Enrique Zuazua
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Enrique Zuazua Iriondo http://www.bcamath.org/zuazua is a researcher at the Ikerbasque
Basque Foundation for Science, Director of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
http://www.bcamath.org and Professor in leave of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid UAM (Autonomous University of Madrid).
(Gipuzkoa) in 1961. After finishing his primary education at Ikastola (Basque School) and secondary education at the Eibar
La Salle School, he took his baccalaureate at this town's Technical University. In 1984 he graduated in Mathematics from the Universidad del Pais Vasco (University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU) before obtaining his PhD from this University in 1987. In both cases he received the Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement. In 1988 he signed up for a PhD at the Pierre et Marie Curie University where his studies were financed thanks to a fellowship from the Basque Government
and a Research Grant from the Jacques Louis Lions Chair at the Collège de France
.
His domains of expertise in Applied Mathematics include Partial Differential Equations, Control Theory and Numerical Analysis. These subjects interrelate and their final aim is to model, analyse, computer simulate, and finally contribute to the control and design of the most diverse natural phenomena and all fields of R + D + i.
. He also directs the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
, which was recently created by the Basque Government
http://www.euskadi.net, with the aim of promoting research into the most computational, applied and multi-disciplinary aspects of Mathematics. He has also acted as a member of the advisory board for the recently created Institute for Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT) http://www.icamt.es which is formed by a consortium comprising the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Higher Council for Scientific Research, CSIC) http://www.csic.es and three Madrid Universities: the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
(UC3M) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).
He has held Visiting Professorships at various overseas bodies, including the Courant Institute New York , the Minnesota and Rice Universities in the USA, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Isaac Newton Institute
, Cambridge, and at various French Universities including the Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris-Sud, Versailles, Orleans, Toulouse, Nice and the École Polytechnique de Paris (Paris Polytechnic School), where he held the post of Associate Professor for four academic years.
He has been guest speaker at over one hundred International Conferences worldwide, with highlights including the Second European Congress of Mathematics, Budapest, 1996, ECCOMAS 2004 in Jyväskylä
(Finland) the SMAI2005 Congress in Evian (France), FoCM2005 in Santander, ENUMATH2005 in Santiago de Compostela, the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) Madrid, 2006 and the EQUADIFF 2007 in Vienna (Austria). He has also given numerous monographic courses in research at various Centres, both in Spain and overseas. He has sat on and is still an active member of the Scientific Committee of various international events, including the International Programming Committee of ICM2006.
He has also been the Principal Investigator for National Plan projects and since 1990 the co-ordinator for European and NATO project networks and research co-ordinator of the i-Math CONSOLIDER Mathematics Project under the CONSOLIDER- Engineering 2010 Programme (2007-2011 €7,500,000) and of the Comunidad de Madrid’s SIMUMAT project (2006-2009, €800,000). He is also currently the Research co-ordinator of the Comunidad de Madrid’s SIMUMAT project (2006–2009, €800,000). He also works with AIRBUS and INTA http://www.inta.es on the PROFIT Programme DOMINO project, "Development of applications for Optimal Aeronautical Design using Innovative Techniques.”
He is Editor in Chief of the Journal “ESAIM:COCV", Corresponding Editor for the "SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization," and member of the Editorial Board for other journals including "Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées", "Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences," "Numerische Mathematik," "Systems and Control Letters," "Asymptotic Analysis," "Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications," "Mathematica," and "Collectanea Mathematica."
He has managed the National Plan Mathematics Programme (2001–2004) and directed and participated in various international panels belonging of the French CNRS, ANR
and INRIA and the German DFG amongst other agencies. He chairs over the European Research Council’s http://www.erc.edu Panel A "Advanced Grants," in Mathematics, and the CIMPA’s (Centre International de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquées) http://www.cimpa-icpam.org Scientific Council in Nice. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of various Institutes such as the CIM (International Center for Mathematics) at Coimbra http://www.cim.pt, CERFACS in Toulouse http://www.cerfacs.fr, the Pedro Pascual de Benasque Science Center http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/ and the UNESCO "Mathematics and Development," Chair co-ordinated by M.Jaoua.
He has also written several popular science works, for which he has twice been awarded the [Sociedad Española de Matematica Applicada] (SEMA Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics) http://www.sema.org.es/ Prize for Popularising Mathematics. His articles in this field have been published in various magazines, including ARBOR
, CIC-Network, SIGMA
, DIVULGAMAT, La Gaceta de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española (RSME The Royal Society of Spanish Mathematics) http://www.rsme.es and Transatlántica de Educación. He also founded the blog "Matemáticas y sus Fronteras" (Mathematics and its boundaries) belonging to NotiWeb Madrid+d. He is an active member of RSME and SEMA having sat on several of their committees and given his current membership of the Scientific Committee of the SEMA bulletin.
With over 180 articles published in Journals and 70 at international conferences, his work has had significant impact. He was recognised as a "highly cited researcher
," by the ISI Institute (Thompson) in 2004. He received the 2006 Euskadi Prize for Science and Technology and has been nominated as a numerary of the "Jakiunde," Basque Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities. He is also member of the Basque Agency for Innovation: Innobasque's Technology Innovation Management Committee. In 2007 he was awarded the Julio Rey Pastor National Prize for "Mathematics, Information and Communications Technology," the highest national award in these disciplines. He received his award from His Majesty, the King on 15 January 2008 together with the other 2007 prize-winners (Ignacio Cirac Saturain, Carlos Duarte Quesada, Luis A. Oro Giral and Daniel Ramón Vidal).
Ikerbasque
Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, is a foundation promoted by the Basque Government through its Department of Education, Universities and Research in 2007....
Basque Foundation for Science, Director of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
The Basque Center of Applied Mathematics of the Basque Science and Technology net. BCAM headquarters is in the Bizkaia Technology Park , Building 500, in Derio, in the Greater Bilbao, the capital of the province of Biscay in the Basque Country of northern Spain.-Background:In January 2007, the...
http://www.bcamath.org and Professor in leave of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid UAM (Autonomous University of Madrid).
Biography
He was born in EibarÉibar
Eibar is a city and municipality within the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country of Spain. The city was chartered by Alfonso XI of Castile in 1346...
(Gipuzkoa) in 1961. After finishing his primary education at Ikastola (Basque School) and secondary education at the Eibar
Éibar
Eibar is a city and municipality within the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country of Spain. The city was chartered by Alfonso XI of Castile in 1346...
La Salle School, he took his baccalaureate at this town's Technical University. In 1984 he graduated in Mathematics from the Universidad del Pais Vasco (University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU) before obtaining his PhD from this University in 1987. In both cases he received the Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement. In 1988 he signed up for a PhD at the Pierre et Marie Curie University where his studies were financed thanks to a fellowship from the Basque Government
Basque Government
The Basque Government is the governing body of the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain. The head of this government is the lehendakari or Basque president that is appointed by the Basque Parliament every four years...
and a Research Grant from the Jacques Louis Lions Chair at the Collège de France
Collège de France
The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...
.
His domains of expertise in Applied Mathematics include Partial Differential Equations, Control Theory and Numerical Analysis. These subjects interrelate and their final aim is to model, analyse, computer simulate, and finally contribute to the control and design of the most diverse natural phenomena and all fields of R + D + i.
University career
During the 1987–1988 academic year, he was Associate Professor at UPV-EHU, before becoming Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Analysis at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Autonomous University of Madrid), a post which he held for one and a half years. In 1990 he won a Professorship in Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Complutense University, Madrid) where he was Head of the Applied Mathematics Section and of the Applied Mathematics Department. In 2001 he returned to the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where he held a Professorship in Applied Mathematics. His current post is at IkerbasqueIkerbasque
Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, is a foundation promoted by the Basque Government through its Department of Education, Universities and Research in 2007....
. He also directs the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
The Basque Center of Applied Mathematics of the Basque Science and Technology net. BCAM headquarters is in the Bizkaia Technology Park , Building 500, in Derio, in the Greater Bilbao, the capital of the province of Biscay in the Basque Country of northern Spain.-Background:In January 2007, the...
, which was recently created by the Basque Government
Basque Government
The Basque Government is the governing body of the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain. The head of this government is the lehendakari or Basque president that is appointed by the Basque Parliament every four years...
http://www.euskadi.net, with the aim of promoting research into the most computational, applied and multi-disciplinary aspects of Mathematics. He has also acted as a member of the advisory board for the recently created Institute for Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT) http://www.icamt.es which is formed by a consortium comprising the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Higher Council for Scientific Research, CSIC) http://www.csic.es and three Madrid Universities: the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is a private university in Madrid, Spain. Its 27 campuses are located in the municipalities of Leganés, Colmenarejo and Getafe. It is a mediocre institution well-known for the quality of its teaching and academic research, its international orientation and its...
(UC3M) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).
He has held Visiting Professorships at various overseas bodies, including the Courant Institute New York , the Minnesota and Rice Universities in the USA, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Isaac Newton Institute
Isaac Newton Institute
The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is an international research institute for mathematics and theoretical physics. Part of the University of Cambridge, it is named after one of the university's most illustrious figures, the mathematician and natural philosopher Sir Isaac Newton....
, Cambridge, and at various French Universities including the Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris-Sud, Versailles, Orleans, Toulouse, Nice and the École Polytechnique de Paris (Paris Polytechnic School), where he held the post of Associate Professor for four academic years.
Research
He has directed nineteen PhD Theses and his former students now occupy positions in centres throughout the world: Brazil, Chile, China, Mexico, Romania, etc. He has developed intensive international work having led co-operation programmes with various Latin American countries, as well as with Portugal, the Maghreb, China and Iran, amongst others.He has been guest speaker at over one hundred International Conferences worldwide, with highlights including the Second European Congress of Mathematics, Budapest, 1996, ECCOMAS 2004 in Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä is the capital of Central Finland and the largest city on the Finnish Lakeland, north-east of Tampere and north of Helsinki, on northern coast of lake Päijänne. The city has been continuously one of the most rapidly growing cities in Finland since World War II. The city is surrounded...
(Finland) the SMAI2005 Congress in Evian (France), FoCM2005 in Santander, ENUMATH2005 in Santiago de Compostela, the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) Madrid, 2006 and the EQUADIFF 2007 in Vienna (Austria). He has also given numerous monographic courses in research at various Centres, both in Spain and overseas. He has sat on and is still an active member of the Scientific Committee of various international events, including the International Programming Committee of ICM2006.
He has also been the Principal Investigator for National Plan projects and since 1990 the co-ordinator for European and NATO project networks and research co-ordinator of the i-Math CONSOLIDER Mathematics Project under the CONSOLIDER- Engineering 2010 Programme (2007-2011 €7,500,000) and of the Comunidad de Madrid’s SIMUMAT project (2006-2009, €800,000). He is also currently the Research co-ordinator of the Comunidad de Madrid’s SIMUMAT project (2006–2009, €800,000). He also works with AIRBUS and INTA http://www.inta.es on the PROFIT Programme DOMINO project, "Development of applications for Optimal Aeronautical Design using Innovative Techniques.”
He is Editor in Chief of the Journal “ESAIM:COCV", Corresponding Editor for the "SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization," and member of the Editorial Board for other journals including "Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées", "Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences," "Numerische Mathematik," "Systems and Control Letters," "Asymptotic Analysis," "Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications," "Mathematica," and "Collectanea Mathematica."
He has managed the National Plan Mathematics Programme (2001–2004) and directed and participated in various international panels belonging of the French CNRS, ANR
ANR
ANR is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:* Absolute neighborhood retract, a type of topological space * IATA code for Antwerp International Airport...
and INRIA and the German DFG amongst other agencies. He chairs over the European Research Council’s http://www.erc.edu Panel A "Advanced Grants," in Mathematics, and the CIMPA’s (Centre International de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquées) http://www.cimpa-icpam.org Scientific Council in Nice. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of various Institutes such as the CIM (International Center for Mathematics) at Coimbra http://www.cim.pt, CERFACS in Toulouse http://www.cerfacs.fr, the Pedro Pascual de Benasque Science Center http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/ and the UNESCO "Mathematics and Development," Chair co-ordinated by M.Jaoua.
He has also written several popular science works, for which he has twice been awarded the [Sociedad Española de Matematica Applicada] (SEMA Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics) http://www.sema.org.es/ Prize for Popularising Mathematics. His articles in this field have been published in various magazines, including ARBOR
Arbor
Arbor or arbour may refer to:*Arbor , a landscape structure*Arbor or mandrel*Arbor, California*Arbor, a counterweight-carrying device found in theater fly systems...
, CIC-Network, SIGMA
Sigma
Sigma is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, and carries the 'S' sound. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 200. When used at the end of a word, and the word is not all upper case, the final form is used, e.g...
, DIVULGAMAT, La Gaceta de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española (RSME The Royal Society of Spanish Mathematics) http://www.rsme.es and Transatlántica de Educación. He also founded the blog "Matemáticas y sus Fronteras" (Mathematics and its boundaries) belonging to NotiWeb Madrid+d. He is an active member of RSME and SEMA having sat on several of their committees and given his current membership of the Scientific Committee of the SEMA bulletin.
With over 180 articles published in Journals and 70 at international conferences, his work has had significant impact. He was recognised as a "highly cited researcher
ISI highly cited researcher
ISI Highly Cited is a database of "highly cited researchers"—scientific researchers whose publications are most often cited in academic journals over the past decade, published by the Institute for Scientific Information...
," by the ISI Institute (Thompson) in 2004. He received the 2006 Euskadi Prize for Science and Technology and has been nominated as a numerary of the "Jakiunde," Basque Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities. He is also member of the Basque Agency for Innovation: Innobasque's Technology Innovation Management Committee. In 2007 he was awarded the Julio Rey Pastor National Prize for "Mathematics, Information and Communications Technology," the highest national award in these disciplines. He received his award from His Majesty, the King on 15 January 2008 together with the other 2007 prize-winners (Ignacio Cirac Saturain, Carlos Duarte Quesada, Luis A. Oro Giral and Daniel Ramón Vidal).
External links
- http://www.bcamath.org/zuazua Website of Enrique Zuazua
- http://www.bcamath.org Website of BCAM — Basque Center for Applied Mathematics