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Gieri Simonett is a Swiss mathematician known for his work in nonlinear parabolic evolution equations, moving interfaces, and applications to fluid dynamics. His native language is Rumantsch.

Education
Simonett earned his diplom in Mathematics from University of Zurich, followed by his PhD (also from Zurich) in 1992; his dissertation was titled Zentrumsmannigfaltigkeiten fuer quasilineare parabolische Gleichungen (center manifolds for quasilinear parabolic equations).

Career
After earning his PhD, Simonett worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA (1992-1995), supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He moved to the Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University in 1995, where he currently holds a position of professor. He works on partial differential equations in functional analytic settings, establishing results for moving interface problems in applications, such as Hele-Shaw flow and the Stefan problem , in addition to applications in purely geometric settings, such as the mean curvature , surface diffusion , and Willmore flows.