Jan S. Hesthaven is a Danish mathematician, currently Vice President for Academic Affairs at EPFL (

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). He is Professor of Mathematics, holds the Chair of Computational Mathematics and Simulation Science (MCSS), and was appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs at EPFL (starting in 2021). He is particularly known for contributions to the development, analysis and application of high-order accurate computational methods for time-dependent partial differential equations. He has also contributed substantially to the development of reduced order models and the application of neural networks and machine learning techniques to problems in science and engineering.

Career

Prof. Hesthaven obtained a Master of Science degree in computational physics from the

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(DTU) in 1991. In 1995, he received a Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis from the Institute of Mathematical Modelling ( DTU) and in 2009 he was awarded the degree of Dr.Techn. from DTU for substantial and lasting contributions that has helped to move his research area forward and penetrated into applications. After graduation, he was appointed in 1995 as Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University, then in 1999 as assistant professor and in 2003 he was promoted associate professor of

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with tenure at Brown University where in July 2005 he was promoted to professor of applied mathematics. In 2006, he founded th
Center for Computation and Visualization (CCV)
at Brown University and was its director until 2013. He served from Aug 2010 to June 2013 as founding deputy director of the Institute of Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics

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, an NSF Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. In 2013, he joined EPFL (

) where he was appointed full professor of computational mathematics and simulation science, and shortly later, in February 2014, he founded the new unit of Scientific IT and Application Support (SCITAS) Since 2016 he serves as Editor in Chief of

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Journal of Scientific Computing. In February 2017, he became dean of the School of Basic Sciences (SB). In September 2020, he was appointed as Vice President for Academic Affairs at EPFL for a term starting in 2021. In January 2024, he was elected as the future president of the German

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by the supervisory board. The election was confirmed by the Senate on 19 February 2024. He is expected to take up his new office in the second half of 2024.

Recognition

Brown University gave him their Philip J. Bray Award for Teaching Excellence in 2004. He was elected as a

Fellow in 2014. He was named to the 2023 class of Fellows of the

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, "for contributions to computational methods for PDEs, high-order accurate methods, and the reduced order method".

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hesthaven, Jan S Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Danish mathematicians Danish academic administrators Technical University of Denmark alumni Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics