Björn Engquist (also ''Bjorn Engquist''; born 2 June 1945 in Stockholm) has been a leading contributor in the areas of multiscale modeling and

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, and a productive educator of applied mathematicians.

Life

He received his PhD in numerical analysis from University of Uppsala in 1975, and taught there during the following years while also holding a professorship at the

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. In 2001, he moved to

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

as the Michael Henry Stater University Professor of Mathematics and served as the director of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. He has also been professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm since 1993, and is director of the

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. Engquist currently holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair I at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the

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, after leaving Princeton in 2005.

Research

His research field is computational and applied mathematics and numerical methods for differential equations with applications to multi-scale modeling, electromagnetism, and fluid mechanics. Engquist has authored more than 100 scientific publications and advised 31 PhD students.

Awards

He is a recipient of numerous distinctions and awards: a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (1982 and 1998), European Congress of Mathematics (1992), and European Congress of Fluid Mechanics (1991). He received the first SIAM

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Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (1982), Peter Henrici Prize (2011), and George David Birkhoff Prize (2012). He was selected to the

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in 2011.

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at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm

at the University of Texas at Austin * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Engquist, Bjorn 1945 births Living people Numerical analysts University of Texas at Austin faculty KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Uppsala University alumni Princeton University faculty Computational fluid dynamicists 20th-century Swedish mathematicians 21st-century Swedish mathematicians Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics