Mathematician

Invariant measures, randomness, supercritical regimes, and the equations that carry them

I work at the meeting point of nonlinear partial differential equations and stochastic analysis. Most of my research asks a single question in different guises: what does a Hamiltonian or fluid equation preserve over long times, and what can a well-chosen measure tell us that a single trajectory cannot?

That question has taken me through invariant measures for the Benjamin–Ono and Klein–Gordon equations, almost sure global well-posedness in the energy supercritical regime, with applications to the nonlinear Schrödinger equations, and invariant measures for the surface quasi-geostrophic and Euler equations. The method built on inviscid limits of damped and driven equations, turns out to reach problems where deterministic techniques stop.

Since taking the German Research Chair at AIMS Rwanda I have been building something alongside the research: a school focused on probabilistic methods in PDEs, within a DAAD cooperation with Bielefeld University.

Currently

PositionGerman Research Chair in Mathematics and its Applications, AIMS Rwanda, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Also atAnnual three-month research residency, University of Bielefeld
DirectingPDEs and Randomness, the annual summer school at AIMS Rwanda, fourth edition in December 2026
BuildingStochArena, an interactive probability and statistics platform in French, English and Pulaar
1 to 11 December 2026 · AIMS Rwanda, Kigali

PDEs and Randomness, fourth edition

Eleven days of lecture courses, working sessions and posters for graduate students and early-career researchers. Fully funded: travel, accommodation and meals. Applications close 15 September 2026.

Call for applications

Research

Publications and preprints

Partial differential equations and stochastic analysis: nonlinear Schrödinger and wave equations, supercritical equations, invariant and Gibbs measures, Euler and Navier–Stokes type equations, KPZ universality.

Preprints and submitted work

preprint Probabilistic global well-posedness for the energy supercritical Schrödinger equations on compact manifolds with S. Gueye and F. G. Longmou-Moffo arXiv:2502.08812
preprint Almost sure global well-posedness for 3D Euler and other fluid dynamics models with J. Földes
preprint Almost sure global well-posedness for the energy supercritical NLS on the unit ball of R3 with X. Yu

Published

NLS with exponential nonlinearity on compact surfaces with F. G. Longmou-Moffo · Nonlinearity 39 DOI
On properties of statistically stationary solutions to the one-dimensional Schrödinger map equation with E. Gussetti · Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations DOI
Regularity and pathwise bounds for probabilistic solutions of PDEs Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications DOI
Global well-posedness of the cubic fractional NLS on the unit disc with X. Yu · Nonlinearity DOI
Invariant measures and global well-posedness for the SQG equation with J. Földes · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis DOI
Global well-posedness and long-time behavior of the fractional NLS with X. Yu · Stochastics and Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations 10(4), 1261–1317 DOI
Almost sure global well-posedness for the energy supercritical Schrödinger equations Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées DOI
Invariant measure and large time dynamics of the cubic Klein–Gordon equation in 3D Stochastics and Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations DOI
Invariant measure and long time behavior of regular solutions of the Benjamin–Ono equation Analysis & PDE 11(8), 1841–1879 DOI
Invariant measures for Hamiltonian PDEs Doctoral thesis, Université de Cergy-Pontoise · advisors A. Shirikyan and N. Tzvetkov Mathematics Genealogy

General questions I am working on

  • Statistics of turbulence.
  • Well-posedness beyond determinism.
  • New approaches in the probabilistic theory of PDEs.

Activities

Schools, talks and public engagement

Events I organise or take part in. The school in Kigali is the one I run.

1 to 11 December 2026 · AIMS Rwanda, Kigali

PDEs and Randomness, fourth edition

The annual school I direct at AIMS Rwanda. Nine days of lecture courses, problem sessions and poster evenings, for master's students, doctoral students and postdocs working across probability and partial differential equations. Fully funded, applications close 15 September 2026.

Programme and call for applications

Organised

Dec 2026 PDEs and Randomness, fourth edition 1 to 11 December · AIMS Rwanda, Kigali · within the DAAD cooperation with Bielefeld University
Jul 2025 PDEs and Randomness, third edition 21 to 31 July · AIMS Senegal, Mbour
Jul 2024 PDEs and Randomness, school and conference 1 to 7 July · AIMS Senegal, Mbour
Oct 2023 PDEs and Randomness, first edition 23 to 27 October · AIMS Senegal, Mbour
2023– Co-organiser of scientific events in Senegal
2020 Co-organiser of a special session, American Mathematical Society

Upcoming

Sep 2026 Symposium on Systems Optimization for Sustainable Resources Utilization 22 to 24 September · AIMS Research and Innovation Centre, Kigali · invited speaker

Recent talks and mini-courses

Nov 2025 Some mathematical principles for economists Course, 25 November · Université de Nouakchott, Mauritania
Nov 2025 The mathematics of the quantum world Course, 16 to 20 November · Université de Nouakchott, Mauritania
Oct 2025 Regularization in the fluctuation-dissipation method Research talk, 31 October · CY Institute of Advanced Studies, Neuville-sur-Oise, France
Sep 2025 On the fluctuation-dissipation method Mini-course, 26 September · Bielefeld University, Germany
May 2025 Invariant measures and the global regularity problem Research talk, 23 May · Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
May 2025 Mesures invariantes et problème de régularité globale Research talk, 13 May · Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
Feb 2025 Applications of Mathematics to Development Challenges Conference, 24 February · Institut Supérieur de Génie Industriel, Nouakchott, Mauritania
Feb 2025 Mini-course, Université de Nouakchott 24 to 26 February · Nouakchott, Mauritania
Dec 2024 Mini-course, Université de Nouakchott 16 to 20 December · Nouakchott, Mauritania
Dec 2024 Mini-course, AIMS Ghana 9 to 13 December · Accra, Ghana
Oct 2024 Talk, Bielefeld University 16 October · Bielefeld, Germany
Jul 2024 Talk, CIRM 30 July · Marseille, France
May 2024 Talks at ZMT Bremen and at the University of Bonn 3 May · Germany
Oct 2023 Mini-courses at AIMS Senegal and at Bielefeld University 23 to 27 October, Mbour · 4 to 6 October, Bielefeld
Aug 2023 NLAGA BIRS Biennale Conference 25 August · Saly, Senegal
Earlier Seminars and conferences in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France Including ICERM, the Mathematical Congress of the Americas, AMS Sectional Meetings, Oxford, Imperial College London, MIT, Brown, Maryland, Tulane, Georgia Tech and Institut Fourier

Research stays

2025 CY Institute of Advanced Studies, France 1 October to 5 November · Neuville-sur-Oise
2025 Bielefeld University, March to May and September · Université de Nouakchott, February and November
2024 Bielefeld University, April to June and September Also AIMS Ghana and Université de Nouakchott in December, CIRM Marseille in July and August, ZMT Bremen and the University of Bonn in May, AIMS South Africa in March
2023 Bielefeld University, September to October · University of Washington, May to June
Earlier University of Virginia, UMass Amherst, Oxford, Tulane, MIT, Maryland and Brown 2016 to 2022

Mathematics in African languages

Books Four books written in Pulaar Hakkille Ganndiweejo, on scientific method and critical thinking, 2024 · Ñoggannde Silo Hiisiwo, 2022 · Gannde Hiisiwe, 2019 · Binndande Hiisankooje, Papyrus Afrique, 2016
Jul 2024 Joint conference with Prof. Diaraf Seck on mathematics and societies 31 July · CIRM, Marseille, with a focus on African societies
Sep 2021 Mathematical aspects of some African games Forum Africain des Humanités, UNESCO, Bamako, Mali
Jun 2017 Scientific work on African languages Conférence Africaine des Humanités, UNESCO, Bamako, Mali
Apr 2016 Talk at an international conference on cultural development Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal

Public engagement

Nouakchott Kinkéli-Débat at ESTIM: what do the statistics say about us? Public debate on statistical literacy
Media Television and radio on mathematics in African languages
2014–15 Raconte-moi ta thèse, mathematics popularisation Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris

Teaching

Courses, supervision and written material

Courses

AIMS Graduate courses at AIMS Probability, stochastic analysis and partial differential equations, AIMS Senegal and AIMS Rwanda
Course Probabilistic Methods in PDEs A lecture course for a mixed audience
JHU Johns Hopkins University Ordinary differential equations, Honors Analysis, Calculus on Manifolds
2018–21 University of Virginia Probability, Multivariable Calculus, Stochastic PDEs
2014–18 Université de Cergy-Pontoise Analysis, Probability, Algebra

Supervision

2025– Moustapha Agne Postdoctoral researcher
2025– Peguy Kameni Nteutse Postdoctoral researcher
2024 Abdellahi Soumare Postdoctoral researcher
2024– Seynabou Gueye Doctoral student · co-author on arXiv:2502.08812
2024– Longmou Moffo Filone Gilson Doctoral student · co-author on the 2026 paper in Nonlinearity and arXiv:2502.08812
2019 Yunlu Li Directed reading, mathematics major dissertation, University of Virginia
2018 Penda Sall Undergraduate dissertation, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
2017 Ousmane Boly Undergraduate mathematics dissertation, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
2015 Claire Bertona Undergraduate teaching dissertation, Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Service

  • Reviewer for international mathematics journals since 2017.
  • Member of the scientific committee of the Yahya Ould Hamidoune Prize since 2025.

Interactive

Platform

StochArena

An interactive probability and statistics platform in French, English and Pulaar. Experiments students run rather than read about. stocharena.com

Curriculum vitae

Positions, education and distinctions

Positions

2023– Humboldt Chair in Mathematics and its Applications Humboldt African Institute for Mathematical Sciences · AIMS Senegal from August 2023, AIMS Rwanda since January 2026
Annual Research residency, Bielefeld University Three months each year
2024– External member, Laboratoire d'Analyse Numérique et d'Informatique Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal
2022–23 Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University August 2022 to July 2023
2021–22 Research Associate, Imperial College London June 2021 to July 2022 · in the group of Prof. Martin Hairer
2018–21 Whyburn Research Associate, University of Virginia

Education

2014–17 Doctorate in Mathematics, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Invariant measures for Hamiltonian PDEs · defended 11 December 2017 · advisors Armen Shirikyan and Nikolay Tzvetkov Mathematics Genealogy
2012–14 MSc in Mathematics, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
2009–12 BSc in Mathematics, Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Grants and distinctions

2025– Member of the scientific committee, Yahya Ould Hamidoune Prize
2024–28 DAAD grant, with Prof. M. Hofmanová German Academic Exchange Service · Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
2023–29 Humboldt Chair Alexander von Humboldt Foundation · Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
2014–17 DIM RDMath IDF doctoral fellowship Région Île-de-France and FSMP
2015 Actions collaboratives award CASDEN bank, FSMP and DIM RDMath IDF
2014 Merit award in the Sciences, master's level Académie de Paris, Chancellerie des universités
2013–14 Excellence grant, Master 2 Université de Cergy-Pontoise
2012–13 RATP grant, Master 1 Fondation UCP and RATP