Curriculum Vitae
Dr Carola–Bibiane Schönlieb
Address
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)
University of Cambridge
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
&
Jesus College
Cambridge CB5 8BL, UK
Tel.: business +44/1223/764251
Email: [email protected]
Homepage: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/research/cia/,
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/cbs31/
Personal Details
Date of birth: 21th of December, 1979
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
Present Citizenship: Austrian
Career
09/2016–
Alan Turing Institute Fellow, Alan Turing Institute, British Library, London, UK.
03/2016–
Co-Director of the EPSRC Centre for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Multimodal Clinical Imaging, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK.
11/2015–
Director of the Cantab Capital Institute for Mathematics of Information, Faculty of
Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK.
10/2015–
Reader in Applied and Computational Analysis, Department of Applied Mathematics
and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.
10/2011–
Head of Cambridge Image Analysis, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.
10/2011–
Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK.
09/2010–09/2015 Lecturer in Applied and Computational Analysis, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.
09/2009–09/2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Numerical and Applied Mathematics, GeorgAugust Universität Göttingen, Germany.
10/2008–09/2009 Research Associate, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge, UK.
10/2006–10/2008 Research Associate, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria.
10/2005–10/2006 Research Associate, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria.
09/2002–06/2004 Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Education
10/2007–07/2009 Ph.D. student of mathematics at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Thesis title:Modern PDE Techniques for Image Inpainting, Advisor: P.A. Markowich
June 15, 2009 Oral defense of the thesis. Examiners: Arieh Iserles (University of
Cambridge) and Stanley Osher (UCLA)
July 18, 2009 Full congregation. Admission to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
10/2005–10/2007 Ph.D. student of mathematics at the University of Vienna (Austria), Advisor: P.A.
Markowich
10/1998–01/2004 Student of mathematics at the University of Salzburg (Austria)
Oct. 25, 2000 First level in mathematics with distinction
Jan. 30, 2004 Master’s degree in mathematics with distinction
Thesis title: Invariante Momente, Advisor: P. Gerl
10/1990–06/1998 Grammar school, Neusprachliches Gymnasium in Nonntal, Salzburg (Austria)
June 17, 1998 Final exam with distinction
Honours and Awards
Whitehead prize of the London Mathematical Society, 2016.
EPSRC Science Photo Award, 1st Prize in the Category ‘People’ in 2014.
INiTS Award from INiTS (Innovation into Business), Vienna. 3rd Prize in the Category General
Technologies in 2010.
Mary Bradburn Award, awarded from the BFWG (British Federation of Women Graduates) in 2008
CET (Cambridge European Trust) Book Prize 2007 and 2008
Honorary Cambridge European Trust Scholar, awarded by the Cambridge Trust at the University of
Cambridge (United Kingdom) in 2007
Scholarship for exceptional achievements as a student, awarded by the Faculty of Science at the
University of Salzburg (Austria) in 2004
Hans–Stegbuchner–award for exceptional achievements as a student for the academic year 2001-02,
Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg (Austria)
Third-party grants
01/2017–12/2018 Global Alliance funding for Mathematical and statistical theory of imaging. PI: C.-B.
Schönlieb. Size ≈ £ 140K.
07–08/2016
LMS Undergraduate Research Bursary for Bilevel optimisation for learning the sampling pattern in Magnetic Resonance Tomography, PI: C.-B. Schönlieb. CoIs: M.
Benning, M. Ehrhardt. Size ≈ 1.4K.
03/2016–02/2020 EPSRC Centre for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Multimodal Clinical Imaging. PI: J. Aston. Co-Is: C.-B. Schönlieb (Co-Director), S. Bohndiek, E. Bullmore,
N. Burnet, T. Fokas, F. Gilbert, A. Hansen, S. Reichelt, J. Rudd, R. Samworth, G.
Treece, G. Williams. Size ≈ £ 1500K.
11/2015–10/2018 Leverhulme Trust project on Breaking the non-convexity barrier. PI: C.-B. Schönlieb.
CoI: M. Benning, L. Gladden, M. Möller. Size ≈ £ 250K.
04/2015–12/2015 Isaac Newton Trust Grant on Automated Contouring for Radiotherapy Treatment
Planning. PI: C.-B. Schönlieb. CoIs: N. Burnet, X. Cai, A. Parker. Size ≈ £ 30K.
12/2014–11/2017 EPSRC grant Nr. EP/M00483X/1 Efficient computational tools for inverse imaging
problems. PI: C.-B. Schönlieb. CoI: T. Valkonen. Size ≈ £ 500K.
09/2014–09/2016 CCI Collaborative Fund on Assessing the conservation quality of tropical forest unmanned aerial vehicles. PIs: D. Coomes, J. Lindsell, C.-B. SchŽönlieb, T. Swinfield.
Size ≈ £ 70K.
05/2014–04/2015 Wellcome Trust/ University of Cambridge Senior ISSF internship for the project Development of Image Analysis Algorithms for Monitoring Forest Health from Aircraft.
PIs: X. Cai, D. Coomes, C.-B. Schönlieb. Size ≈ £ 15K.
11/2013–10/2016 LMS award to fund 4 meetings p.a. on Current frontiers in inverse problems from
theory to applications, PIs: D. Lesnic, C.-B. Schönlieb and M. Solemani. Size ≈ £ 6K.
07–09/2012
Mathworks Academic Support for Development of MATLAB Tools for the Numerical
Analysis Tripos. PIs: S. Cowley, A. Iserles, C.-B. Schönlieb and A. Shadrin. Size
≈ £ 30K.
07/2012–07/2013 EPSRC / Isaac Newton Trust Small Grant Non-smooth geometric reconstruction for
high resolution MRI imaging of fluid transport in bed reactors. PI: C.-B. Schönlieb.
Size ≈ £ 50K.
05/2012–05/2014 EPSRC first grant Nr. EP/J009539/1 Sparse & Higher-order Image Restoration. PI:
C.-B. Schönlieb. Size ≈ £ 120K.
01/2012–12/2013 Royal Society International Exchange Award Nr. IE110314 High-order Compressed
Sensing for Medical Imaging. PIs: M. Burger & C.-B. Schönlieb. Size ≈ £ 12K.
Editorial, Review & Scientific advisory activities
Editorial activities: associate editor for IMA Numerical Analysis 2017–, section editor for SIAM Review
2017–, editor for ESAIM Proceedings 2012–; Member of International Advisory Panel for Inverse
Problems 2015–; Guest editor for Inverse Problems for Special Issue on Learning in Inverse Problems,
2015/16; Guest Editor for EJAM for Special Issue on PDE for data modelling and analysis, 2016/17.
Member of review panel of international institutes and funding agencies: Weierstrass Institute for
Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), Berlin, Germany, 2017; EPSRC review panels, 2017–.
Member of scientific committees: SIAM Conference for Imaging Sciences 2018, Mathematics and Image
Analysis Conference 2016 & 2018, Applied Inverse Problems Conference 2015.
Member of programme committees: International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2015, Scale Space and Variational Methods Conference 2013,
2015 & 2017.
Reviewer for international funding bodies since 2010: Comisión Nacional de Investigación Cientı́fica y
Tecnológica, CONICYT (Chile), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, EPSRC (UK),
Israel Ministry of Science, Technology & Space (Israel), Royal Society (UK), Royal Academy of
Engineering (UK), Swedish Research Council (SE).
Referee for journals since 2008: DCDS – Series B, J. FOCM, IEEE Trans. Image Proc., IMA J. App.
Math., Inv. Prob., Inv. Prob. Sci. & Eng., Comp. & App. Math., Comp. Sci. & Techn., Math.
Imaging & Vision, Sci. Comp., London Math. Soc., Pattern Anal. & App., SIIMS, SINUM, Signal,
Image & Video Proc. .
Organisation of Meetings
Conferences & Workshops
CIRM winter school on The Mathematics of Imaging, 7-11 January 2019, CIRM, Marseille, France.
Co-organisers: J.-F. Aujol, J. Delon, A. Desolneux, J. Fadili, B. Galerne, G. Peyré.
Isaac Newton Institute Programme on Variational methods and effective algorithms for imaging and
vision, August - December 2017, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK. Co-organisers: K. Chen, A.
Fitzgibbon, M. Hintermüller, X.-C. Tai.
IMA Conference on Inverse Problems, 19-21 September 2017, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Co-organisers: P. Ledger, B. Lionheart, C. Sebu.
ATI-LMS Workshop on Inverse Problems and Data Science, 8-10 May, 2017, Edinburgh, UK.
Co-organisers: M. Betcke, N. Bochkina, S. Holman.
BIRS Workshop on Optimal Transport meets Probability, Statistics and Machine Learning, 30 April - 5
May 5, 2017, Oaxaca, Mexico. Co-organiser: G. Carlier, M. Cuturi, B. Pass.
Cambridge – Heriot Watt interdisciplinary data science workshop on Mathematical imaging with
partially unknown models, 20-21 February 2017, Jesus College in Cambridge, UK. Co-organisers: M.
Benning, M. Pereyra.
Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification In The Mathematics Of Healthcare, Royal Statistical Society,
London, UK, 19 January 2017.
CCIMI New Directions in the Mathematics of Information – 10 November 2016, Centre for
Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.
Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information – Launch Event, 9 May 2016, Isaac
Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Workshop on High-dimensional Statistics, Inverse Problems and Convex Analysis, Royal Statistical
Society, London, UK, 22 March 2016. Co-organiser: M. Pereyra.
EPSRC Centre for Mathematical Imaging in Healthcare – Launch Event, 8 March 2016, Isaac Newton
Institute, Cambridge, UK. Co-organiser: J. Aston, TGM.
POEMS workshop on Big Data, Multimodality & Dynamic Models in Biomedical Imaging, 9th March
2016, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK. Co-organisers: J. Aston, C. Dyer-Smith, S. Reichelt, S.
Panayotova, TGM.
Alan Turing Institute Workshop on Data Rich Phenomena - Modelling, Analysing and Simulations
using Partial Differential Equations , 14-16 December 2015, Isaac Newton Institute Cambridge, UK.
Co-organisers: J. A. Carrillo, C. Elliott, P. Markowich, Y. van Gennip.
Alan Turing Institute Workshop on Theoretical and computational approaches to large scale inverse
problems, 2-4 December 2015, ICMS, Edinburgh, UK. Co-organisers: S. Arridge, J. Aston, P. Richtarik,
A. Stuart, J. Tanner.
TGM Workshop on Challenges in Dynamic Imaging Data, Isaac Newton Institute, 9-11 June 2015.
ICMS-Workshop on Gradient flows: from theory to application, ICMS Edinburgh (UK), 21-24 April
2015.
BMC/BAMC - LMS workshop on Inverse Problems, Cambridge (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2015.
LMS meetings on Current frontiers in inverse problems: from theory to applications. Co-organisers: D.
Lesnic, M. Soleimani.
–MCMC Methods, University of Bath, 31 October 2016
–Next Generation Mathematical Approaches in Inverse Imaging, BAMC 2016, University of Oxford, 8
April 2016
–BIG inverse problems, University of Nottingham, 29 February 2016
–Large-scale and nonlinear inverse problems, University of Edinburgh, 21 September 2015
–Inverse problems in wave propagation, University of Cardiff, 12 June 2015
–Learning in inverse problems, UCL, 9. January 2015
– Tomographic reconstructions from boundary data, University of Leeds, 22. September 2014.
– Hybrid and multi-modal imaging, University of Manchester, 4. July 2014.
– Data assimilation and numerical weather prediction, University of Bath, 7.May 2014.
– Sparse Regularisation for Inverse Problems, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 7. February 2014.
Introductory meeting to the IMAGES network – platform for Cambridge (UK) researchers who develop
and use imaging and analysis tools, University of Cambridge (UK), February 24, 2014.
Workshops IMAGiNG & MATHEMATiCS, a workshop and open forum for scientists to discuss imaging
problems and solutions, CRUK CI lecture theatre, May 15 , 2013 & December 3, 2013. Co-organiser: S.
Reichelt; University of Münster, January 14, 2014. Co-organisers: M. Burger & S. Reichelt.
Meeting Mathematics and Information in Cambridge, half-day meeting in the Centre for Mathematical
Sciences, February 23, 2012. Co-organisers: A. Hansen, A. Iserles.
Workshop on Statistics, Learning and Variational Methods in Imaging. Cambridge (UK), September
20-21, 2012. Co-organisers: J. Lellmann.
Minisymposia
Minisymposium at SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences 2016, on Parameter Selection in Image
Reconstruction. 23-26 May 2016, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Co-organiser: A. Langer.
Minisymposium at IPMS 2016, on Inverse Problems in Computer Vision, 23 - 28 May 2016, Ölüdeniz,
Fethiye, Turkey.
Minisymposium at SciCADE 2015, on Variational and PDE Methods in Image Processing, Potsdam
(Germany), September 14-18, 2015. Co-organiser: J. Lellmann.
Minisymposium at ICIAM 2015, on Computational learning and model optimization, Beijing (China),
August 10-14, 2015. Co-organisers: M. Chung, J.-C. De Los Reyes.
Minisymposium at 27th IFIP TC7 Conference 2015 on Non-convex optimisation in the imaging
sciences, Sophia Antipolis (France), June 29 - July 3, 2015. Co-organisers: M. Benning, T. Valkonen.
Minisymposium at Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) Conference 2015, on Optimising inversion models,
Helsinki (Finland), May 25-29, 2015. Co-organisers: E. Haber, J.-C. De Los Reyes.
Minisymposia at SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences 2014, on Challenges in Inverse Problems for
Imaging, Co-organiser: M. Nikolova; and on Keep the Edge? From Theory to Practice, Co-organiser: M.
Betcke. Hong Kong, May 12-14, 2014.
Minisymposium on Noise estimation, model selection & bilevel optimisation, IFIP TC 7 Conference on
System Modelling and Optimization. Klagenfurt (Austria), September 9–13, 2013. Co-organiser: J.-C.
De Los Reyes.
Minisymposium on Higher-Order Models for Image Restoration Part I & II, SIAM Conference on
Imaging Science. Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), May 20-22, 2012. Co-organiser: K. Bredies.
Minisymposium on Geometric Models and Applications in Image and Surface Processing, ICNAAM
2010, Rhodes (Greece), September 19-25, 2010. Co-organiser: M. Droske.
Minisymposium on Operator Splitting Methods for Large-scale Problems in Imaging - Part I of II, SIAM
Conference on Imaging Science. Chicago (Illinois), April 12-14, 2010. Co-organiser: M. Burger.
Academic examination
PhD theses
Matt Dunlop (University of Warwick, UK, 06/2016)
Milana Gataric (University of Cambridge, UK, 11/2015)
Solene Ozeré (University of Rouen, France, 11/2015)
Iulia Cimpan (University of Kent, UK, 10/2015)
Arthur Leclaire (Université Paris Descartes, France, 06/2015)
Matthias Ehrhardt (UCL, UK, 06/2015)
Clarice Poon (University of Cambridge, UK, 05/2015)
Maria Hänel (University of Bayreuth, 12/2014)
Stefano Pedemonte (UCL, UK, 09/2013)
Jahn Müller (University of Münster, Germany, 07/2013)
Kati Niinimäki (University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, 06/2013)
Dan Brinkman (University of Cambridge, UK, 02/2013)
Dionyssios Mantzavinos (University of Cambridge, UK, 06/2012)
Michalis Dimakos (University of Cambridge, UK, 03/2012)
Master theses
Nicholas Piano (Cambridge, UK, 11/2015)
Isabelle Bush (Cambridge, UK, 09/2015)
Academic Supervision
Postdoctoral Fellows
Matthias Ehrhardt
01/2016–
Large-scale inverse problems.
Martin Benning
09/2012–
Singular regularisation in inverse problems. Currently Leverhulme
Trust Early Career Fellow.
Lukas Lang
01/2017–
Mathematical image analysis, variational methods and inverse
problems.
Xiaohao Cai
05/2014–12/2015
Image segmentation. Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL, UK.
Tuomo Valkonen
11/2012–01/2016
Dynamic & higher-order image reconstruction. Currently: Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK.
Jan Lellmann
10/2011–09/2015
Variational methods for image labelling. Currently: W2 Professor,
University of Lübeck, Germany
Ph.D. students
Ferdia Sherry
10/2016 –
Rob Tovey
10/2016–
Bilevel learning (joint with M. Ehrhardt, DAMTP, Cambridge).
Mathematics of electron tomography (joint with M. Benning,
DAMTP, Cambridge).
Jonathan Williams
10/2016–
Analysis of airborne imaging data (joint with D. Coomes, Plant
Sciences Cambridge).
Lisa-Maria Kreusser
10/2015–
Mean-field equations, biological networks (joint with P. A.
Markowich, DAMTP, Cambridge).
Veronica Corona
10/2015 –
Crossing modalities in cancer imaging: improving diagnostics by
linking light microscopy with PET/MRI using novel mathematical
methods (joint with J. Aston & K. Brindle & S. Reichelt, CRUK
CI).
Joana Grah
10/2014–
Mathematical image analysis for cancer research applications
(joint with S. Reichelt, CRUK CI).
Simone Parisotto
10/2014–
Anisotropy in mathematical imaging (joint with S. Masnou,
Lyon).
Rob Hocking
09/2013–
Image and video inpainting.
Juheon Lee
09/2012– 01/2015
Image registration and segmentation for forest ecology (joint with
D. Coomes, Plant Sciences Cambridge). Currently: Postdoctoral
fellow, Stanford University, CA.
Luca Calatroni
09/2012–11/2015
Non-smooth and non-local variational methods. Currently: Postdoctoral fellow, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
Evangelos Papoutsellis
09/2011–10/2015
First-order gradient regularisation methods for image restoration.
Reconstruction of tomographic images with thin structures and
denoising piecewise affine images. Currently: Postdoctoral fellow,
University of Orleans, France.
Kostas Papafitsoros
09/2010–10/2014
Novel higher order regularisation methods for image reconstruction. Currently: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
Master students
Brett Larsen (09/2015–): Graph clustering. Joint with M. Benning.
Supervised Part III essays
Timo Sprekelers (06/2017): Bilevel learning
Tabea Tscherpel (06/2014, now PhD student in Oxford): Transport inpainting
Ben Champion (06/2013, now PhD student at UCL): Optical flow for video processing
Armin Krupp (06/2013, now PhD student in Oxford): Optical flow for video processing.
Gar Goei Loke (06/2012): Nonlinear diffusion equations for image enhancement
Evangelos Papoutsellis (now Postdoctoral fellow in Orleans): Oscillating Patterns in Images
Supervised graduate projects within the Cambridge Centre for Analysis CDT
Lisa Kreusser (06/2016): Analysis, Modelling and Simulation of Fingerprint Patterns
Rob Hocking (01/2013): Variational Patch Based Inpainting
Kornel Maczynski (06/2012): Video processing - a non-smooth optical flow approach
Milana Gataric (01/2012): Coupling of continuum and particle methods
Luca Calatroni (01/2012): Splitting methods for fourth-order image inpainting
Kostas Papafitsoros (06/2011): Higher Order Regularisation For Total Variation Inpainting
Kolyan Ray (01/2011): Understand sparsity - the relation between `0 and `1 minimization
Visiting students
Sebastian Neumayer, visiting master student from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany,
09/2016–03/2017. Generalised optimal transport for indirect image matching (joint with O. Öktem,
KTH).
Georg Maierhofer, undergraduate intern student funded by LMS bursary, 07–09/2016. Bilevel
optimisation for learning the optimal sampling pattern in MRI.
Marie Foged Schmidt, visiting PhD student from Technical University of Denmark, 01–06/2016.
Generalised singular value decomposition (joint with M. Benning).
Yoeri Boink, visiting master student from University of Twente, Netherlands, 09–12/2015. Image
analysis for vessel networks (joint with C. Brune (University of Twente, Netherlands), P. Meyer).
Verner Vladic, Bridgewater undergraduate intern student, University of Cambridge, UK, 07–09/2015.
Regularisation for dynamic imaging
Marie Autume, visiting intern Bachelor and master student from ENS Cachan, France, 2012 & 2015.
Art restoration. Joint supervision with Spike Bucklow from the Hamilton-Kerr Institute and Stella
Panayotova from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Veronica Corona, visiting master student from University of Delft, Netherlands, 09/2014–03/2015.
Multi-spectral characterisation of thalamic nuclei with ultra-high field MRI (joint with P. Nestor
(German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg)).
Rien Lagerwerf, visiting master student from University of Twente, Netherlands, 09/2014–02/2015.
TGV-type inpainting for limited-angle tomography (joint with C. Brune (University of Twente,
Netherlands)).
Goezde Sarikaya, visiting undergraduate intern student, Fatih University Istanbul, Turkey,
06/2014–09/2014. Reconstruction of MRI data.
Maria Hänel, visiting PhD student from University of Bayreuth, Germany, 04/2014–10/2014. Optimal
placement of cameras.
Rob Tovey, visiting intern undergraduate student, University of Warwick, UK, 07/2014–08/2014.
Higher-order convex-concave regularization.
Stefi Anita, Bridgewater undergraduate intern student, University of Cambridge, UK, 07/2014.
Segmentation for radiotherapy treatment planning. Joint project with VoxTox.
Ziad Kobeissi, visiting undergraduate intern student, University of Lyon, France, 07/2014–08/2014.
Generating artificial fingerprints. Joint project with Bertram Düring (University of Sussex), Carsten
Gottschlich (University of Göttingen), Stephan Huckemann (University of Göttingen).
Hendrik Dirks, visiting PhD student from University of Münster, Germany, 09/2014–12/2014.
David-Crighton Fellow. Imaging of intracellular flows. Joint supervision with Ray Goldstein (DAMTP).
Joana Grah, visiting master student from University of Münster, Germany, 09/2013–03/2014. Tracking
of mitotic cells. Joint supervision with Stefanie Reichelt (CRUK CI).
Other scientific activities
11/2016–
Ambassador of the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM).
09/2016–
Convenor of the European Women in Mathematics Association.
09/2015–
Member of Departmental Strategy Board, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK.
09/2015–
Organiser of Applied and Computational Analysis Seminar, University of Cambridge,
UK.
01/2014–
Initiator and co-leader of IMAGES, a Cambridge network for developers and users of
imaging and analysis tools. See http://www.images.group.cam.ac.uk.
01/2014–
Imaging Theme Champion and member of Steering Committee of the Cambridge Big
Data Initiative. See http://www.bigdata.cam.ac.uk.
09/2013–
Women officer, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.
2013–
Participation in hiring committees for faculty positions: DPMMS, University of Cambridge, UK, 2014 & 2015/16; Department for Computer Science, UCL, UK, 2013;
DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK, 2013 & 2015/16 & 2016/17.
02/2016–10/2016 Member of Science Committee for the Alan Turing Institute, British Library, London,
UK.
05/2015–01/2016 Member of interim programme committee for the Alan Turing Institute, British Library, London, UK.
09/2014–08/2016 Cambridge coordinator for ERASMUS exchange between DAMTP, University of Cambridge and the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Duisburg-Essen.
09/2010–08/2011 Co-leader of the mentoring project for female mathematicians m2 - Mentoring für
Masterstudentinnen der Mathematik, University of Göttingen, Germany. See http:
//www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/cbs31/m2_mentoring
10/2005–10/2007 Leader of the first mentoring project for female mathematicians (m2 - Mentoring für
Mathematikerinnen), University of Salzburg, Austria. See http://www.diepresse.
at/home/diverse/archiv/70125/index.do
10/2004–02/2005 Member of council, Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg, Austria.
09/2004–06/2005 Participant of the karriere links project, University of Salzburg and University of Linz,
Austria.
10/2002–03/2005 Organisation of the FIT-project (FIT - Frauen in die Technik) for the Department of
Mathematics, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Publications
Books
[67] C.-B. Schönlieb, Partial Differential Equation Methods for Image Inpainting, Cambridge
Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics (No. 29), Cambridge University Press
2015.
Papers submitted
[66] M. Benning, M. Betcke, M. J. Ehrhardt, C.-B. Schönlieb, Gradient descent in a generalised
Bregman distance framework, arXiv:1612.02506, 2016.
[65] M. Foged Schmidt, M. Benning, C.-B. Schönlieb, Inverse Scale Space Decomposition,
arXiv:1612.09203, 2016.
[64] R. Hocking, R. MacKenzie, C.-B. Schönlieb, Guidefill: GPU Accelerated, Artist Guided Geometric
Inpainting for 3D Conversion, arXiv:1611.05319, 2016.
[63] L. Calatroni, J. C. De Los Reyes, C.-B. Schönlieb, Infimal convolution of data discrepancies for
mixed noise removal, submitted, arXiv:1611.00690, 2016.?
[62] M. Burger, L. M. Kreusser, P. Markowich, C.-B. Schönlieb, Pattern formation of a nonlocal,
anisotropic interaction model, submitted, arXiv:1610.08108, 2016
[61] M. Burger, H. Dirks and C.-B. Schönlieb, A Variational Model for Joint Motion Estimation and
Image Reconstruction, submitted, arXiv:1607.03255, 2016.
[60] M. Benning, C.-B. Schönlieb, T.Valkonen, and V. Vlacic, Explorations on anisotropic
regularisation of dynamic inverse problems by bilevel optimisation, submitted, 2016.
arXiv:1602.01278
Papers in journals
[59] J. Grah, J. Harrington, S. Boon Koh, J. Pike, A. Schreiner, M. Burger, C.-B. Schönlieb, S.
Reichelt, Mathematical Imaging Methods for Mitosis Analysis in Live-Cell Phase Contrast
Microscopy, Methods, available online February 2017. Preprint arXiv:1609.04649.
[58] V.C. Cao, J.C. De los Reyes, C.-B. Schönlieb, Learning optimal spatially–dependent regularization
parameters in total variation image restoration, to appear in Inverse Problems. Preprint
arXiv:1603.09155.
[57] L. Calatroni, Y. van Gennip, H. Rowland, C.-B. Schönlieb, A. Flenner, Graph clustering,
variational image segmentation methods and Hough transform scale detection for object
measurement in images, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 1-23, 2016.
[56] J. C. De Los Reyes, C.-B. Schönlieb, and T. Valkonen, Bilevel parameter learning for higher-order
total variation regularisation models, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 57.1 (2017),
1-25.
[55] J. C. De Los Reyes, C.-B. Schönlieb, and T. Valkonen, The structure of optimal parameters for
image restoration problems, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 434 (2016),
464-500.
[54] J. Lee, X. Cai, J. Lellmann, M. Dalponte, Y. Malhi, N. Butt, M. Morecroft , C.-B. Schönlieb, and
D. A. Coomes, Individual tree species classification from airborne multi-sensor imagery using
robust PCA, to appear in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and
Remote Sensing 2016.
[53] L. Calatroni, C. Cao, J. C. De Los Reyes, C.-B. Schönlieb, and T. Valkonen, Bilevel approaches for
learning of variational imaging models, to appear in RICAM special issue, 2016. arXiv:1505.02120.
[52] M. Burger, K. Papafitsoros, E. Papoutsellis, and C.-B. Schönlieb, Infimal convolution
regularisation functionals of BV and Lp spaces. Part I: The finite p case, Journal of Mathematical
Imaging and Vision, 55(3), 343-369, 2016. arXiv:1504.01956
[51] J. C. De Los Reyes, C.-B. Schönlieb, and T. Valkonen, The structure of optimal parameters for
image restoration problems, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 434 (2016),
464–500.
[50] J. Lellmann, K. Papafitsoros, C.-B. Schönlieb, and D. Spector, Analysis and Application of a
Non-Local Hessian, SIAM J. Imaging Sci., 8(4), pp. 2161–2202., 2015.
[49] M. Moeller, M. Benning, C.-B. Schönlieb, D. Cremers, Variational Depth from Focus
Reconstruction, Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on, 24(12), 5369-5378. 2015. Preprint on
arXiv:1408.0173.
[48] J. Lee, X. Cai, C.-B. Schönlieb, and D. Coomes, Non-parametric Image Registration of Airborne
LiDAR, Hyperspectral and Photographic Imagery of Wooded Landscapes, Geoscience and Remote
Sensing, IEEE Transactions on, 53(11), 6073-6084, 2015.
[47] J. Lellmann, D. Lorenz, C.-B. Schönlieb, and T. Valkonen, Imaging with Kantorovich-Rubinstein
discrepancy, SIAM J. Imaging Sci., 7(4), 2833–2859, 2014.
[46] J. Maas, M. Rumpf, C.-B. Schönlieb, and S. Simon, A generalized model for optimal transport of
images including dissipation and density modulation, to appear in M2AN, 24 p.
[45] M. Burger, J. Müller, E. Papoutsellis, and C.-B. Schönlieb, Total Variation Regularisation in
Measurement and Image space for PET reconstruction, Inverse Problems 30 (10), 105003, 2014.
[44] M. Benning, L. Gladden, D. Holland, C.-B. Schönlieb, T. Valkonen, Phase reconstruction from
velocity-encoded MRI measurements – a survey of sparsity-promoting variational approaches,
Journal of Magnetic Resonance 238 (2014), pp. 26–43.
[43] L. Calatroni, B. Düring, and C.-B. Schönlieb, ADI splitting schemes for a fourth-order nonlinear
partial differential equation from image processing, DCDS Series A, Special Issue for Arieh Iserles
65th birthday, 34(3), March 2014, pp. 931 – 957.
[42] J. C. De Los Reyes, and C.-B. Schönlieb, Image denoising: Learning noise distribution via
PDE-constrained optimisation, Inverse Problems and Imaging 7(4), pp. 1183–1214, November
2013.
[41] K. Papafitsoros, and C.-B. Schönlieb, A combined first and second order variational approach for
image reconstruction, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 48(2), pp. 308–338, 2014.
[40] C.-B. Schönlieb, and F. Schubert, Random Simulations for Generative Art Construction - Some
Examples, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 29-39.
[39] K. Papafitsoros, C.-B. Schönlieb, and B. Segul, Combined first and second order total variation
inpainting using split Bregman, in Image Processing On Line, vol. 2013, pp. 112-136.
[38] A. Langer, S. Osher, and C.-B. Schönlieb, Bregmanized Domain Decomposition for Image
Restoration, J. Scientific Computing, May 2012, 28 pp., DOI 10.1007/s10915-012-9603-x.
[37] M. Fornasier, Y. Kim, A. Langer, and C.-B. Schönlieb, Wavelet Decomposition Method for
L2 /TV-Image Deblurring, SIAM J. Imaging Sciences, Vol 5, No 3, pp. 857–885, 2012.
[36] C. Gottschlich, C.-B. Schönlieb, Anisotropic Diffusion Filtering with A-priori Estimated
Orientation Field for Enhancing Low-quality Fingerprint Images, IET Biometrics, 1 (2), pp.
105–113, June 2012.
[35] M. Burger, M. Franek, and C.-B. Schönlieb, Density estimation and smoothing based on
regularised optimal transport, Appl. Math. Res. Express (AMRX) 2012 (2), 209-253, 2012.
[34] C.-B. Schönlieb, A. Bertozzi, Unconditionally stable schemes for higher order inpainting, Comm.
Math. Sciences, 9 (2), pp. 413–457, 2011.
[33] M. Fornasier, A. Langer, C.-B. Schönlieb, A convergent overlapping domain decomposition method
for total variation minimization, Numerische Mathematik, Vol. 116, Nr. 4, pp. 645–685, 2010.
[32] M. Burger, L. He, C.-B. Schönlieb, Cahn-Hilliard inpainting and a generalization for grayvalue
images, SIAM J. Imaging Sci., 2 (4), pp. 1129–1167, 2009.
[31] M. Fornasier, C.-B. Schönlieb, Subspace correction methods for total variation and l1 minimization, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 47 (5), pp. 3397–3428, 2009.
[30] J. D. Rossi, C.-B. Schönlieb, Nonlocal higher order evolution equations, Applicable Analysis. Vol.
89(6), pp. 949–960, 2010.
[29] J. Fernandez Bonder, J. D. Rossi, C.-B. Schönlieb, The Best Constant and Extremals of the
Sobolev Embeddings in Domains With Holes: the L∞ Case, Illinois Journal of Mathematics, 52
(4), pp. 1111–1121, 2008.
[28] M.Burger, S.-Y.Chu, P.Markowich, C.-B. Schönlieb, The Willmore Functional and Instabilities in
the Cahn-Hilliard equation, Comm. Math. Sciences, 6 (2), pp. 309–329, 2008.
[27] J. Fernández Bonder, J. D. Rossi, C.-B. Schönlieb, An Optimization Problem Related to the Best
Sobolev Trace Constant in Thin Domains, Comm. Contemp. Math. (CCM), 10 (5) (Oct 2008),
pp. 633–650.
[26] P.Gerl, C.-B. Schönlieb and K.C.Wang, The Use of Fractal Dimension in Arts Analysis, HarFA Harmonic and Fractal Image Analysis Journal 2004, pp. 70–73.
Papers in refereed conference proceedings
[25] M. Benning, F. Knoll, C.B. Schönlieb and T. Valkonen, Preconditioned ADMM with nonlinear
operator constraint, to appear in IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
TC7-2015 Proceedings, Springer, 10 p., 2016. Preprint arXiv:1511.00425.
[24] M. Burger, K. Papafitsoros, E. Papoutsellis and C.B. Schönlieb, Infimal convolution regularisation
functionals of BV and Lp spaces. Part II: the infinite p case, to appear in IFIP TC7-2015
Proceedings, Springer, 10 p., 2016.
[23] L. Calatroni, J. C. De Los Reyes, and C.-B. Schönlieb, Dynamic sampling schemes for optimal
noise learning under multiple nonsmooth constraints, IFIP TC7-2013 Proceedings, Springer, 10 p.,
2014.
[22] M. Benning, L. Calatroni, B. Düring, C.-B. Schönlieb, A primal-dual approach for a total
variation Wasserstein flow, GSI 2013 LNCS proceedings, Springer, 8 p.
[21] J. Lellmann, J.-M. Morel, C.-B. Schönlieb, Anisotropic third-order regularization for sparse digital
elevation models, Scale Space Var. Meth. Comp. Vis. (SSVM), 2013, pp. 12.
[20] B. Düring, and C.-B. Schönlieb, A high-contrast fourth-order PDE from imaging: numerical
solution by ADI splitting, Proceedings of the Conference on Multi-scale and high-contract PDE:
from modelling, to mathematical analysis, to inversion, AMS–Contemporary Mathematics
(CONM) book series, 11 p, 2012.
[19] P.-E. Barbano, A. Fokas, C.-B. Schönlieb, Alternating regularisation in measurement- and image
space for PET reconstruction, Proc. Int. Conf. SampTA11, Singapore, 2011.
[18] U. Bauer, C.-B. Schönlieb, M. Wardetzky, Total variation meets topological persistence: A first
encounter, in AIP Conference Proceedings, ICNAAM, Numerical Analysis and Applied
Mathematics, International Conference 2010, pp. 1022-1025.
[17] M. Kostner, C.-B. Schönlieb, F. Schubert, Chaos, Noise, Randomness and Coincidence as
Constitutional for Generative Art, Conference Proceedings of Bridges 2010, Pecs, 2010.
[16] W. Baatz, M. Fornasier, P. Markowich, C.-B. Schönlieb, Binary Based Fresco Restoration,
Conference Proceedings of Bridges 2009, BANFF 2009, pp. 337-338.
[15] C.-B. Schönlieb, A. Bertozzi, M. Burger, L. He, Image Inpainting Using a Fourth-Order Total
Variation Flow, Proc. Int. Conf. SampTA09, Marseilles, 2009.
[14] A. Langer, M. Fornasier, C.-B. Schönlieb, Domain decomposition methods for compressed sensing,
Proc. Int. Conf. SampTA09, Marseilles, 2009.
[13] C.-B. Schönlieb, Total variation minimization with an H −1 constraint, CRM Series 9,
Singularities in Nonlinear Evolution Phenomena and Applications proceedings, Scuola Normale
Superiore Pisa 2009, pp. 201-232.
[12] W. Baatz, M. Fornasier, P. Markowich, C.-B. Schönlieb, Inpainting of Ancient Austrian Frescoes,
Conference proceedings of Bridges 2008, Leeuwarden 2008, pp.150-156.
[11] C.-B. Schönlieb and K.C.Wang, Feature Selection and Clustering in Arts Analysis, Conference
Proceedings Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2003), Coleraine
2003, pp. 25-31.
[10] P.Gerl, R.Huber, C.-B. Schönlieb and K.C.Wang, Automatisierte Analyse und Klassifikation von
Zeichnungen und Gemälden, Konferenzband Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts (EVA 2003),
Berlin 2003, pp 123-126.
[9] C.-B. Schönlieb and K.C.Wang, Line Segmentation and Analysis With Special Interest to the Duct
of a Line, Conference Proceedings Fourth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and
Image Processing (ICVGIP 2004), Kolkata 2004, pp. 550-555.
Miscellaneous
[8] C.-B. Schönlieb, Mathematically formalising image restoration, Eureka 63, March 2014.
[7] A. Iserles, C.-B. Schönlieb, Mathematics of Information – The Second Industrial Revolution,
Mathematics Today,Mathematics Today, IMA@50 special issue, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 53-58,
February 2013.
[6] C.-B. Schönlieb, Applying Modern PDE Techniques to Digital Image Restoration, Matlab Digest
Newsletters 2012. See http://www.mathworks.co.uk/company/newsletters/articles/
applying-modern-pde-techniques-to-digital-image-restoration.html.
[5] C.-B. Schönlieb, Restoring profanity, PLUS magazine, Issue 50, March 1, 2009. See
http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue50/features/schoenlieb/index.
[4] C.-B. Schönlieb, Modern PDE Techniques for Image Inpainting, PhD Thesis, University of
Cambridge, 265 p, June 2009.
[3] C.-B. Schönlieb, How Differential Equations can Make a Bungee Jumper Jump Without a Rope, 7
p., 2008.
[2] C.-B. Schönlieb, Emmy Noethers Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen, Mathematische Berichte,
Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Salzburg. Bericht 30, 2005.
[1] C.-B. Schönlieb, Invariante Momente, Master’s thesis, 2004.
Teaching Experience
Image reconstruction and analysis, one lecture delivered in the Part III Medical Physics course,
University of Cambridge, UK, Lent term 2017
Variational methods for inverse imaging problems in biomedicine and remote sensing, lectures &
practicals, European Summer School in Modelling, Analysis and Simulation – Crime and Image
Processing, University of Oxford, UK, 4-8 July 2016.
Biological Imaging and Analysis, lectures for master course in Computational Biology, University of
Cambridge, UK, Lent term 2015/16 & 2016/17.
From Computation to Information, graduate lecture & supervision of projects within the CCA-core
course on Computational Analysis, lecture, University of Cambridge, UK, Lent term 2015/16 & 2016/17.
Mathematical Imaging: Solutions and Challenges, summer course at the University of Verona (Italy),
6-15 October 2014.
Image Processing - Variational and PDE Methods, Part III lecture (master level), DAMTP, University
of Cambridge, UK, Lent term 2012/13 & 2013/14.
Non-smooth regularisation in inverse problems, lectures delivered within a summer school on
Computational methods for inverse problems in imaging, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio campus,
June 11-15, 2012.
Imaging & PDEs, graduate lecture & supervision of projects within the CCA-core course on
Computational Analysis, lecture, DAMTP, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), Lent term
2010/11, 2011/12 & 2013/13.
Numerical Analysis, Part II, undergraduate lecture, DAMTP, University of Cambridge (United
Kingdom), Lent term 2010/11, Michaelmas term 2011/12 & 2012/13 & 2013/14 & 2015/16.
Modern PDE Techniques for Image Inpainting, minicourse for the PhD training program
Graduiertenkolleg 1023: Identification in Mathematical Models, Institute of Numerical and Applied
Mathematics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen (Germany), Winter term 2009/10
Topics in Analysis, supervision, Department of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics
(DPMMS), University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), Lent term 2008
Discrete Mathematics, proseminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg (Austria),
Winter term 2005
History of Mathematics (Life and Work of Famous Female Mathematicians), lecture & proseminar,
Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg (Austria), Winter term 2004
Geometry, proseminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg (Austria), Summer term
2004 and 2005
Statistics, proseminar, Department of Scientific Computing, University of Salzburg (Austria), Summer
term 2004 and 2005
Linear Algebra, tutorial, Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg (Austria), Summer term
2001 and 2002
Outreach activities
London Mathematical Society / Gresham College lecture Mathematics can make you fly?, 23 May 2017,
Gresham College, London, UK.
Organisation of exhibition opening of ‘Women of mathematics: a journey throughout Europe’, a portrait
gallery of women mathematicians in Europe, Cambridge, UK, 25 April 2017. http://womeninmath.net
Exhibition of two interactive stands on Fuse your face with a famous person and 3D rendering from 2D
silhouettes at Centre for Mathematical Sciences Open Day at the Science Festival, Cambridge, UK, 25
March 2017.
Plus article on Face fusion, March 2017. https://plus.maths.org/content/face-fusion
Talk on Moving Pictures: Mathematical Reconstruction of Paintings, Festival of Ideas, Fitzwilliam
Museum Cambridge, 26 October 2016. Talk given alongside Spike Bucklow and Stella Panayotova.
Talks on Seeing More in Images: A Mathematical Perspective, Maths Open Days 2016, Cambridge, UK.
Talk on Seeing More in Images: A Mathematical Perspective, University of Cambridge Mathematics
and Big Data Showcase, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 20 April 2016.
http://www.turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk/mbd_apr2016-programme.shtml.
Talk on Seeing More in Images: A Mathematical Perspective, Step Up! Mathematical Problem-Solving
Day for Y12 Girls, 18 April 2016, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Talk recorded at
https://youtu.be/9SPN9Ouxx7g.
Mathematical moments: Interview with the Plus Magazine, April 2016.
https://plus.maths.org/content/mathematical-moments-carola-schonlieb. Also featured on
http://wild.maths.org/five-minutes-withcarola-bibiane-schönlieb
Plus article on What the eye can’t see, April 2016.
https://plus.maths.org/content/what-eye-cant-see
100 seconds science video on What is a Fourier transform, Physicsworld, October 2014. http:
//physicsworld.com/cws/article/multimedia/2014/oct/15/what-is-a-fourier-transform.
Plus article on Restoring profanity, March 2009. See
http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue50/features/schoenlieb/index.
Invited Research Stays ≥ 2 weeks
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Los Angeles (California).
4–17 May 2015.
Escuela Politecnica National de Quito, Quito (Ecuador), 8–22 February 2015.
University of Vienna, Vienna, (Austria). 15 October – 19 December 2014.
La Trobe University, Melbourne (AU) & Massey University, Palmerston North (NZ). 18 March – 2
April 2013.
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Los Angeles (California),
1-14 August 2010.
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Los Angeles (California), 30 March - 9 May 2008.
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Los Angeles (California), March-June 2007
University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Buenos Aires (Argentina), September-December, 2006
Oral Presentations
Plenary Lectures (invited single stream lectures in meetings with parallel sessions)
TBA, Mary Cartwright lecture of the London Mathematical Society, 2018.
TBA, 19th ÖMG Congress and Annual DMV Meeting, Salzburg, Austria, 11-15 September, 2017.
TBA, French-German-Italian Conference on Optimization, Paderborn, Germany, 25-28 September 2017.
TBA, SIAM annual meeting, Pittsburg, US, 10-14 July 2017.
Model-based learning in imaging, IMA Conference on the Mathematical Challenges of Big Data,
London, UK, 1-2 Dec 2016.
Seeing more in pictures - a mathematical perspective, EMS/EWM Survey Lecture, 7th European
Mathematics Congress, Berlin, Germany, 17 July 2016.
Bilevel learning of variational regularisation models, Problèmes Inverses, Controle et Optimisation de
Formes (PICOF), Autrans, France, 1-3 June 2016.
Customising Image Analysis Using Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, SIAM Conference on
Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Scottsdale, Arizona, US, 7-10 December 2015.
SIAM Keynote Lecture on The variational image: structure of images and their computational
treatment, Young Researchers in Mathematics Conference 2015, University of Oxford, UK, 17-20
August 2015.
Image retrieval and analysis in biomedical imaging: some successful examples and unsolved challenges,
Congress for Ingenieria Biomedica y Modelizacion Matematica en Biociencias, Quito, Ecuador, 4-6 June
2014.
Optimizing the Optimizers - What is the Right Image and Data Model?, SIAM Imaging Conference
2014, Hong Kong, 12-14 May 2014.
Public Lectures
Mathematics can make you fly?, London Mathematical Society / Gresham College lecture, 23 May
2017, Gresham College, London, UK.
Restoring Profanity: Applying Mathematics to Digital Image Restoration, Cambridge AWISE, Lucy
Cavendish College, Cambridge (UK), 9 May 2013.
Member in Panel Discussions
Exhibition opening of Women of Mathematics Throughout Europe, Cambridge, UK, 25 April 2017.
Women in Data Science Workshop, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, 7 December 2016.
Dagstuhl Seminar on Inpainting-based Compression, Dagstuhl, Germany, 14-18 November 2016.
Invited Conference & Workshop Presentations (invited talks at single stream meetings)
Dynamic optimal transport in imaging, 3rd Applied Mathematics Symposium Münster, Workshop on
Shape, Images and Optimization, Münster, Germany, 28 February - 3 March 2017.
Mathematical challenges in electron microscopy, The AIMR International Symposium 2017, Sendai,
Japan, 13-17 February 2017.
Dynamic optimal transport in imaging: some results and challenges, MFO workshop on Optimal
Transport, Oberwolfach, Germany, 29 January - 4 February 2017.
Gradient descent in a generalised Bregman distance framework, Women in Optimisation, Trier,
Germany, 20-22 March 2017.
The Mathematics of Arts Restoration, Arts & Science Conference, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,
UK, 8-10 December 2016.
Customised PDEs for image analysis, Workshop on Women in PDEs, University of Vienna, Austria,
28-30 November 2016.
Anisotropic interpolation of surfaces, Dagstuhl Seminar on Inpainting-based Compression, Dagstuhl,
Germany, 14-18 November 2016.
Seeing more in images - a mathematical perspective, Joint MedViz and Eurographics Visual Computing
Workshop for Biology and Medicine, Bergen, Norway, 7-9 September 2016.
TBA, Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Machine Learning based on Optimization
and PDEs, Bergen, Norway, 29 August - 1 September 2016.
Mathematics of Tomography, Keynote talk at ToScA 2016, Bath, UK, 6-7 September 2016.
Discrete gradients for computing inverse imaging solutions, Workshop on Optimization in Image
Processing, Harvard University, MA, 27-30 June 2016.
Mathematical image analysis – from mitotic cells into the woods and to medieval art works, CIMPA
Summer Research School in Mathematical modeling in Biology and Medicine, Santiago de Cuba, 8-17
June 2016.
Mathematical image analysis – from mitotic cells into the woods and to medieval art works, SIAM
Cambridge Student Chapter Conference, University of Cambridge, ?5 May 2016.
Bilevel optimisation for variational regularisation models, Workshop on High-dimensional Statistics,
Inverse Problems and Convex Analysis, Royal Statistical Society, London, UK, 22 March 2016.
Bilevel optimisation for variational regularisation models, Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems
Meeting, University of Warwick, UK, 22-24 February 2016.
Bilevel learning of variational models, Oberwolfach workshop on Mathematical Imaging and Surface
Processing, MFO (Germany), 24-30 January 2016.
What is the right sparsity in imaging?, Workshop on Compressive Sensing and Sparsity, Manchester
(UK), 12-13 November 2015.
Learning variational regularization models for image denoising by PDE constrained optimization, IHP
Inverse Problems Programme, workshop on Stability and reconstruction issues in inverse problems,
Paris (France), 29 June - 3 July 2015.
A case study for discrete gradients in image processing, DIMMA Workshop on Numerical Analysis,
Complex and Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, NTNU, Trondheim (Norway), 1-5 June 2015.
Total variation regularisation as a discrete gradient flow, Workshop on New Trends in Optimization for
Imaging, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum, TSIMF (China), 19-23 January 2015.
Total variation regularisation as a discrete gradient flow, IFIP TC7 Workshop on Inverse Problems and
Imaging, Akademie Wolfsburg in Mülheim a.d. Ruh (Germany), 15-17 December 2014.
Optimising the optimisers - what is the right image and data model?, RICAM Special Semester,
Variational Methods in Imaging, Linz (Austria), 27-31 October 2014.
Contrast-enhanced and sparse reconstruction for sub-sampled MR velocity imaging, Oberwolfach
Workshop on Mathematical Tomography, MFO (Germany), 11-16 August 2014.
Optimising the optimisers – what is the right image and data model?, SFB meeting on Imaging with
Modulated/Incomplete Data, Graz (Austria), 3-5 July 2014.
Optimizing the optimizers - an adaptive approach to image reconstruction, Workshop on Computations
in infinite dimensions: Challenges in a continuous world, Kavli Royal Society International Centre at
Chicheley Hall (UK), 30 June - 1 July, 2014.
Optimising image reconstruction by nonlinear PDE constrained optimisation, Conference on Numerical
Analysis for Partial Differential Equations, University of Sussex, Brighton (UK), 18-20 June 2014.
Optimising the image optimisers, Conference on Progrés récents dans l’analyse mathématique et
numérique des problémes inverses, CIRM Marseille (France), 19-23 May 2014.
Optimising the image optimisers, Oxbridge-PDE meeting, Cambridge (UK), 20-21 March 2014.
Anisotropic Third Order Regularisation for Surface Interpolation, Workshop on Shape Analysis,
Dagstuhl (Germany), 10-14 February 2014.
Higher-Order PDE Techniques for Image Restoration, MIA (Mathematics and Image Analysis) 2012,
Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris (France), 16-18 January 2012.
Domain decomposition for TV regularised parallel MRI, Workhop on Mathematical Imaging in
Interaction with Biomedicine, ICMS, Edinburgh, September 5 - 9, 2011.
Alternating total variation minimisation for PET reconstruction, INI-Workshop on Inverse Problems,
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, August 22 - 26, 2011.
Total variation regularized optimal transport for smoothing and density estimation, Workshop on
Multi-Scale and High Contrast PDE: from Modelling to Mathematical Analysis to Inversion,
Mathematical Institute, Oxford, 28 June -1 July 2011.
Regularised optimal transport for density estimation and smoothing, Inverse Problems and Optimal
Control for PDEs, Warwick Mathematics Institute, May 23-27, 2011.
Nonlinear PDEs in Imaging, Modern Topics in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Oxbridge PDE
Days, Mathematical Institute, Oxford, April 26-27, 2011.
Minimisation of sparse higher-order energies for large-scale problems in imaging, LMS Invited Lectures,
March 21-25, 2011
Smoothing and density estimation with optimal transport, Optimal Transport IPAM - reunion
Conference, UCLA Conference Centre, Lake Arrowhead (CA), December 12-17, 2010.
Higher-Order Total Variation for Oscillating Patterns, Workshop on Highly Oscillatory Problems.
Isaac-Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge (UK), September 13-17, 2010.
Domain Decomposition for Total Variation Regularized Parallel MRI, Workshop on Novel
Reconstruction Strategies in NMR and MRI 2010. Göttingen (Germany), September 9-11, 2010.
Regularized Optimal Transport, Optimal Transport Reunion Conference I. UCLA Conference Centre in
Lake Arrowhead (California), December 6-11, 2009.
Domain Decomposition Algorithm for `1 Regularized Inverse Problems, annual Goslar Workshop 2009 of
the Graduiertenkolleg 1023. Goslar (Germany), October 12-14, 2009.
Fourth-Order PDEs for Image Restoration, EPSRC Symposium Workshop on New directions in
computational partial differential equations. Warwick (UK), January 12-16, 2009.
Certain Aspects of H −1 Constrained Total Variation Minimization for Image Inpainting, Random
Shapes Reunion Conference I. UCLA Conference Centre in Lake Arrowhead (California), December
7-12, 2008.
Instabilities in the Cahn-Hilliard equation and the Willmore functional, Workshop on Singularities in
nonlinear evolution phenomena and applications. Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Pisa
(Italy), May 2008.
Unconditionally Stable Schemes for Higher Order Inpainting. Random Shapes culminating workshop,
UCLA Conference Center in Lake Arrowhead (California), June 2007.
The Behavior of the Optimal Hole in the Steklov Eigenvalue Problem in Thin Domains. Encuentro
Nacional de Ecuaciones Diferenciales (ENED 2006). La Falda (Córdoba) (Argentina), November 2006.
Invited Minisymposium Talks
TBC, talk at Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) Conference, Hangzhou, China, 29 May - 2 June 2017.
A Variational Model for Joint Motion Estimation and Image Reconstruction, British Applied
Mathematics Conference, Surrey, UK, 10-12 April 2017.
Bilevel optimisation for variational regularisation models & Discrete gradients for computing inverse
imaging solution, two talks at IPMS in Fetihye, Turkey, 23-27 May 2016.
A numerical solver for a Total Variation Wasserstein flow, SciCADE 2015, Potsdam (Germany), 14-18
September 2015.
Learning in variational image regularisation & Total variation regularisation as a discrete gradient flow,
two talks at ICIAM 2015 in Beijing (China), August 10-14, 2015.
Joint inversion and inpainting for limited angle tomography, IFIP 2015, Sophia Antipolis, 29 June - 3
July 2015.
Mixed noise models and their adaption to image data & Regularisation in image and data space for
tomographic inversion, two talks at AIP in Helsinki (Finland), 25-29 May 2015.
Total variation regularisation as a discrete gradient flow, FOCM Conference, Montevideo (Uruguay),
11-20 December 2014.
Optimising image reconstruction by nonlinear PDE constrained optimisation, IPTA 2014, Bristol (UK),
26-28 August 2014.
Directional splitting for nonlinear fourth-order PDEs in imaging applications, Conference on Elliptic
and parabolic problems, Gaeta (Italy), 26-30 May 2014.
Optimisation for Image Processing, International Conference on Engineering and Computational
Mathematics (ECM) 2013, Hong Kong, 16-18 December 2013.
Higher-Order Variational Techniques for Image Reconstruction and Enhancement, FGP Optimisation
Conference 2013, Krakow (Poland), 23-27 September 2013.
Non-smooth geometric reconstruction for high resolution MRI imaging of fluid transport in bed reactors,
Minisymposium on Inverse problems with experimental data, Applied Inverse Problems (AIP)
Conference 2013, Daejeon (South Korea), 1-5 July 2013.
Domain decomposition for total variation regularisation and applications, 3rd IMA Conference on
Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimisation, University of Birmingham, 10-12 September 2012.
Analysis of an alternating regularisation technique for PET reconstruction, BAMC (British Applied
Mathematics Conference) 2012, UCL, London (UK), 27-29 March 2012.
Second- versus fourth-order dynamics in imaging, AWM Anniversary Conference at ICERM, Brown
University, 17 - 18 September 2011.
Compressive and parallel mathematical techniques for large-scale imaging problems, demo presentation
at the BBSRC/AHRC Workshop on the Challenges of Visualising Biological Data, Bristol (UK),
November 16-17, 2010.
Total Variation Meets Topological Persistence: A First Encounter, ICNAAM 2010. Rhodes (Greece),
September 19-25, 2010.
Chaos, Noise, Randomness and Coincidence as Constitutional for Generative Art, Bridges Conference
on Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture. Pecs (Hungary), July 24-28, 2010.
Higher Order Total Variation Inpainting, Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting on Emerging Topics
in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations (DSPDEs’10). Barcelona (Spain), May 31 –
June 4, 2010.
Recent Numerical Methods for Large-scale Problems in Imaging Applications, SIAM Conference on
Imaging Science. Chicago (Illinois), April 12-14, 2010.
Inpainting of Ancient Austrian Frescoes, Bridges Conference on Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture,
Culture. Leeuwarden (The Netherlands), July 24-28, 2008.
A Generalization of Cahn-Hilliard Inpainting for Grayvalue Images, Minisymposium on Nonlinear PDE
techniques in imaging at the 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(ICIAM 2007), Zürich (Switzerland), July 2007.
Cahn-Hilliard inpainting and the Willmore functional, Minisymposium on The role of scale and
orientation in mathematical image analysis at the 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (ICIAM 2007), Zürich (Switzerland), July 2007.
Numerical Study of Stability Properties of the Cahn-Hilliard equation. International Congress of
Mathematicians (ICM 2006). Madrid (Spain), August 2006.
Cahn-Hilliard Inpainting and the Willmore Functional. SIAM Conference on Imaging Science 2006.
Minneapolis (Minnesota), May 2006.
Feature Selection and Clustering in Arts Analysis. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing
Conference (IMVIP 2003). University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, September 2003.
Colloquia & Seminar Talks
Bilevel learning of variational models, ETH Colloquium, Zürich, Switzerland, 8 March 2017.
Bilevel optimisation for variational regularisation models, Applied and Pure Maths Seminar, East
Anglia University, UK, 16 May 2016.
A generalized model for optimal transport of images including dissipation and density modulation,
Analysis seminar, University of Loughborough, UK, 4 May 2016.
Bilevel optimisation for variational regularisation models, Applied and Computational Mathematics
seminar, University of Edinburgh, UK, 17 March 2016.
PDE constrained optimisation for learning the optimal image de-noising model, Maths Seminar Series,
University of Reading, UK, 9 February 2016.
Image processing with partial differential equations, Graduiertenkolleg, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1
February 2016.
PDE constrained optimisation for learning the optimal image de-noising model, Numerical Analysis
Seminar, University of Oxford, UK, 21 January 2016.
PDE constrained optimisation for learning the optimal image de-noising model, Applied PDE Seminar,
Imperial College London, UK, 19 January 2016.
What is the right sparsity in imaging?, Mathematics Colloquium, Technical University of Berlin,
Germany, 6 January 2016.
Learning variational regularization models for image denoising by PDE constrained optimization,
Seminario Matematico e Fisico, Politecnico di Milano, 17 June 2015.
Learning variational regularization models for image denoising by PDE constrained optimization,
Seminario di Matematica Applicata, University of Pavia, Italy, 16 June 2015.
Learning variational regularization models for image denoising by PDE constrained optimization,
Algebra and Analysis seminar, University of Nottingham, UK, 10 June 2015.
From imperfection to information: a mathematical approach to image retrieval and analysis,
Mathematics Colloquium, University of Vienna, Austria, 22 October 2014.
From images, corruption and resolution: a mathematical approach, The Archimedians, Cambridge, UK,
31 January 2014.
Noise Estimation by PDE-constrained Optimisation, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, 16 July 2013.
Mathematical image enhancement in medicine, forensics and the arts, Schlumberger Gould Research
Center, Cambridge, UK, June 25, 2013.
Directional splitting for nonlinear fourth-order PDEs in imaging applications, Universität Münster,
Germany, June 20, 2013.
Analytical and Computational Methods for `1 and Total Variation Minimization, Universität Bremen,
Germany, May 2, 2013.
Higher-Order Variational Techniques for Image Reconstruction and Enhancement, The University of
New South Wales, AU, April 3, 2013.
Noise Estimation by PDE-constrained Optimisation, Sydney University, AU, April 2, 2013.
Noise Estimation by PDE-constrained Optimisation, Massey University, NZ, March 28, 2013.
Higher-Order Variational Techniques for Image Reconstruction and Enhancement, Mathematics
Colloquium, University of Liverpool, UK, March 8, 2013.
Noise Estimation by PDE-constrained Optimisation, University of Maryland, US, February 6, 2013.
Noise Estimation by PDE-constrained Optmisation, Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria,
December 19, 2012.
Noise Estimation by PDE-constrained Optmisation, University of Münster, Germany, December 14,
2012.
Noise Estimation by PDE-constrained Optmisation, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences
seminar, KAUST, Saudiarabia, December 8, 2012.
Domain decomposition for total variation regularisation and applications, Scientific Computing
Department seminar, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), Didcot (Oxford), UK, November
22, 2012.
Higher-order PDEs and variational techniques for image restoration, PDE seminar, University of Bath,
UK, October 5, 2012.
Operator splitting methods for fourth-order nonlinear PDEs in imaging, Kolloquium der Arbeitsgruppe
Modellierung – Numerik – Differentialgleichungen, TU Berlin, Germany, March 27, 2012.
Alternating total variation minimisation for PET reconstruction, seminar, University of Göttingen,
Germany, March 20, 2012.
Minimisation of sparse higher-order energies for large-scale problems in imaging via parallelisation,
CMIC seminar, UCL, London, UK, February 15, 2012.
Domain decomposition for total variation regularisation and applications, ACM/ERGO seminar,
University of Edinburgh, UK, February 9, 2012.
Second- versus fourth-order dynamics in imaging, Signal Processing Laboratory Seminars, University of
Cambridge, UK, October 12, 2011.
Restoring profanity - mathematical repair of damaged images, Part III Celebration at the Centre for
Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK, April 30, 2011.
Mathematical Imaging, KAUST meeting, Cambridge, UK, January 7, 2011.
T V − L1 PET - alternating regularisation in measurement- and image space, Applied Mathematics
Seminar, University of Münster, Germany, November 24, 2010.
Domain decomposition for total variation regularised parallel MRI, Applied Mathematics Seminar,
University of Warwick, UK, November 10, 2010.
Fourth-Order PDEs for Image Inpainting, Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg, Austria,
May 17, 2010.
Density Estimation and Smoothing Bases on Regularized Optimal Transport, Applied Mathematics
Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, US,
December 16, 2009.
A Domain Decomposition Algorithm for Total Variation Minimization, INRIA, centre de recherche Lille
– Nord Europe. Lille, France, November 19, 2009.
A Domain Decomposition Algorithm for Parallel MRI, Institut für Numerische Simulation, Universität
Bonn. Bonn, Germany, November 11, 2009.
Domain Decomposition Algorithm for TV Regularized Inverse Problems, Max Planck Institute for
Biophysical Chemistry. Göttingen, Germany, October 14,2009.
Cahn-Hilliard Inpainting and Beyond. Mathematics, University of Sussex, February 2009.
Subspace Splittings Applied to Total Variation and `1 Minimization. Seminar for Applied Mathematics,
SAM, ETH Zürich, January 2009.
Cahn-Hilliard Inpainting and Beyond. Institut für Numerische Simulation, Universität Bonn, Germany,
January 2009.
Modern PDE Techniques for Image Inpainting. Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik
(NAM), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, November 2008.
Domain Decomposition for Total Variation Minimization. Institut für Numerische und Angewandte
Mathematik, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster.
Münster, Germany, June 2008.
Domain Decomposition for Total Variation Minimization. DAMTP (Department of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics), University of Cambridge, UK, May 2008.
Domain Decomposition for Total Variation Minimization. IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied
Mathematics), UCLA, Los Angeles, US, April 2008.
Inpainting with Higher Order Partial Differential Equations. DAMTP (Department of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics), University of Cambridge, UK, October 2007.
Inpainting with Higher Order Energies. IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics), UCLA,
Los Angeles, US, April 2007.
Variational Approaches in Image Processing. IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics),
UCLA, Los Angeles, US, April 2007.
Stability of the Cahn-Hilliard Equation and its Application in Image Processing. Federal University of
Santa Catarina, Brasil, November 2006.
Instabilities in Cahn-Hilliard and the Willmore functional. University of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
October 2006.
Inpainting with Cahn-Hilliard. University of Vienna, Austria, June 2006.
The Cahn–Hilliard equation for a perturbed stationary solution. University of Vienna, Austria, January
2006
Orthogonale Arrays und Endliche Körper. University of Salzburg, Austria, June 2005.
Some Convergence Problems in Lagrange Interpolation with Equidistant Nodes. University of Salzburg,
Austria, June 2005.
Lagrange Interpolation. University of Salzburg, Austria, January 2005.
Digital Line Detection and Segmentation. University of Salzburg, Austria, June 2004.
Das Paradoxon von Banach Tarski. University of Salzburg, Austria, June 2004.
Image Analysis and Classification. University of Salzburg, Austria, May 2003.
Cambridge, UK. March 23, 2017