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  ERC Consolidator Grant 2015-2020
  On the Polyhedral Escape Problem for linear dynamical systems. Submitted, 2016
  On the Skolem Problem for continuous linear dynamical systems @ ICALP 16
  Proving the Herman-Protocol Conjecture @ ICALP 16
  On recurrent reachability for continuous linear dynamical systems @ LICS 16
  Solvability of matrix-exponential equations @ LICS 16
  On the complexity of the Orbit Problem to appear in JACM, 2016
  On linear recurrence sequences and loop termination (a survey) @ ACM SIGLOG News 2(2), 2015
  On the complexity of linear arithmetic with divisibility @ LICS 15
  On matrix powering in low dimensions @ STACS 15
  On termination of integer linear loops @ SODA 15
  The Polyhedron-Hitting Problem @ SODA 15
  Ultimate Positivity is decidable for simple linear recurrence sequences @ ICALP 14 (Best Paper Award)
  On the Positivity Problem for simple linear recurrence sequences @ ICALP 14
  Advances in parametric real-time reasoning @ MFCS 14
  Positivity problems for low-order linear recurrence sequences @ SODA 14
  The Orbit Problem in higher dimensions @ STOC 13

Foundations of Algorithmic Verification and Theoretical Computer Science; in particular:
  Decision, control, and synthesis problems for continuous and discrete linear dynamical systems (using tools from number theory, Diophantine geometry, real algebraic geometry)
  Automated verification of real-time, probabilistic, and infinite-state systems (e.g. model-checking algorithms, synthesis problems, complexity)
  Logic and applications to verification
  Automated software analysis
  Concurrency

  Publications   (see also DBLP)
  Software
  Funding

  Program Committees: LICS 17 (chair), Bellairs 17 (organiser), Highlights 16, MFCS 16, MFPS 16, DCPS 16, Bellairs 15 (organiser), RP 15, RV 15, ICALP 15, MFPS XXXI, LATA 15, RP 14 (co-chair), SCSS 14, Dagstuhl Seminar 14141 (co-organiser), MFPS XXX, CSL-LICS 14, MFPS XXIX, WoLLIC 13, CAV 13, ESOP 13, MOVEP 12, QFM 12, CAV 12, VECoS 11, MFPS XXVII (chair), CONCUR 11, RTRTS 10, GPMFV 10, VECoS 10, FORMATS 10, MOVEP 10, EPEW 10, MFPS XXV, FORMATS 09 (co-chair), QEST 09, STACS 09, FORMATS 08, SPIN 08, QEST 08, FORMATS 07, PAuL 07, CSL 07, QAPL 07, HSCC 07, EXPRESS 06, FORMATS 06, LICS 06, AVIS 04
  Invited Talks: FoSSaCS 17, EQINOCS 16, Heilbronn Conference 2015, FFM 15, GDR-IM 15, TbiLLC 15, LMS/BCS-FACS 14, VTSA 14, GandALF 14, AISS 14, SCSS 13, FroCoS 13, FCT 13, LATA 13, RP 12, QMC 12, LSV15Y, Needham Lecture 2010, ICALP 10, MFPS XXVI, AVACS 10, VECoS 09, FORMATS 08, QAPL 06
  Associate Editor of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS)

  PhD Students: Joao Sousa Pinto
  Postdocs: Amaury Pouly, Nathanael Fijalkow, Dmitry Chistikov, Shaull Almagor
  Former Members

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