Tahar Z. Boulmezaoud is currently a visiting scholar at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), at University of Victoria (UVIC) and at University of British Columbia (UBC), in Canada. He is also a permanent associate professor of mathematics at University of Versailles SQY and University Paris-Saclay in France. His areas of research are partial differential equations, numerical

analysis, Optimization and mathematical physics.

His early work focused on the analysis of magnetic-hydrostatic equilibria and Beltrami fields in astrophysics, especially in solar physics, and in fusion. He also works on the analysis of partial differential equations in unbounded regions of space and on optimization. In particular, he introduced two new methods for solving PDEs in such bounded domains, including the inverse finite element method. He also has results on

functional analysis and weighted spaces, and in fluid

and solid mechanics.

Tahar has been invited in many universities (Algeria, Canada, Chile, France, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Spain, Tunisia, ...). He has given many post-graduate courses in Algeria, notably at the University of Sciences and Technology Houari-Boumédiène (USTHB, Algiers),

and in Ecole Normale Supérieure of Kouba (Algiers). He has also supervised several Phd and master's theses in France and in Algeria. He has been invited to give a talk

at numerous universities and scientific events.

Previously, Tahar Zamene obtained a baccalaureat Techniques Mathématiques in 1990 in Mila (ranked 1st in Algeria in this branch) before moving to Strasbourg in France, then to Paris where he obtained at the same time an engineering diploma and a master of mathematics in 1995. He then obtained a PhD in mathematics from the Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne University in January 1999. He also holds a Habilitation to direct research obtained in 2007.

Tahar Zamene has also taught mathematics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris), at the University of Pau, at the Ecole Centrale Paris and at the ENSAE Paris. He has been a member of the jury of the Agrégation externe of mathematics and of the entrance exams to the French Grandes Ecoles.