Víctor Ballester Ribó

Imperial College LondonLondon, UK

• Working on flow transition over gaps using Nektar++.
• Supervised by Spencer Sherwin and Yongyun Hwang.

Dauphine - PSL UniversityParis, France

• GPA: 16.54 / 20.00
• Minor in Physics, specifically in Computational Fluid Dynamics.
• Final master's project (supervised by Alexandros Alexakis and Emmanuel Dormy): 2D turbulence spreading.

Autonomous University of BarcelonaCerdanyola, Spain

• GPA: 9.42 / 10.00
• Ranked #1 in my graduating class.
• Honors: 186 / 240 ETCS
• Final bachelor's project (supervised by J.M. Mondelo): Numerical propagation of trajectories of Earth-orbiting spacecraft.

Imperial Maths SchoolLondon, UK

• I mentored high school students on a numerical linear algebra research project comparing how the computational efficiency of different solvers scales with matrix size and sparsity for dense and sparse systems.

Imperial College LondonLondon, UK

• Assisting in the teaching of the course Mathematics 1, Mathematics 2 and Applications of CFD for undergraduate and master's students.

Imperial College LondonLondon, UK

• Member of the Aerodynamics and Simulation team for the Imperial Formula Racing team, competing in the Formula Student competition.

Nesin Mathematics VillageSelçuk, Turkey

• Attendance to courses on Dynamical Systems, PDEs and Probability.

Barcelona Graduate School of MathematicsBarcelona, Spain

• Attendance to minicourses on Introduction to Research, from the fields of Algebraic Topology and Number Theory to Applied Mathematics and Discrete Mathematics.
• Worked on a research project (supervised by Jezabel Curbelo and Álvaro Meseguer): From chaotic dynamical systems to fluid turbulence.

• Study of the 2D turbulence propagation after locally injected turbulence is applied in the center of the domain.
• Supervised by Alexandros Alexakis and Emmanuel Dormy.

• Dynamical systems study of the instabilities and chaotic states of the 2D Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation.
• Supervised by Laurette Tuckerman.

• Reconstruction of orbits of satellites from real initial data when considering the Earth a non-uniform spherical distribution of mass and other minor perturbations.
• Supervised by J.M. Mondelo.

• Full scholarship covering tuition fees and providing a stipend of around £20 000 per year for the PhD in Aeronautics at Imperial College London.

• Awarded to the student with the best academic record in the Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics at Autonomous University of Barcelona for the graduating class 2019-2023.

• Scholarship that covered tuition fees and provideed a monthly stipend of 1100€ for the M2 Applied and Theoretical Mathematics program at Dauphine-PSL University.

• Second best qualified Spanish individual and top quartile on the west division of the 2022 Simon Marais Mathematics Competition.

• Best qualified Spanish pair on the west division of the 2021 Simon Marais Mathematics Competition, jointly with Misael Malqui.

• Awarded the silver medal at the national finals of the Spanish Physics Olympiad held in Salamanca.