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Alfio Quarteroni is an Italian mathematician, Professor Emeritus at both Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland). He founded the MOX Laboratory at Politecnico di Milano (2002) directing it until 2022, the founder (2010) and first director (2010-2015) of MATHICSE at EPFL, the co-founder (and President) of MOXOFF. He has been Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the EPFL (1998-2017). He has been full professor at the University of Minnesota (USA) (2000-2002) and full professor and Department Chair at Catholic University of Brescia (Italy) (1986-89).
His research interests span Mathematical Modelling, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Scientific Machine Learning with applications in Fluid Mechanics, Structural Analysis, Geophysics, Biomechanics, Medicine, and the improvement of sports performance.
His awards and honors include: the NASA Group Achievement Award (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, the Euler Lecture 2017, the Euler Medal 2021-22 from ECCOMAS, the Lagrange Prize 2020-23 from ICIAM, the Blaise Pascal Medal 2024 in Mathematics from the European Academy of Sciences, the Ritz-Galerkin Medal 2021-2024 from ECCOMAS, the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize 2025 from SIAM.
He received two ERC advanced grants (2008 and 2017), and two ERC PoC (Proof of Concept) grants (2012 and 2015); recipient of the Galileian Chair from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 2001; doctor Honoris Causa in Naval Engineering from University of Trieste, Italy, 2003; SIAM Fellow since 2009; IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics) Fellow since 2004. He is member of the Italian Academy of Science (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei), the European Academy of Science, the Academia Europaea, and the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, Honorary member of ECMI, and a member of the IMU Fields Medal Committee for ICM (the International Congress of Mathematicians) 2022.
