Freire owes his mathematical education to
the
Instituto
de Matemática Pura
e Aplicada (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), where
he
worked
in dynamical systems under the
direction of Ricardo Mańé (from
1978 to
1982). From 1982 to 1987 he was a graduate student
at Princeton University and the University of
California,
San Diego. His Ph.D. (Princeton 1988)
was awarded
for a thesis on the Martin boundary
(positive harmonic functions)
of manifolds of non-positive curvature, written
under
the direction of Shing-Tung Yau.
From 1988 to 1991 he was Szegö Assistant
Professor
at Stanford University. Freire
joined the
UTK faculty in August of 1991,
and was promoted to Associate Professor
in June of 1995. He has held visiting positions
at
Warwick
University (Spring 1990), the
ETH Zurich (Winter/Spring 1993), the University
of
Bonn (Fall 1996) and the
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam (Spring
2007). His research
was supported from 1994 to 2001 by grants from
the
National Science
Foundation
(Geometric Analysis program).
From
September 2002 to August 2004, Freire
served as program director in the
Division of Mathematical Sciences of the
National
Science
Foundation (Arlington, VA.)
At UTK, Freire has served on the Faculty Senate (2015-2017) and as Mathematics Graduate Asssociate Head (2019-2022)
Public CV (February 2022)
Summary
and context of research publications (2012)
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