Juan Patiño-Echeverría
Auckland, New Zealand
Kia ora — welcome
I’m Juan Patiño-Echeverría, a mathematician and Professional Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland.
My research is in dynamical systems: I study how deterministic equations can produce behaviour that looks genuinely unpredictable, and how we can compute the geometric mechanisms behind that transition to chaos.
Selected highlights
- Now Teaching Differential Equations (MATHS260) and Methods in Applied Mathematics (MATHS362).
- 2026 Global bifurcation structure of a four-dimensional Lorenz-like system with a wild chaotic attractor — see Projects →
- 2026 PhD thesis: Transitions to Wild Chaos in a Four-Dimensional Lorenz-like System — supervised by Professors Hinke Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf.
- 2023–25 Best student talk and best poster prizes at SIAM, ANZIAM, NZMS and joint meetings — see About →
Outside maths
I like writing small programs to automate boring tasks, and I maintain ambitious reading lists I fully intend to finish one day. I also enjoy playing sports and the drums.
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