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General Information

Name Lucas Moschen
Languages Portuguese, English, studying French
E-mail lucas.moschen@etu.sorbonne-universite.fr
Description A math student and aspiring scientist with a solid math background. I am interested in Optimal Control, Differential Equations, Probability and Statistics, with applications in Biology, such as Epidemiology, Public Health and Climate modelling.

Education

  • 2023 - current
    MSc in Mathematical Modelling
    Sorbonne University, Laboratoire Jacques Louis-Lion - Paris (France)
    • Advisor Luis Almeida
    • FSMP excellence scholarship
    • Academic grade 17/20
  • 2022 - 2023
    MSc in Mathematical Modelling
    Fundação Getulio Vargas, School of Applied Mathematics - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
    • Advisor María Soledad Aronna
    • Academic grade A in all courses
    • Master's dissertation entitled "Optimal vaccination strategies for epidemics in metropolitan areas"
  • 2018 - 2021
    BSc in Applied Mathematics
    Fundação Getulio Vargas, School of Applied Mathematics- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
    • Advisor Luiz Max Carvalho
    • Bachelor dissertation entitled "Prevalence estimation and binary regression methods for respondent-driven sampling with outcome uncertainty"

Research Experience

  • 2024
    Internship with Luis Almeida
    Sorbonne University, France
    • The theme is mosquito-borne disease models and reinforcement learning for controlling
  • 2022
    Internship with Dante Kalise
    Imperial College London, UK
    • The theme is Control on Fokker-Planck equation.
  • 2022 - 2023
    Dissertation and paper production with Maria Soledad Aronna
    Fundação Getulio Vargas, School of Applied Mathematics
    • The theme is Control on Complex Networks and Epidemics.
  • 2022 - 2023
    Paper production with professor Luiz Max Carvalho.
    Fundação Getulio Vargas, School of Applied Mathematics
    • The theme of the paper is on parameter inference and diagnostics for a bivariate beta distribution.
    • This paper is under the submission process.
  • 2020 - 2021
    Paper production with professors Maria Soledad Aronna and Roberto Guglielmi
    Fundação Getulio Vargas, School of Applied Mathematics
    • Both papers were published (see publications tab).
  • 2019 - 2020
    Scientific Iniciation
    Fundação Getulio Vargas, School of Applied Mathematics
    • Advisor Maria Soledad Aronna
    • Theme on Optimal Control in Biological Models
  • 2014 - 2017
    Junior Scientific Initiation Program in Mathematics
    National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Teaching Experience

  • 2019 - 2023
    Teaching Assistant
    Fundação Getulio Vargas, School of Applied Mathematics
    • MSc level
      • Partial Differential Equations and Applications (2023), Probability (2023), Functional Analysis (2022), Statistical inference (2022), Bayesian Statistics (2022)
    • BSc level
      • Partial Differential Equations (2021, 2022), Curves and Surfaces (2021, 2022), Introduction to Numerical Analysis (2021), Statistical inference (2020), Ordinary Differential Equations (2020) and Linear Algebra (2019)
  • 2019
    Volunteer Algebra teacher
    Project Elos Educação - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
    • Prepare the students for high school entrance exams.

Relevant Knowledge

  • Programming languages
    • Programming skills in Python, R, Julia, C++, Matlab and JavaScript
  • Additional programming skills
    • Programming tools Git, Visual Studio Code and Project Jupyter

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Best poster presentation for the work on COVID-19 mathematical modelling at the Latin American Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics;
    • Best poster presentation for the work on COVID-19 mathematical modelling at the IX Congreso de Matemática Aplicada, Computacional e Industrial;
  • 2022
    • Scientific Initiation Award SBMAC (3rd place) for my Bachelor's Dissertation
  • 2021
    • Academic Excellence with the highest final grade in the BSc course.
  • 2013 - 2017
    • Two gold, one silver and two bronze medals in the Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad of Public Schools;

Social Engagement

  • 2023
    • Local committee of the Latin American Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LACIAM 2023)
    • Representative of graduate students on the School of Applied Mathematics (FGV) Board
  • 2019
    • Volunteer of the project Elos Educação - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  • 2018 - 2019
    • Vice-president of the Student Association of the School of Applied Mathematics, FGV

Conferences

  • 2023
    • Oral presentation in the PGMODays 2023 (Palaiseau, France) organized by Hadamard Foundation entitled "Optimal Vaccinaiton Strategies in Metropolitan Areas"
    • Participant in the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (Heidelberg, Germany) founded and funded by Klaus Tschira Stiftung
    • Poster presentation in the 34th Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) organized by IMPA entitled "Optimal Vaccination Strategies in Interconnected Metropolitan Areas"
    • Poster presentation in the IX Congreso de Matemática Aplicada, Computacional e Industrial (Santa Fé, Argentina) organized by ASAMACI entitled "Mathematical modelling of COVID-19 and analysis of Rio de Janeiro city's outbreak in 2020"
    • Poster presentation in the Latin American Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) organized by FGV EMAp and SBMAC entitled "Mathematical modelling of COVID-19 and analysis of Rio de Janeiro city's outbreak in 2020"
  • 2022
    • Poster presentation at V Mathematical Colloquium of the Southern Region entitled "Parameter estimation of a bivariate beta" (online)
  • 2021
    • Participant in the XL National Congress of Applied and Computational Mathematics organized by SBMAC (online)
    • Participant in the XXXIII Brazilian Colloquium of Mathematics organized by the Institute of Applied and Pure Mathematics (online)
  • 2020
    • Poster presentation in the II Fluminense Meeting of Women in Biomathematics entitled "A model for COVID-19 with isolation, quarantine, and testing" (online)
  • 2019
    • Participant in the XXXII Brazilian Colloquium of Mathematics organized by the Institute of Applied and Pure Mathematics (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • 2018
    • Participant in the III Brazilian Congress of Young Researchers in Pure and Applied Mathematics and Statistics organized by the Federal University of the Parana (Curitiba, Brazil)