Franco Brezzi#
| Membership Number: | 4354 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://arturo.imati.cnr.it/brezzi |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - 2015 Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS) of Pavia
- 1977 - 2006 Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the University of Pavia
- 1975 - 1977 Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the Polytechnic of Torino
- 1969 - 1975 Assistant Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Pavia
- 2013 - present Vice-President of EMS (European Mathematical Society )
- 2006 - 2012 President of U.M.I. (Unione Matematica Italiana) for two terms
- 2002 - 2012 Director of "Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche" of Italian CNR
- 2015 Associate Researcher at IMATI-CNR, Pavia
Fields of Scholarship
- Boundary value problems for P.D.E. (existence, uniqueness, regularity, etc.)
- Numerical solution of linear elliptic problems with irregular data
- Basic properties of finite element methods (in particular, mixed, hybrid, etc.)
- Behavior of finite dimensional discretizations of bifurcation problems
- Finite element analysis of plates and shells
- Stabilization techniques for finite element formulations
- Residual-free bubbles and subgrid-scale simulations
- Discontinuous Galerkin finite elements
- Mimetic finite differences
- Virtual element methods
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Ritz-Galerkin Medalby ECCOMAS
- 2015 SIAM Fellow
- 2014 Leonhard Euler Medal by ECCOMAS
- 2014 Invited Plenary Lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians
- 2012 Blaise Pascal Medal for Mathematics by European Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Gili-Agostinelli Award by Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
- 2010 R.E. Marker Lecturer, State College (USA)
- 2009 SIAM Von Neumann Award
- 2009 - present Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Gauss-Newton Medal by IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics)
- 2003 ISI Highly cited Researcher in Mathematics
- 2002 Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics
- 2001 -present Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 2000 T.H.H Pian Medal al ICES'2K
- 1991-present Member of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere
