CURRENT POSITIONS
Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at
the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne (Switzerland),
since 1998.
Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy),
since 1989.
Scientific Director of MOX, Politecnico di Milano, since 2002.
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.
PUBLICATIONS
Author of 12 books (10 published by Springer, 1 by Oxford University
Press, 1 by Esculapio)
Editor of 3 books (one published by Springer, 1 by North-Holland
Elsevier, 1 by the American Mathematical Society)
Author of more than 150 papers published in international Scientific
Journals and Conference Proceedings.
Invited speaker in more than 200 International Conferences and
Academic Departments.
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), 1995
Chairman of the Mathematics and Computer Science RTN evaluation
panel of E.U., 1999.
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).
IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics) Fellow
Award, 2004.
Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (the Italian Academy
of Sciences), 2004.
The Group of Prof. Alfio Quarteroni has carried out the mathematical
simulation for the optimisation of performances of the Alinghi
yacht, winner of the last America’s Cup.
