Paola Francesca Antonietti (born 1980) is an Italian applied mathematician and

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

whose research concerns

numerical methods for partial differential equations Numerical methods for partial differential equations is the branch of numerical analysis that studies the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). In principle, specialized methods for hyperbolic, parabolic or elliptic partia ...

, and particularly

domain decomposition methods In mathematics, numerical analysis, and numerical partial differential equations, domain decomposition methods solve a boundary value problem by splitting it into smaller boundary value problems on subdomains and iterating to coordinate the soluti ...

, with applications in

scientific computing Computational science, also known as scientific computing or scientific computation (SC), is a field in mathematics that uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems. It is an area of science that spans many disc ...

and engineering such as simulating the propagation of

seismic wave A seismic wave is a wave of acoustic energy that travels through the Earth. It can result from an earthquake, volcanic eruption, magma movement, a large landslide, and a large man-made explosion that produces low-frequency acoustic energy. S ...

s. She is Professor of Numerical Analysis at the

Polytechnic University 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 ...

Education and career

Antonietti was born in 1980 in Milan. She earned a laurea

cum laude Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sou ...

from the

University of Pavia The University of Pavia ( it, Università degli Studi di Pavia, UNIPV or ''Università di Pavia''; la, Alma Ticinensis Universitas) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one ...

in 2003, and continued there for a Ph.D. in 2007. Her dissertation, ''Domain decomposition, spectral correctness and numerical testing of discontinuous Galerkin methods'', was jointly supervised by

Annalisa Buffa Annalisa Buffa (born 14 February 1973) is an Italian mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis and partial differential equations (PDE). She is a professor of mathematics at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and holds th ...

and Ilaria Perugia, and included time as a visiting student at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. After postdoctoral research at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

, she returned to Italy as a tenure-track assistant professor in the

in 2008. She was given tenure as an associate professor in 2015, promoted to full professor in 2019, and was appointed head of the Laboratory of Modeling and Scientific Computing (MOX) by Irene Sabadini in 2023.

Recognition

As a student, Antonietti won the S. Cinquini and M. Cinquini Cibrario Prize of the University of Pavia. In 2008, the Italian Society for Industrial Applications of Mathematics (SIMAI) gave her their F. Saleri prize, and she was the winner of the 2015 SIMAI prize. In 2020, the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) gave her their Jacques-Louis Lions award.

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