Raphaèle Herbin is a French applied mathematician; she is known for her work on the

finite volume method The finite volume method (FVM) is a method for representing and evaluating partial differential equations in the form of algebraic equations. In the finite volume method, volume integrals in a partial differential equation that contain a divergen ...

. Herbin has been a professor at

Aix-Marseille University Aix-Marseille University (AMU; ; formally incorporated as ) is a Public university, public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, List of rulers of Provence, Count of ...

since 1995, and directs the Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille. She earned her doctorate in 1986 at

Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (, UCBL) is one of the three public universities of Lyon, France. It is named after the French physiologist Claude Bernard and specialises in science and technology, medicine, and sports science. It was establis ...

, with the dissertation ''Approximation numérique d'inéquations variationnelles non linéaires par des méthodes de continuation'' supervised by Francis Conrad. Herbin is a co-author of the books ''Mesure, intégration, probabilités'' (Ellipses, 2013) and ''The gradient discretisation method'' (Springer, 2018). In 2017 the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

gave Herbin their CNRS medal of innovation.

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