Cristóbal Loyola

I am a postdoctoral researcher at UTINAM at Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, supervised by Nabile Boussaïd. In November 2025 I defended my PhD thesis at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions at Sorbonne Université, under the supervision of Camille Laurent.

Previously, I obtained the MSc. in Mathematics and the professional degree of Mathematical Engineer at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Valparaíso, Chile. My Master’s thesis was directed by Nicolás Carreño and Alberto Mercado.

I am interested in the analysis and control of partial differential equations, particularly those of dispersive type. My current research focuses on unique continuation problems for semilinear PDEs-such as wave, Schrödinger, and plate equations—under suitable geometric conditions, as well as their applications to control theory. I am also interested in control problems for PDEs presenting singularities in the main coefficient, as well as in techniques from semiclassical and microlocal analysis.