Alfio Quarteroni (30 May 1952) is an Italian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

. He is Professor of

Numerical Analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation, symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of ...

at the

Politecnico of Milan The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 186 ...

(Italy), since 1989 and has been the director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne (Switzerland), from 1998 until 2017. He is the founder (and first director) of MOX at

(2002) an
MATHICSE
at EPFL, Lausanne (2010). He is co-founder (and President) o
MOXOFF
a spin-off company at

(2010). He is member of the Italian Academy of Science (

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei The Accademia dei Lincei (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed", but anglicised as the Lincean Academy) is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rom ...

), the European Academy of Science, the

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, the

Lisbon Academy of Sciences The Lisbon Academy of Sciences ( pt, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa) is Portugal's national academy dedicated to the advancement of sciences and learning, with the goal of promoting academic progress and prosperity in Portugal. It is one of Po ...

, and the

Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere The Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere is an Italian academy founded by Napoleon in 1797. At the time of the foundation the Istituto was an institution of the Cisalpine Republic and its name was Istituto Nazionale della Repubblica Cis ...

. He is author of 26 books (some of them translated into up to 7 languages), editor of 8 books, author of about 400 papers published in international

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and Conference Proceedings, member of the editorial board of 25 International Journals, and Editor in Chief of two book series published by Springer. He has been an invited or plenary speaker in more than 300 International Conferences and Academic Departments, in particular he has been plenary speaker at ICM 2006 in Madrid. Among his awards and honors are: the

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Group Achievement Award for the pioneering work in

Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate th ...

in 1992, the Fanfullino della Riconoscenza 2006, Città di Lodi, the Premio Capo D'Orlando 2006, the Ghislieri prize, 2013, the International Galileo Galilei prize for Sciences 2015. He is recipient of the Galileian Chair from the

Scuola Normale Superiore The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. It was founded in 1810 wi ...

, Pisa, Italy, 2001, doctor

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in Naval Engineering from

University of Trieste The University of Trieste ( it, Università degli Studi di Trieste, or UniTS) is a public research university in Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. The university consists of 10 departments, boasts a wide and almos ...

, Italy, 2003, SIAM Fellow (first row) since 2009, IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics) Fellow since 2004, honorary fellow of ECCOMAS since 2015, the Courant Lectures 2010, the Euler Lecture 2017, the Russell Marker Lectures 2018, the Pedro Nunes Lectures 2018, the Euler Medal from Eccomas (2021-22), the Lagrange Prize from ICIAM (2020-23). He is a Professor Emeritus at EPFL since 2018. He has been a member of the IMU Fields Medal Committee for ICM (the International Congress of Mathematicians) 2022. He is the recipient of the ERC Advanced Grant for the project "MATHCARD" in 2008, of two ERC PoC (Proof of Concept) grants: "Math2Ward" in 2012 and "Math4AAARisk" in 2015, and of another ERC Advanced Grant for the project "iHEART" in 2017." His research interests concern Mathematical Modelling, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, and application to fluid mechanics, environment, geophysics, medicine, and the improvement of sports performance. He has been the director of 60 Phd students.Alfio Quarteroni
at the

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His research Group at EPFL has contributed to the preliminary design of

Solar Impulse Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and also the name of the project's two operational aircraft. The privately financed project is led by Swiss engineer and businessman André Borschberg and Swiss p ...

, the Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and has carried out the mathematical simulation for the optimization of performances of the

Alinghi Alinghi, or Alinghi Red Bull Racing because of the sports marketing branding by Red Bull, is the syndicate set up by Ernesto Bertarelli, racing under the colors of the Société Nautique de Genève, to challenge for the America's Cup, as well as ...

yacht, the winner of two editions (2003 and 2007) of the

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. In 2022 he was ranked n.48 in the Top Scientist-Mathematics fro
research.com
n.1 in Italy.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quarteroni, Alfio 1952 births Living people Italian mathematicians Swiss mathematicians Place of birth missing (living people) Members of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences