Alfio Quarteroni

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Head of the Scientific Research Division of CRS4, Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Sardinia
 Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
 Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Catholic University of Brescia, and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics
 Researcher at the Istituto di Analisi Numerica of the C.N.R. (Italian Research Council) of Pavia (Italy)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Author of 25 books (18 published by Springer, 1 by Oxford University Press, 1 by Cambridge University Press)
 Editor of 12 books (7 published by Springer, 1 by North-Holland Elsevier, 1 by the American Mathematical Society, 3 by De Gruyter)
 Author of more than 300 papers published in international journals and 100 articles in Conference Proceedings

AWARDS/HONORS

NASA Group Achievement Award for the pioneering work in Computational Fluid Dynamics as a member of the ICASE numerical analysis and algorithms group, 1992 
 Member of the Lombard Academy of Science (Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere)
 Chairman of the Mathematics and Computer Science RTN evaluation panel of the E.U., 1999
 Co-chairman (with P.L.Lions) of the AMIF research programme of the European Science Foundation, 1996-2001
 Recipient of the Galileian Chair, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 2001
 Laurea Honoris Causa in Naval Engineering at University of Trieste, Italy, October 2003
 Recipient of the SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), Outstanding Paper Prize 2004 (Paper in collaboration with A. Veneziani and P. Zunino)
 Member of Accademia dei Lincei (Italian Academy of Sciences) since 2004
 Fellow of International Association of Computational Mechanics, 2004
 Fanfullino della Riconoscenza 2006, Citta' di Lodi
 Plenary Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid 2006
 Recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant, 2008
 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), since 2008
 Member of the European Academy of Sciences, since 2010
 Member of Academia Europaea, since 2014
 Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, since 2018

Mission

Professor of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the School of Mathematics of EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (Switzerland), from 1998 to 2017
 Founder and Director of the Mathematics Institute of Computational Science and Engineering (MATHICSE) at EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland), from 2010 to 2015
 Director of the Center for Advanced Modeling Science (CADMOS)
 Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), from 1989 to date
 Founder and Scientific Director of MOX, Politecnico di Milano, from 2002 to date

Biography

Of italian nationality, Alfio Quarteroni was born on May 30th 1952. He pursued his studies in mathematics at University of Pavia and at University of Paris VI. In 1986 he was nominated full professor at Catholic University of Brescia, later professor in mathematics at University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and professor in numerical analysis at Politecnico di Milano.
 He is designated full professor in 1997 and enters into service with EPFL in 1998.
 At EPFL, he teaches numerical analysis to engineers and mathematicians and holds specialized courses about mathematical modelling and scientific computing for master and PhD students.
 He had been scientific director of CRS4, plenary speaker of more than two hundred international conferences; he is member of the European Academy of Sciences, the Italian Academy of Sciences, the Lombard Academy of Science and Letters. He is Editor in Chief of two book series (MS&A and Unitext) by Springer, associate editor of 25 international journals. He has been plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians ICM2006. He had been responsible of several European research networks. His team has carried out the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic simulations for the optimization of Alinghi, the Swiss sailing yacht that has won two editions of the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007.