Valeria Simoncini (born 1966) is an Italian researcher in

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who works as a professor in the mathematics department at the

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. Her research involves the computational solution of equations involving large

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, and their applications in scientific computing. She is the chair of the

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Activity Group on Linear Algebra.

Education and career

Simoncini earned a degree from the University of Bologna in 1989, became a

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at the

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from 1991 to 1993, and completed her PhD at the

University of Padua The University of Padua (, UNIPD) is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy. It was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from the University of Bologna, who previously settled in Vicenza; thus, it is the second-oldest ...

in 1994. After working at CNR from 1995 to 2000, she returned to Bologna as an associate professor in 2000, and was promoted to full professor in 2010.

Book

With Antonio Navarra, she is the author of the book ''A Guide to Empirical Orthogonal Functions for Climate Data Analysis'' (Springer, 2010).

Recognition

Simoncini was a second-place winner of the

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in 1997. In 2014 she was elected as a

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of the

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"for contributions to

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". She was named to the 2021 class of fellows of the

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"for contributions to computational mathematics, in particular to numerical linear algebra". In 2023, she was elected to serve on the

Council.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Simoncini, Valeria 1966 births Living people Italian mathematicians Italian women mathematicians University of Bologna alumni University of Padua alumni Academic staff of the University of Bologna Numerical analysts Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellows of the American Mathematical Society