Jan S. Hesthaven#
| Membership Number: | 6447 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/mcss/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8074-1586 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jshesthaven/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2013 Professor of Mathematics, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2013 Chair of Computational Mathematics and Simulation Science (MCSS), EPFL, Switzerland
- 2007 - 2021 Professor (honorary), Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- 2017 - 2020 Dean, School of Basic Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2010 - 2013 Founding deputy director, The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University, USA
- 2005 - 2013 Professor of Applied Mathematics, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA
- 2003 - 2005 Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics with tenure, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA
- 1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA
- 1995 - 1999 Visiting Assistant Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Spectral methods
- Numerical methods for conservation laws
- Absorbing boundary conditions
- Computational wave problems
- Computational uncertainty quantification
- Numerical methods for time-dependent partial differential equations
- Reduced order modeling
- High-order accurate methods
- Scientific machine learning
- Multi-scale methods
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2022 ICM Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2022 AMS Fellow, American Mathematical Society, Providence, USA
- 2014 SIAM Fellow, Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, USA
- 2012 Gutenberg Chair, Gutenberg Foundation, Strasbourg, France, (declined)
- 2005 Otto Mønsted Visiting Professor, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- 2004 Philip J. Bray Award for Teaching Excellence in the Physical Sciences for 2004-2005, Brown University, USA
- 2002 NSF CAREER Award, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation, USA
- 2001 Manning Assistant Professorship, Brown University, USA
- 2000 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA
- 1995 NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Advanced Scientific Computing, National Science Foundation, USA
