Brief CURRICULUM VITÆ
CARLOS A. BRAUMANN
Born in Lisboa, Portugal, September 4, 1951
Department of Mathematics, Universidade de Évora
Rua Romão Ramalho 59, 7000-671
Évora
Tel.: 266745364 e-mail: braumann@uevora.pt
Updated January 2025
Professor
Emeritus Professor of the Universidade de Évora
(honorary title) since 2018
ACADEMIC
DEGREES
1988:
"Agregação" (Habilitation), Universidade de
Évora, Stochastic Processes.
1979: Ph. D., State
University of New York at Stony Brook (with equivalence to the Portuguese
Doctoral degree in Sciences - Probability and Statistics).
1973: "Licenciatura" (2 year studies
after Bach.) in Applied Mathematics, Universidade de
Luanda.
1971: Bach. in Mathematics (3 year degree), Universidade de
Luanda.
1968: High School Diploma, Liceu Camões, Lisboa.
Since 2018: Emeritus Professor, Universidade de Évora.
1989-2018: "Professor
Catedrático" (Professor), Universidade de Évora (tenure
since 1991).
At the
Universidade de Évora: Professor Associado (Associate
Professor, 1985-89), Professor Auxiliar (Assistant
Professor, 1979-85), Assistente (Assistant, 1978-79)
e Assistente Eventual ("Junior" Assistant, 1975-78).
At the
At the
Universidade de Luanda: Assistente Eventual (1974), Monitor (1971-73).
2017-2018: Coordinator of the
Group of Courses in the area of Probability, Statistics and Operations Research
at the Department of Mathematics, Universidade de
Évora.
2015-2018: Member (elected) of
the Scientific Council of the University of Évora
2015-2018: Member (elected) of
the Scientific Council of the School of Science and Technology and member
(elected) of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Research and Advanced
Training, both at the Universidade de Évora.
2010-2014: Rector of the
University of Évora.
1994-Mar 2010: Coordinator of
the Research Group "Stochastic and Statistical Applications in Life
Sciences" (initially called "Probability and Statistics") of the
Research Center in Mathematics and Applications of
the University of Évora.
Jan 2009-Mar 2010: Member
(elected) of the Scientific Council of the Universidade
de Évora and member (elected) of the Scientific Council of its School of
Science and Technology.
Nov 2008-Mar 2010: Member of
the Program Committees for the Master Program in Mathematics and Applications
and for the Doctoral Program in Mathematics, Universidade
de Évora.
2002-2005 + 2008-2010:
Coordinator of the Group of Courses in the area of Probability, Statistics and
Operations Research at the Department of Mathematics, Universidade
de Évora.
Nov 2008-Mar 2010: Member of
the Program Committee for the Master Program in Statistical Modeling
and Data Analysis.
1991 + 2005-07: President of
the Department of Mathematics and President of the Directive Council of the
Exact Sciences Departmental Area, Universidade de
Évora.
1999-2001:
President of the Scientific Council of the Universidade
de Évora (by election) and, by inherence, President of the Editorial Council.
1994-99: Director of the
Research Centre in Mathematics and Applications, Universidade
de Évora (two mandates).
1987-94: Vice-Rector of the Universidade de Évora.
1988-90: President of
the Coordinating Committee for the Installation of the Teachers Training Centre
of the Universidade de Évora. Was a member of the
Committee from 1986 to 1988.
1983-87: Vice-President
of the Scientific Council of the Universidade de
Évora (two mandates).
Has worked in several
other function at the Universidade de Évora (member
of the General Council for Social Services, representative of the University at
User Council of the Scientific Computation Network FCCN, Assistant President of
the Department of Mathematics, President of the Jury for the Adult special
entrance examinations, member
of Program Committees for several Licenciatura and
Master degrees, president of several working groups, for example the working
group for the University by-laws, etc.).
Elected member of the International
Statistical Institute since 1991.
Founding member of the Portuguese Statistical Society (former President and, since 2019,
honorary member).
Founding member of the European Society for
Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (former President and currently life-time
member).
Member of the Portuguese Mathematical Society.
Member of the European Mathematical Society.
Life-time member of the American Mathematical
Society.
Life-time member of the Society for
Mathematical Biology
Life-time member of the Bernoulli Society.
Life-time member of the International Association for Statistical Education.
Since 2020- Member of the
jury of the Prémio Carreira (career award) of
SPE - Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística
2016-2024: General Assembly Secretary, Centro Internacional de Matemática (by
election, re-elected in 2021).
2006-2012: President of the
Portuguese Statistical Society
2009-2012: President of the
European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (by election).
2006-2012: Member of the Board
of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (by election).
2008-2012: Member of the European
Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society.
2003-2006, 1985-1988 -
President of the General Assembly Table of SPE - Portuguese Statistical Society
(by election).
1982-84. Member of the General
Assembly Table of SPE (by election).
He is for many years Editor of
the Portuguese Mathematical Society Bulletin and he was for many years Editor
of the SPE Bulletin and of the European Biomathematics Newsletter.
2024-2026: Member
of the Conselho Superior de Estatística (CSE, Portuguese Higher Council of Statistics) appointed
by the Council of Rectors of the Portuguese public Universities.
Since 2024: Collaborator of the Laboratory “Modeling, Applied Mathematics, and
Intelligent Systems (L2MASI)”, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah
University, Fes, Morrocco
2023-2024; 2017-2018: Expert and President of
several External Assessment Committees for the institutional evaluation of
Portuguese universities, A3ES (Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of
Higher Education).
2005-08: Member of CEIES,
consulting body for statistical issues of the European Union.
1989-2002: Member of the Conselho Superior de Estatística
(CSE, Portuguese Higher Council of Statistics) appointed by the Council of
Rectors of the Portuguese public Universities. Participated also in the
Permanent Section of Planning, Coordination and Dissemination, in the Section
of Statistical cooperation and on the Alentejo
Regional Section of SPE.
2000-01: Member of the
External Assessment Committee for the Licenciatura
degree in Mathematics/Statistics of the Portuguese Universities, appointed by
the Evaluation Council of the Foundation of Portuguese Universities.
RESEARCH AREAS
Main area: stochastic
differential equations and applications, particularly models, in a randomly
varying environment, of population growth and harvesting and of animal growth
in farming (modelling; mathematical study of the models; statistical methods of
estimation, testing and prediction).
Other areas: mathematical
models in population genetics, epidemiology, and human mortality rates;
financial applications of stochastic differential equations; statistics.
Has coordinated the projects
in the area of probability, statistics and applications of the Research Centre
in Mathematics and Applications of the Universidade
de Évora.
SCIENTIFIC
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
Organization
Presided the Organizing
Committee and was the Main Editor of the Proceedings of XII Congresso Anual
da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística
(Annual Conference of the Portuguese Statistical Society), held in Évora in
2004.
Presided the Organizing
Committee and was the Main Editor of the Proceedings of the XV Jornadas Luso-Espanholas
de Matemática (Portuguese-Spanish Mathematical
Meeting), international scientific meeting held in Évora in 1990.
Co-Chaired the Organizing Committee and was member of
the Scientific Committee of the international scientific meeting ECMTB 2018
(11th European Conference on Mathematical
and Theoretical Biology, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018).
President of the XIV, XV,
XVI, XVII, XVIII and XIX Annual Congresses of the Portuguese Statistical
Society, held in Covilhã (Sep 2006), in Lisboa (Aug 2007), in Vila Real (Oct 2008), Sesimbra (Sep/Oct 2009), S. Pedro do Sul Sep/Oct 2010) and Nazaré (Sep/Oct 2011), respectively, being co-Editor of the
Proceedings.
Program Co-Chair of the 2nd International Conference
on Mathematics and Statistics ICoMS 2019, Prague, Check Republic, 2019.
Member of the International Organizing Committees of
the 5th to the 16th annual conferences “International
Conference on Dynamical Systems in Biology and Natural Sciences – DSABNS); the
7th (2016) and 8th (2017)
editions were held
at the Universidade de Évora and the 16th edition will
be held in Napoli, Italy, in 2025.
Member of the International
Organizing Committee of the international scientific meeting “Computational and
Mathematical Population Dynamics 3”, held in Bordeaux (France), 2010.
Promotor and member of the
Scientific Committee of the 8th European Conference on Mathematical and
Theoretical Biology, held jointly with the Annual Meeting of the Society for
Mathematical Biology, in Krakow, Poland, 2011.
Organizer of the Workshop on
Dynamical Systems in Biology (international, Évora, 2008)
Member of the Local Programme
Committee and the National Organising Committee of the 56th Session of the
International Statistical Institute (ISI 2007), the main international
scientific meeting in the area of Statistics, held in Lisboa,
Portugal, 2007.
Member of the Organizing
Committee and of the Scientific Committee of the international scientific
meeting “Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics 2”, held in
Campinas (Brazil), 2007.
Member of the Programme
Committee of the international scientific meeting “Probability and Statistics
in Science and Technology” (ISI 2007 satellite organized by the Bernoulli
Society) , held in Porto, 2007.
Member of the Organizing
Committee, the Scientific Committee and/or the Honorary committee of other 22
scientific meetings, 13 national and 30 international.
Organized and presided sessions
in many national and international scientific meetings.
Participation
Gave 81 invited
conferences in scientific meetings (64 of which at international meetings), 14
of them as keynote speaker. Has presented largely over a hundred more other
talks in scientific meetings, mostly international.
Gave several
conferences, courses and mini-courses on topics of his research at the
invitation of several Portuguese, American, and European Universities and other
organizations (like Summer and Autumn Schools, Scientific Societies, Stock
Exchange).
AWARDS
2019: Prémio Carreira (career award) of
SPE - Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística,
with the associated title of SPE honorary member, received during the XXIV
Congress of SPE.
2018: Title of Emeritus Professor of the Universidade de Évora, granted at the University Day
(November 1st), following a proposal coming from the School of Science and
Technology and approved by the University Scientific Council
2018: International scientific meeting organized in
his honour: WMSC 12 - 12th Workshop on Statistics, Mathematics and Computation
in Honour of Professor Carlos Braumann.
2011: Tribute plate from the Board of the European
Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, on the occasion of the 20th
anniversary of the Society, “for his valuable contributions to the Society and
for his achievements in the field”.
2006: Honour plate from the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, on
the occasion of the international scientific meeting SCRA 2006-FIM XIII, “for
Outstanding Contributions in Mathematical Sciences”.
1991: Elected member of the
International Statistical Institute.
1973: Rotary Club de Luanda
Award for the highest grade overall Licenciatura
degrees at the Univ. de Luanda.
1968: D. Dinis
Award as best High School graduate of the Liceu
Camões, Lisboa.
SCIENTIFIC
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Aguiar, M., Braumann, C., Kooi,
B., Pugliese, A., Stollenwerk, N., Venturino, E. (2020, editors). Current Trends in Dynamical
Systems in Biology and Natural Sciences. Springer, xii+243 pgs.
Braumann, C. A. (2019). Introduction
to Stochastic Differential Equations with Applications to Modelling in Biology
and Finance. Wiley, xvi+283 pgs. (with “Solutions to Exercises” as
complementary webpage material).
da Silva, J.L., Caeiro,
F., Natário, I., Braumann, C.A., Esquível, M.L., Mexia,J. (2013, editors). Advances in Regression, Survival Analysis, Extreme Values, Markov
Processes and Other Statistical Applications. Springer, Berlin, xviii+471 pgs.
Oliveira, I., Correia,
E., Ferreira, F., Dias, S., Braumann, C. A. (2009, editord).
Estatística Arte de Explicar o Acaso, Actas do XVI
Congresso Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística. Edições SPE,
Lisboa, xiv+722 pgs.
Magalhães Hill, M.,
Ferreira, M. A., Dias, J. G., Salgueiro, M. F., Carvalho, H., Vicente, P. and
Braumann, C. A. (2008, editors). Estatística,
da Teoria à Prática. Actas do
XV Congresso Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística. Edições
SPE, Lisboa.
Ferrão, M. E.,
Nunes, C., Braumann, C. A. (2007, editors). Estatística Ciência Interdisciplinar, Actas do XIV Congresso Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de
Estatística. Edições SPE, Lisboa.
Braumann,
C. A., Infante, P., Oliveira, M. M., Alpízar-Jara,
R., Rosado, F. (2005, editors).
Estatística Jubilar. Actas XII
Congresso Anual da SPE. Edições SPE, Lisboa.
Braumann, C. A. (1991, editor). XV
Jornadas Luso-Espanholas de Matemática. Actas: Vols. I to
VI. Universidade de Évora.
Papers
Besides other publications, is
the author of over a hundred refereed papers in international journals and in
international and national proceedings and collected works.
Selection
of the 25 most relevant:
Brites, N. M.; Braumann, C. A. (2023). Harvesting
optimization with stochastic differential equations models: is the optimal
enemy of the good? Stochastic Models
39: (1): 41-59.
Brites N. M., Braumann, C. A. (2022). Profit
optimization of stochastically fluctuating populations under harvesting: the
effects of Allee effects. Optimization 71(11): 3277-3293.
Jacinto, G., Filipe, P. A., Braumann, C. A.
(2022). Weighted maximum likelihood estimation for individual growth
models. Optimization 71(11): 3295-3311.
Jacinto, G., Filipe, P. A., Braumann, C.A.
(2022). Profit optimization of cattle growth with variable prices. Methodology
and Computing in Applied Probability 24,: 1917–1952.
Larguinho, M., Dias, J. C., Braumann, C. A. (2022).
Pricing and hedging bond options and sinking-fund bonds under the CIR
model. Quantitative Finance and Economics 6(1): 1-34.
Brites, N. M., Braumann, C. A. (2020).
Stochastic differential equations harvesting policies: Allee effects, logistic‐like
growth and profit optimization. Appl Stochastic Models Bus Ind. 36:
825– 835.
Brites, N. M., Braumann, C. A. (2019). Harvesting in a
random varying environment: optimal, stepwise and sustainable policies for the Gompertz model. Stat.,
Optim. Inf. Comput.
7(3): 533–544.
Brites, N. M., Braumann,
C. A. (2019). Fisheries management in randomly varying environments: Comparison
of constant, variable and penalized efforts policies for the Gompertz model. Fisheries
Research 216: 196-203.
Braumann,
C. A., Cortés, J.-C., Jódar, L., Villafuerte, L.
(2018). On the random gamma function: Theory and Computing. J. Computational and Applied Mathematics
335: 142-155.
Brites, N. M., Braumann,
C. A. (2017). Fisheries management in random environments: Comparison of
harvesting policies for the logistic model. Fisheries
Research 195: 238-246.
Carlos, C., Braumann, C. A. (2017). General population growth models
with Allee effects in a random environment. Ecological
Complexity 30: 26-33.
Filipe, P. A., Braumann, C. A., Carlos, C. (2015). Profit optimization
for cattle growing in a randomly fluctuating environment. Optimization 64 (6): 1393-1407.
Larguinho, M., Dias, J.C., Braumann, C. A. (2013). On the computation of option prices and greeks under the CEV model. Quantitative Finance 13 (6): 907-917
Filipe,
P.A., Braumann, C. A., Roquete, C.J. (2012).
Multiphasic individual growth models in random environments. Methodology and Computing in Applied
Probability 14(1): 49-56.
Filipe,
P.A., Braumann, C. A., Brites, N.M., Roquete, C.J. (2010). Modelling Animal Growth in Random Environments: An Application
Using Nonparametric Estimation. Biometrical
Journal 52(5):653-666.
Villafuerte,
L, Braumann, C. A., Cortés, J.-C., Jódar; L. (2010).
Random differential operational calculus: Theory and applications. Computers & Mathematics with
Applications: 59:115-125.
Braumann, C. A. (2008). Growth and extinction in randomly varying populations. Computers and Mathematics with Applications 56: 631-644.
Braumann, C. A. (2007). Itô versus Stratonovich calculus in
random population growth. Mathematical
Biosciences 206: 81-107.
Braumann, C. A. (2007). Harvesting in a Random Environment: Itô or Stratonovich calculus? J. Theoretical Biology 244: 424-432.
Braumann, C. A. (2002).
Variable effort harvesting models in random environments: generalization to
density-dependent noise intensities. Mathematical
Biosciences 177 & 178: 229-245.
Braumann, C. A. (2001).
Constant effort and constant quota fishing policies with cut-offs in random
environments. Natural Resource Modelling
14 (2): 199-232.
Braumann, C. A. (1999).
Variable effort fishing models in random environments. Mathematical Biosciences 156: 1-19.
Braumann, C. A. (1995).
Threshold crossing probabilities for population growth models in random
environments. J. Biological Systems
3: 505-517.
Braumann, C. A. (1983).
Population growth in random environments. Bull.
Mathematical Biology 45: 635-641.
Sokal, R. R. e
Braumann, C. A. (1980). Significance
tests for coefficients of variation and variability profiles. Systematic Zoology 29: 50-66.
Ginzburg, L. R. e Braumann, C. A. (1980). Multilocus population genetics: relative importance
of selection and recombination. Theoretical
Population Biology 17: 298-320.
OTHER SCIENTIFIC
ACTIVITIES
Supervision of
doctoral, master, and licenciatura thesis, as well as
of licenciatura professional training and post-doc.
Referee for scientific
journals (Appl. Mathem. Modelling, Appl. Mathematics
and Computation, Appl. Mathematics Letters, Bernoulli, Bull. Mathem. Biol., Computers & Mathematics with
Applications, Ecological Complexity, Environmetrics, Forestry,
Intl. J. Mathematics and Mathem. Sc., J. Biological
Systems, J. Mathematical Analysis and Applications, J. Mathem.
Biol., J. Royal Soc. Interface, J. Theoretical Biol., Mathematics and Computers
in Simulation, Mathem. Biosc.,
Natural Resources Modelling, TEMA, Theoretical Population Biology, Chaos
Solitons & Fractals, REVSTAT and, occasionally other journals) and for national
and international Proceedings and Collected Works.
Coordinator of the Projects
“Stochastic and statistical applications in life sciences” (CIMA-UE, 2003-10)
and “Stochastic differential equation modeling of
growth of individual organisms in random environments” (PTDC/MAT/64297/2006,
2007-10), both financed by FCT-Portugal.
Promotor and,
since 2018, Consultant for
Action E- Growth Models (currently coordinated by Gonçalo
Jacinto) of the Operational Group GOBovMais – Productivity improvement in the
system of bovine raising for meat, PDR2020-1.0.1-FEADER-031130, 2017-2022.
From 2007 to 2022, jury member of the Reinhart Heinrich
Doctoral Thesis Award by ESMTB, annual international competition for best
doctoral thesis in Biomathematics.
Since 1985, reviewer of “Zentralblatt Math” (about a hundred reviews of papers and
books) and, since 2015, reviewer of Mathematical Reviews.
Referee for projects,
fellowships, cooperation agreements funding and scientific awards of a variety
of programs from several organisms: JNICT, FCT, INVOTAN, ICCTI, GRICES, CRUP, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Universities.
Was a member of the Counseling Committee of the Research Centre of Applied
Mathematics of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Reviewer for many years
of The Quarterly Review of Biology.
Participation in
numerous juries for academic degrees ("agregação",
Ph. D., Master) or professor, associate and assistant professor positions in Portugal and
abroad. Reports for hiring, promoting, "tenuring"
or inviting professors at many Portuguese and foreign Universities.
TEACHING AND
DISSEMINATION
Gave, together with two
colleagues, the first class of the Universidade de
Évora, on Nov 10, 1975.
Gave his Last Lecture at the Universidade de Évora (“A Matemática,
o Acaso e a Vida”, Mathematics, Chance and Life) on
May 23, 2018.
Lectured more than
thirty different courses in licenciatura, master and
doctoral degrees, mainly in the areas of Mathematical Modelling in Biology,
Stochastic Processes, Probability, and Statistics, but also in other areas of
Mathematics (Analysis, Measure, Topology, Complex Analysis, Linear Algebra,
Geometry). Most were lecture at the Universidade de
Évora, but he also taught at the Universidade de
Luanda and, as a visiting professor, in several Portuguese and foreign
Universities and at national and international Summer and Autumn Schools.
Author of several class notes.
Has developed many activities
(publication of articles, debates, conferences, mini-courses, interventions in
discussion panels at scientific meetings, teachers
meetings, high schools, etc) concerning scientific dissemination and
intervention in issues concerning research, education, and teachers training.
Was a member of the
Counselling Committee of the REANIMAT Project (Gulbenkian's
Project for the Scientific Reanimation de of Mathematics in High School).
Nov 1, 1995: Gave the
Inaugural Lecture (“A Matemática e a Luta pela Vida”,
Mathematics and the Struggle for Life) at the Academic Year official opening (Dia da Universidade de Évora).