Enrique Zuazua (Iriondo, second family name) is the Head of the Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics - FAU DCN-AvH (Alexander von Humboldt Professorship) at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU). He is also Distinguished Research Professor and the Director of the Chair of Computational Mathematics of DeustoTech Research Center of the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain and Professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
Biography
Born in Eibar (Gipuzkoa-Basque Country-Spain) in 1961, after finishing his primary education at Ikastola (Basque School) and secondary education at the Eibar La Salle School, he took his baccalaureate at this town's Universidad Laboral de Eibar. In 1984 he graduated in mathematics from the Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV-EHU) before obtaining his PhD from this university in 1987, receiving the Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievements for both. In 1988 he got the PhD degree at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, funded by a doctoral fellowship of the Basque Government and a Research Grant from the Jacques Louis Lions Chair at the Collège de France.
University career
During the 1987–1988 academic year, he was associate professor at UPV-EHU, before becoming an associate professor in Mathematical Analysis at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 1990, he won a Professorship in Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid where he was Head of the Applied Mathematics Section at the Faculty of Chemistry and of the Applied Mathematics Department. In 2001 got an Excellence Professorship in Applied Mathematics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
From 2008 to 2012 he was the Founding Scientific Director Research of the BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, created by the Basque Government , with the aim of promoting research into the most computational, applied and multi-disciplinary aspects of Mathematics, where he led the team on "Partial Differential Equations, Numerics and Control" until September 2015 as a Distinguished Ikerbasque Professor of the Basque Foundation for Science Ikerbasque.
He has also acted as a member of the advisory board for the launching of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT) , a consortium comprising the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Higher Council for Scientific Research, CSIC) and three Madrid Universities: the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).
He has held Visiting Professorships at various overseas institutions, including the Courant Institute, the University of Minnesota and Rice University in the US, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, and at various French Universities including the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université de Paris-Sud, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, Université d'Orléans, Université de Toulouse, Université de Nice and the École Polytechnique (Paris Polytechnic School), where he held the post of Associate Professor for four academic years.
Research
His domains of expertise in Applied Mathematics include Partial Differential Equations, Control Theory and Numerical Analysis. These subjects interrelate with the final to model, analyse, computer simulate, and finally contribute to the control and design of the most diverse natural phenomena and all fields of R + D + i.
Twenty four PhD students got the degree under his advice and they now occupy positions in centres throughout the world: Brazil, Chile, China, Mexico, Romania, Spain, etc. He has developed intensive international work having led co-operation programmes with various Latin American countries, as well as with Portugal, the Maghreb, China and Iran, amongst others.