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Staff Profile

Dr David Seifert

Head of School

  • Email: david.seifert@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 5882
  • Address:
    School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
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    Herschel Building
    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
Background

I am Head of the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics.

I am a member of the London Mathematical Society and the European Mathematical Society, and I have been a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) since 2017. From 2019 to 2024 I represented the UK on the managing committee of an EU-funded project on Mathematical Models for Interacting Dynamics on Networks (COST Action 18232).

Before arriving in Â鶹´«Ã½ I was at the University of Oxford, most recently as a fellow of St John's College, and before that as an undergraduate and later graduate student at Hertford College and Balliol College, respectively. I completed my Habilitation at TU Dresden, Germany.

Research

My area of research is in an area of Pure Mathematics called operator theory. I am particularly interested in the quantitative asymptotic behaviour of operator semigroups. My work combines elements of functional analysis, harmonic analysis and complex analysis, and it has applications in the study of energy decay of damped waves, in some areas of mathematical control theory and in the theory of iterative methods.

I recently co-organised the conference , which was held in St John's College, Oxford.

My work has received generous financial support from various sources, including the , the , the and the .

I welcome enquiries from prospective Master's students, PhD students and postdocs in my area of expertise.


Teaching

I am currently module leader for:

Publications

  • Articles

    • Paunonen L, Seifert D. . Journal of Differential Equations 2026, 461, 114129.
    • Pritchard AKJ, Seifert D. . Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 2025, 543(1), 128847.
    • Nicaise S, Paunonen L, Seifert D. . Journal of Functional Analysis 2025, 289(2), 110909.
    • Paunonen L, Seifert D, Vanspranghe N. . Studia Mathematica 2025, 280, 193-203.
    • Batty CJK, Seifert D. . Journal of Operator Theory 2024, 91(2), 545-565.
    • Dell'Oro F, Paunonen L, Seifert D. . Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 2023, 518(2), 126706.
    • Chill R, Paunonen L, Seifert D, Stahn R, Tomilov Y. . Analysis & PDE 2023, 16(5), 1089-1132.
    • Batty CJK, Seifert D. . Studia Mathematica 2023, 270, 229-239.
    • Batty CJK, Seifert D. . Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum 2022, 88, 53-84.
    • Chill R, Seifert D, Tomilov Y. . Philosophical Transactions A 2020, 378(2185), 20190614.
    • Ng ACS, Seifert D. . Journal of Functional Analysis 2020, 279(12), 108799.
    • Ng ACS, Seifert D. . Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 2020, 482(2), 123563.
    • Hibble SJ, Chippindale AM, Zbiri M, Rees NH, Keeble DS, Wilhelm H, d'Abrumenil S, Seifert D. . Inorganic Chemistry 2020, 59(16), 11704–11714.
    • Paunonen L, Seifert D. . Systems & Control Letters 2020, 140, 104703.
    • Debruyne G, Seifert D. . Archiv der Mathematik 2019, 113(6), 617–627.
    • Rozendaal J, Seifert D, Stahn R. . Advances in Mathematics 2019, 346, 359-388.
    • Batty CJK, Paunonen L, Seifert D. . SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 2019, 51(2), 808-819.
    • Paunonen L, Seifert D. . Journal of Differential Equations 2019, 266(11), 7152-7172.
    • Debruyne G, Seifert D. . Israel Journal of Mathematics 2019, 233(1), 439-451.
    • Mokhtar-Kharroubi M, Seifert D. . Journal of Functional Analysis 2018, 275(9), 2404-2452.
    • Paunonen L, Seifert D. . Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations 2018, 30(2), 433-444.
    • Badea C, Seifert D. . Pure and Applied Functional Analysis 2017, 2(4), 585-598.
    • Darwin O, Jha A, Roy S, Seifert D, Steele R, Stigant L. . Results in Mathematics 2017, 72(1), 979-990.
    • Paunonen L, Seifert D. . SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 2017, 55(2), 1153-1178.
    • Paunonen L, Seifert D. . Automatica 2017, 79, 127-130.
    • Badea C, Seifert D. . Journal of Approximation Theory 2016, 205, 133-148.
    • Seifert D. . Journal d'Analyse Mathématique 2016, 130(1), 329-354.
    • Chill R, Seifert D. . Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 2016, 48(3), 519-532.
    • Batty CJK, Paunonen L, Seifert D. . Journal of Evolution Equations 2016, 16(3), 649–664.
    • Seifert D. . Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 2015, 143, 3827-3838.
    • Seifert D. . Studia Mathematica 2015, 227, 183-192.
    • Seifert D. . Integral Equations and Operator Theory 2015, 81(2), 255–270.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Paunonen L, Seifert D. . In: MAT-DYN-NET 24 Final Conference of the Action Mathematical Models for Interacting Dynamics on Networks. 2024, Braga, Portugal.
    • Pritchard AKJ, Seifert D. . In: International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications (IWOTA) 2024. 2024, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK: Birkhäuser.
    • Dell'Oro F, Seifert D. . In: Control and Inverse Problems (CIP 2022). 2022, Monastir, Tunisia: Birkhäuser.
    • Paunonen L, Seifert D. . In: 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems. 2016, Minnesota, MN, USA.