OVERVIEW
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ABOUT ME
Current affiliations
I am the Lois M. Lackner Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am currently the editor-in-chief of the Illinois Journal of Mathematics.
CURRICULUM
from 2025 to 2026
IMM International Faculty, International Mathematics Master (IMM) Algeria
Algeria
from 2012 to Present
Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
USA
from 2007 to 2012
Professor, University of Lisbon
Portugal
from 2003 to 2007
Associate Professor, University of Lisbon
Portugal
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Interests
My research interests include Poisson and symplectic geometry, Lie theory and integrable systems. An introduction to modern day Poisson geometry can be found in the book:
- M. Crainic, R.L. Fernandes, and I. Marcut, Lectures on Poisson Geometry, Graduate Studies in Mathematics 217, American Mathematical Society, 2021. (see also the AMS Web Page where you can order a copy).
My general area of work is Differential Geometry and you can find an introduction to the subject in my lecture notes:
- R. L. Fernandes, Lectures on Differential Geometry, World Scientific, 2024 (see World Scientific webpage, where you can buy a copy)
Awards
2018 Simons Fellow in Mathematics
2016 AMS Fellow
2014-2016 Science without Borders Special Visiting Researcher,
IMPA, Brazil Beca del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia 2008 for sabbatical at CRM-Barcelona,
Spain Chercheur invité CNRS at Université de Paul Sabatier-Toulouse, France, 2007
Corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences since December 2006.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Award for the Basic Sciences, 2001
Outstanding Thesis Award, University of Minnesota, USA, 1994
NATO PhD Grant at University of Minnesota 1989-93
Fulbright-Hays Grant 1989-90
Books edited
- Geometry and Physics: XVI International Fall Workshop, R.L. Fernandes and R. Picken (eds.), AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 1023, 228 p., 2008.
- Celebrating 10 years of the Geometry in Lisbon Seminar, Proceedings of the Summer School held at IST, Lisbon, July 13–17, 2009. R.L. Fernandes and A. Cannas da Silva (eds.), Port. Math. 67 (2010), no. 2, 119.
- Proceedings of the conference Poisson 2010 - Poisson Geometry in Mathematics and Physics, H. Bursztyn, R.L. Fernandes J-H. Lu and A. Weinstein, (eds.), special issue of the Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society 42 (2011) nº 4.