications March 20, 2023.
- International Summer School on Inverse Problems in Geophysics, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, September 18-22, 2023 (website under construction).
- Irish Mathematical Society annual meeting, University of Limerick, September 2023.
Recent invited talks/scientific visits:
- Invited speaker at the mini-symposium "Uniqueness and stability in inverse problems for partial differential equations", international conference "Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) 2023", Georg-August Universitat Gottingen, Germany, September 4-8, 2023.
- Invited speaker at the mini-symposium "Inverse problems with anisotropy", international conference "Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) 2023", Georg-August Universitat Gottingen, Germany, September 4-8, 2023.
- Invited speaker at the international conference "Inverse problems in the Desert", New York University Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., December 19-22, 2022.
- Keynote speaker at the "9th Annual SIAM Student Chapter Conference", University of Galway, Ireland, December 9, 2022.
- Invited speaker at the "SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundation of Data Science", Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland, December 5-9, 2022.
- Invited speaker at the international workshop "Solvers for frequency-domain wave problems and applications", Strathckyde University, Glasgow, U.K., June 20-25, 2022.
- Invited speaker at the mini-symposium "Microlocal concepts for imaging by waves", Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena, February 18-22, 2022, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
- Invited speaker at the international mini-symposium "Inverse problems for PDEs: from analysis to applications", Biennial Conference of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society, Diudad Real, Spain, January 17-21, 2022.
- Invited speaker at the "SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundation of Data Science", University College Dublin, Ireland, December 6-10, 2021.
- Opening lecture at the "2021 International School of Inverse Problems in Geophysics on the Shore of the Lario Lake", Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Italy, August 30 - September 3, 2021.
- Invited speaker at the "Seventh Annual Stokes Modelling Workshop for Undergraduate Students", June 21-24, 2021, NUI Galway, Ireland.
- Invited speaker at the "Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) & European Women in Mathematics (EWM) joint event", March 23, 2021.
- Plenary speaker at the "PhD Course in Earth Science, Fluid-Dynamics, and Mathematics. Interactions and Methods. Presentation Days: February 23-25, 2021", Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy.
- Visiting Professor - short term, short course on "Inverse problems for partial differential equations of geophysical interest", November 11 - December 10, 2020, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
- Invited seminar, February 4, 2020, Georg-August Universität Gottingen, Germany.
- Invited speaker at the "SIAM UKIE annual meeting", January 10, 2020, ICMS Edinburgh, UK.
- Invited speaker at the "Inverse Problems Network meeting 6", December 12-13, 2019, University of Manchester, UK.
- Invited scientist at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) workshop "Reconstruction Methods for Inverse Problems", June 23-28, 2019, Alberta, Canada. https://www.birs.ca/events/2019/5-day-workshops/19w5092
- Invited scientist at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) workshop "Women in Analysis", June 9-14, 2019, Alberta, Canada. http://www.birs.ca/events/2019/5-day-workshops/19w5082
- Invited seminar "Calderon's inverse conductivity problem and its applications to imaging" at NUI Galway, May 16, 2019, Ireland.
- Invited seminar at "Matematici al lavoro", Università degli Studi di Trieste, March 15, 2019.
- Invited speaker at the mini-symposium "Geomathematical inverse problems", SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth, September 13-15, 2018, Philadelphia, US.
- Invited speaker at the "Women in Mathematics Day Ireland 2018", University College Dublin, August 29, 2018, Ireland.
- Plenary speaker at the Indam workshop "Reconstruction methods for inverse problems", May 28 - June 1, 2018, Rome, Italy.
- Invited speaker at the workshop "Microlocal analysis in inverse problems", 9th International Conference "Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulations", May 21-25, 2018, Malta.
- Plenary speaker at the "Inverse problems network meeting 3: numerical analysis for inverse problems", April 26-27, 2018, University College London, UK.
- Invited scientist at the workshop "Recent Advances in Seismic Modeling and Inversion: From Analysis to Applications", November 6-10, 2017, as part of the Semester Program "Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Radar and Seismic Reconstruction", Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University, Providence, US.
- Invited seminar "Some inverse problems in geophysics" at the Università deli Studi di Milano, May 17, 2017, Italy.
- Invited speaker at the "Inverse Problems workshop", LMS-EPSRC Durham Symposium "Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Maxwell's Equations", July 11 - 21, 2016, Durham, UK. Link to the seminar: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/events/Meetings/LMS/104/movies/1149gabu.mp4
- Invited seminar "On the uniqueness of Calderòn inverse problem in the case of anisotropic conductivity" at the University deli Studi di Trieste, May 18, 2016, Italy.
- Plenary speaker at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) workshop "Dirichlet-to-Neumann Maps: Spectral Theory, Inverse Problems and Applications", May 29 - June 3, 2016, Oaxaca, Mexico. Link to the seminar: http://www.birs.ca/events/2016/5-day-workshops/16w5083/videos/watch/201606021012-Gaburro.html
- Invited speaker at the workshop "Geo-Mathematical Imaging 2016", April 27-28, 2016, Rice University, Houston, Texas, US.
- Invited seminar "An inverse problems in geothermal prospecting" at Rice University, January 20, 2016, Houston, Texas, US.
Conferences organisation:
- Co-organiser (with Shari Moskow) of the the mini-symposium "Anisotropic inverse problems and asymptotics" at the Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) 2019 conference, July 8-12, 2019, Grenoble, France. https://www.aip2019-grenoble.fr/en/page/minisymposia
- Co-organiser (with Eva Sincich) of the the mini-symposium "Stability and reconstruction in inverse problems and applications" at the Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) 2017 conference, May 29 - June 2, 2017, Hangzhou, Cina.
- Co-organiser (with Elena Beretta) of the mini-symposium "On the stability issue for inverse boundary value problems and applications" at the Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) 2015 conference, May 25-29, 2015, Helsinki, Finland.
- Co-organiser (with Raluca Felea) of the special session "Microlocal analysis and the inverse conductivity problem", at the 10th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, July 7-11, 2014, Madrid, Spain.
- Co-organiser (with M. Giudici, A. Comunian) of the 2021 International Summer School on Inverse Problems in Geophysics, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, August, 30 - September, 3, 2021 (virtual mode). https://iprg.lakecomoschool.org/
- Co-organiser (with B. Lionheart, S. Holman, P. Ledger, M. Betcke, S. Gazzola, T. Tarvainen, F. Watson) of the semester programme 'Rich and nonlinear tomography - a multidisciplinary approach', Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, U.K., January 4 - June 30, 2023. https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/rnt/
- Co-organiser (with S. Arridge and S. Moskow) of the workshop "Synergistic workshop on Rich and Nonlinear tomography aimed at drawing together all strands of both methods and applications with new insights," Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, U.K., June 19-23, 2023. https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/rntw04/ .
- Co-organiser (with M. Giudici, A. Comunian) of the 2023 International Summer School on Inverse Problems in Geophysics, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, September 18-22, 2023 (website under construction).
Professional Activities
Award
- 2023 - Simons Foundation Fellowship
- 2022 - UL President's Research Excellence and Impact Awards - Outstanding Research Collaboration Award
Employment
- 2013 University of Limerick - Lecturer above the bar in applied mathematics
- 2008 University of Limerick - Lecturer below the bar in Applied Mathematics
- 2004 University of Limerick - Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow
- 2003 Universita' degli Studi di Trieste - Post-Doctoral Researcher
Education
- 2004 University of Manchester (UMIST) - PhD
- 1999 Universita`degli Studi di Trieste - BSc; MSc
Language
- Italian
- English
Association
- Committee member, Irish Mathematical Society (IMS)
- member, European Mathematical Society (EMS)
- member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- member and country coordinator for Ireland, European Women in Mathematics (EWM)
- Ambassador for Ireland, IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM)
- member, Health Research Institute (HRI), University of Limerick
- Funded investigator, CONFIRM SFI centre for smart manufacturing
- Member, SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science
Outreach
Committee
- UL Science and Engineering Research Committee,
- UL Athena Swan "Career development and support (Academics)",
- UL "Ethnic Diversity Forum",
- Irish Committee for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Mathematics,
- Royal Irish Academy "Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences Committee",