Alfio Quarteroni (born 30 May 1952) is an Italian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

. He is Professor Emeritus at the Politecnico of Milan (Italy), and Professor Emeritus at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). He has been the director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne (Switzerland), from 1998 until 2017. He is the founder (and first director) of MOX at Politecnico of Milan (2002) an
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at EPFL, Lausanne (2010). He is co-founder (and President) o
MOXOFF
a spin-off company at Politecnico of Milan (2010). He is member of the Italian Academy of Science (

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei The (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed"), anglicised as the Lincean Academy, is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy. Founded in ...

), the European Academy of Science, the

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(Academy of Europe), the

Lisbon Academy of Sciences The Academy of Sciences of Lisbon () is Portugal's national academy dedicated to the advancement of sciences and learning, with the goal of promoting academic progress and prosperity in Portugal. It is one of Portugal's most prestigious scientif ...

, the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere and the Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology. He is author of 26 books (some of them translated into up to 7 languages), editor of 8 books, author of about 400 papers published in international

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and Conference Proceedings, member of the editorial board of 25 International Journals, and Editor in Chief of two-book series published by Springer. He has been an invited or plenary speaker in more than 300 International Conferences and Academic Departments, in particular he has been plenary speaker at ICM 2006 in Madrid. Among his awards and honors are: the

NASA Group Achievement Award The NASA Group Achievement Award (GAA) is an award given by NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the U ...

for the pioneering work in

Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid dynamics, fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required ...

in 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. He is recipient of the Galileian Chair from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 2001, doctor

Honoris Causa An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad hono ...

in Naval Engineering from

University of Trieste The University of Trieste (, or UniTS, Formerly Regia Università degli Studi or The Royal University of Studies) is a public research university in Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. The university consists of 10 ...

, Italy, 2003, SIAM Fellow (first row) since 2009, IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics) Fellow since 2004, honorary fellow of ECCOMAS since 2015, the Courant Lectures 2010, the

Euler Lecture The Euler Lecture (''Euler-Vorlesung in Sanssouci'') is a mathematics lecture given at an annual event at the University of Potsdam (''Universität Potsdam''). The event, initiated in 1993, is organized by the ''Universität Potsdam, Institut for Ma ...

2017, the Russell Marker Lectures 2018, the Pedro Nunes Lectures 2018, the Euler Medal from Eccomas (2021–22), the Lagrange Prize from ICIAM (2020–23), the Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics in 2024 from the European Academy of Sciences, the Ritz-Galerkin medal from ECCOMAS (2021-24). He has been a member of the IMU Fields Medal Committee for ICM (the International Congress of Mathematicians) 2022. He is the recipient of the ERC Advanced Grant for the project "MATHCARD" in 2008, of two ERC PoC (Proof of Concept) grants: "Math2Ward" in 2012 and "Math4AAARisk" in 2015, and of another ERC Advanced Grant for the project "iHEART" in 2017." His research interests concern Mathematical Modelling, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Scientific Machine Learning, and application to fluid mechanics, environment, geophysics, medicine, and the improvement of sports performance. He has been the director of 60 Phd students.Alfio Quarteroni
at the

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His research Group at EPFL has contributed to the preliminary design of Solar Impulse, the Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and has carried out the mathematical simulation for the optimization of performances of the

Alinghi Alinghi, or Alinghi Red Bull Racing because of the sports marketing branding by Red Bull, is the syndicate set up by Ernesto Bertarelli, racing under the colors of the Société Nautique de Genève, to challenge for the America's Cup, as well ...

yacht, the winner of two editions (2003 and 2007) of the

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. In 2022 he was ranked n.48 in the Top Scientist-Mathematics fro
research.com
n.1 in Italy.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quarteroni, Alfio 1952 births Living people Italian mathematicians Swiss mathematicians Place of birth missing (living people) Members of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences