About: 

Andrey Latyshev joined the Legato team in March 2023 as a doctoral researcher in the MATHCODA doctoral training unit. His PhD project is dedicated to developing cutting-edge numerical methods for uncertainty quantification, aiming to comprehend the functional stochastic behaviour of instability problems in solid mechanics. The PhD project is jointly supervised by Dr. Jack S. Hale (Legato team) and Prof. Corrado Maurini (Sorbonne Université, France).

In addition to Andrey’s PhD project, he contributes to the FEniCSx Project by developing a framework that extends the functionality of the powerful finite element solver DOLFINx. The framework allows for solving solid mechanics problems in a variational setting for a wide range of constitutive models, including ones defined in external packages. The work is done in collaboration with Dr. Jack S. Hale (Legato team), Prof. Corrado Maurini (Sorbonne Université, France), and Dr. Jérémy Bleyer (École des Ponts ParisTech, France).

Andrey has completed a bachelor’s degree in Mechanics and Mathematical Modeling and a master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering and Mathematical Modeling at Novosibirsk State University. He also earned an engineering degree (equivalent to a master's) at École des Ponts ParisTech as part of a double degree program during his master's. Throughout his studies, he worked on the following scientific projects: “The equilibrium problem of a two-dimensional elastic body with a thin elastic inclusion” (bachelor’s thesis), “Determination of the hydraulic fracturing initiation pressure for different types of well completion” (master’s thesis), and “Finite-element implementation of plasticity using a convex optimization approach” (master’s thesis).