Alfio Quarteroni#
| Membership Number: | 3752 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://cmcs.epfl.ch/people/quarteroni |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 - present Professor, Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing (CMCS), EPFL, Lausanne
- 1993 - 1997 Scientific Director of CRS4, Cagliari (Italy)
- 1990 - 1992 Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota
- 1989 - present Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Politecnico di Milano (on leave since November 2013)
- 1986 - 1989 Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Catholic University of Brescia, and Chairman, Department of Mathematics
- 1976 - 1986 Researcher at the Istituto di Analisi Numerica of the Italian Research Council, Pavia
- 1975 - 1976 Researcher at Montedison, Donegani Research Institute of Novara
Fields of Scholarship
- Numerical Approximation of Partial Differential Equations
- Applications to: fluid mechanics; aerospace engineering; geophysics; biomechanics; medical systems; wave propagation phenomena
- Mathematical Modelling, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing
- Improvement of sports performance and rehabilitation engineering
Honours and Awards
- Honors:
- 2010 - 2013 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- 2014 - present Head of the Computational and Information Sciences Division of the European Academy of Sciences (EAS)
- 2010 - present Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EAS)
- 2009 - present Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- 2008 - present Paul Harris Fellow
- 2004 - present Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italian National Academy of Sciences)
- 2004 - present Fellow of International Association of Computational Mechanics
- 2003 Laurea Honoris Causa in Naval Engineering, University of Trieste, Italy
- 2001 Recipient of the Galileian Chair, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
- 1995 - present Member of the Lombard Academy of Sciences (Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere)
- 1990 - 1992 Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute
- Awards:
- 2013 Feng Kang Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2013 Premio Ghislieri (Ghislieri Prize)
- 2012 Recipient of an ERC PoC (Proof of Concept) Grant
- 2008 Recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant
- 2006 Premio Scientifico Capo D'Orlando
- 2006 Fanfullino d'oro della Riconoscenza
- 2006 Plenary Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid 2006
- 2004 IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics), Fellow Award
- 2004 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize
- 2003 Premio Agrumello
- 2002 Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing 2002
- 1992 Keynote Speaker, First European Congress of Mathematics, Paris
- 1992 NASA Group Achievement Award for the Pioneering Work in Computational Fluid Dynamics as a Member of the ICASE Numerical Analysis and Algorithms Group
