Plenary Speakers

Founder and leader of the research group “Mathematical and Theoretical Biology” (MTB) at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM). She holds a double European Ph.D. degree in Life Sciences, from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and in Population Biology, from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. From 2019 to 2020 she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Laboratory of Mathematical and Computational Biology, Department of Mathematics at University of Trento, Italy. Her research interests are focused on public health epidemiology with emphasis on Epidemiological dynamics of multi-strain infectious diseases; Interplay between pathogen serotypes and cross-immunity, Epidemiological dynamics of vaccine preventable diseases, Complex dynamics, empirical data analysis and public health intervention measures.

Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy and Visiting Professor of  Nonlinear Systems and Control at the University of Bristol, U.K. He currently serves as Deputy pro-Vice Chancellor for Internationalization at the University of Naples and coordinates the research area on Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, the new School of Advanced Studies located in Naples. In 2007 he was bestowed the title of Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for scientific merits from the President of Italy. In January 2012 he was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the analysis, control and applications of nonlinear systems and complex networks. His research interests include the analysis, synchronization and control of complex network systems; piecewise-smooth dynamical systems; nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear control with applications to engineering and computational biology. 

Senior researcher at the CNR's Institute for Complex Systems in Florence, Italy. He is currently an honorary member of the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity, and became a member of the Academia Europaea in 2016. He is guest professor at the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an and the East China Normal University in Shanghai. His research interests include the theoretical modeling of pattern formation and competition in nonlinear optics, fluid dynamics and excitable media, the study of chaos recognition, control and synchronization, and the study of synchronization in spatially extended systems and in complex networks.

Associate Chair and Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Recipient of the AMS Nicholas Fofonoff Award, 2011 and the NSF Student and Young Scientist Award Grant, 2001 and the Postdoctoral Scholar Award at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 2000. Her research interests include Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Transport and Mixing in the Ocean, Bio-Physical Interactions in the Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Modeling. She is particularly interested in linking physical processes to climate variability, biodiversity and evolution by combining basic and applied sciences with innovative modeling tools.

The Head of the Engineering, ICT, Energy and Transport Department of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. The Department includes 20 research institutes and about 1000 researchers, covering Civil and Industrial Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics, Systems and Communication Engineering, and Applied Mathematics. He has been researcher at the IBM European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing (IBM-ECSEC), and successively joined the National Towing Tank (INSEAN), being the INSEAN Director between 2010 and 2017. During his research activity he has been Principal Investigator of EDA (European Defense Agency) and ONR (Office of Naval Research, US Navy) projects. He is the Italian national representative in the JPI Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans, the European platform for the harmonization of marine and maritime national research programs. He is also the coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the National Technology Cluster of the Blue Growth, a national alliance promoted by the government among more than 90 partners, from industry, academia and regions.

Full Professor in the Chemistry Department of the Université libre de Bruxelles. After a PhD in 1993 on modelling reaction-diffusion patterns, she went as a postdoc to Stanford University (1993-1994) to perform research on simulations of transport and convective instabilities in porous media. Back to Brussels, she has developed a research group in which both experimental and theoretical work is performed in the field of chemohydrodynamics. Her objectives are to analyze and characterize the spatio-temporal dynamics and patterns that can develop when chemical reactions and hydrodynamic instabilities interplay, with applications in engineering, nonlinear science and environmental issues. She currently heads the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Research Unit and is co-director of the "Service de Chimie Physique and Biologie Théorique" at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics and in the School of Medicine, pioneered the approach known as “equation-free computation.”  He is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a Packard Fellow, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He holds the Colburn, the Wilhelm, and the Computing in Chemical Engineering awards of the AIChE; the Crawford Prize and the W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize of SIAM; and a Senior Humboldt prize. He has been the Gutzwiller Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden and a Rothschild Distinguished Visitor at the Newton Institute at Cambridge University, and is currently a senior Hans Fischer Fellow at IAS-TUM in Munich and an Einstein Visiting Fellow at FU/Zuse Institut Berlin. In 2015, he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens.

Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sussex, UK. Yuliya started her scientific career with undergraduate studies in mathematics in Dnipro National University in Ukraine, followed by one year as an exchange student in Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus, Germany. Her PhD was in the area of analysis and PDS for hydrodynamic problems, as well as delay equations at University of Surrey, followed by a PostDoc at the University of Bristol, UK on the modelling engineering experiments. In 2007 she was awarded an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship on time-delayed control of spatially extended systems. In 2010 she organised Dynamics Days Europe in Bristol. In 2015, with several colleagues, she ran a month-long programme in Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada. Her main research interests are in the area of delay equations and dynamics of coupled systems, with applications in engineering, biology and medicine, synchronisation and collective dynamics in systems with distributed delay coupling, analysis of stochastic and time-delayed effects in immunological, ecological and neural models, and modelling effects of awareness on the spread of epidemics.

The Mehrabian Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. Linda Petzold is member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of USA and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Prof. Petzold has been awarded the Sidney Fernbach Award, IEEE Computer Society; ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering, SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession, AWM/SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer, Dahlquist Prize, Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. Her research is focused on modeling, analysis, simulation and software, applied to multiscale, networked systems in biology, materials and social networks. 

Full Professor in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (SSD MAT/08, A1/05) at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) Trieste, in the Department of Matheamatics Trieste. Prof. Rozza is the coordinator of the area of Mathematics Area at SISSA, and Director Delegate for Valorisation of Knowledge, Innovation, Technology Transfer and Industrial Cooperation. He is a research affiliate at MIT since 2008. Prof. Rozza is the recipient of the 2014 ECCOMAS young investigator Jacques Louis Lions Award in Computational Mathematics for researcher under 40 years old. He has been the Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, and the SIAM/ASA JUQ, Journal of Uncertainty Quantification. His research interest include Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Reduced Order Modelling and Methods, Efficient Reduced-Basis Methods for parametrized PDEs and a posteriori error estimation, Computational Fluid Dynamics: Aero-Naval-Mechanical Engineering, Blood Flows (Haemodynamics), Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Multi-physics.

Full Professor of the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Rostock and Head of  the Insitute from 2018 to 2021. He has been Faculty at the University of Heidelberg, Germany Institute of Applied Mathematics, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Mathematics & Computer Science and  at the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) School of Mathematical Sciences. He has been awarded several prizes and scholarships such as the German Mathematics Competition, the DAAD, and has been the PI of several research projects funded by the German Research Council, the Heidelberg Academy of Science, German Research Foundation DFG, Danish Center for Scientific Computing. His research interests include dynamics (differential equations, dynamical systems, stochastic systems) in modelling, analysis, numerics, simulation and optimization of complex scientific, medical and engineering systems (among others: surface chemistry and catalysis, distributed robotics, self-organization, neuroscience and olfactory system, rotating machinery, traffic and mobility networks).  

The Henry & Lucy Moses Professor of Science Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University and Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Institute for Advanced Study. Since 2004, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 2020 member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2015 she was the Association for Women in Mathematics' Noether Lecturer at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2007 the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics selected Young to give the Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the 2007 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. She is the recipient of the 2021 Jürgen Moser Lecture prize "for her sustained and deep contributions to the theory of non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems. Her research interests revolve around the mathematical theory of chaos, large-scale and stochastic dynamical systems and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics.