Raphaèle Herbin is a French applied mathematician; she is known for her work on the
finite volume method
The finite volume method (FVM) is a method for representing and evaluating partial differential equations in the form of algebraic equations.
In the finite volume method, volume integrals in a partial differential equation that contain a divergenc ...
.
Herbin has been a professor at
Aix-Marseille University
Aix-Marseille University (AMU; french: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as ''Université d'Aix-Marseille'') is a public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II o ...
since 1995, and directs the Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille. She earned her doctorate in 1986 at
Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (french: link=no, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, UCBL) is one of the three public universities of Lyon, France. It is named after the French physiologist Claude Bernard and specialises in science and technolo ...
, with the dissertation ''Approximation numérique d'inéquations variationnelles non linéaires par des méthodes de continuation'' supervised by Francis Conrad.
Herbin is a co-author of the books ''Mesure, intégration, probabilités'' (Ellipses, 2013) and ''The
gradient discretisation method'' (Springer, 2018).
In 2017 the
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
gave Herbin their CNRS medal of innovation.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French mathematicians
French women mathematicians