Prof. Edriss S. Titi

Professor Edriss S. Titi is the holder of the Nonlinear Mathematical Sciences Professorial Chair at the University of Cambridge, UK, since 2018, and the Arthur Owen Professorship of Mathematics in Texas A&M University, since 2014, and University Distinguished Professor as of 2020. Since 2003 he is also a Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Moreover, he is Professor Emeritus in the University of California, Irvine, where he used to hold (1988-2013) a joint appointment in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Professor Titi was the Orson Anderson Distinguished Visiting Scholar (1997-1998) at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) and the Stanislaw M. Ulam Distinguished Visiting Scholar (2002-2003) at the Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) in the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK. In 2009 he received the Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation, Germany; and also received the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Prize on Best Paper in Partial Differential Equations. In 2012 he was selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM Fellow), and a Fellow of the Inaugural Class of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). In 2013 he received the Ciência sem Fronteiras - Science without Boundaries Scholarship, by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico (CNPq), Brazil. In 2017 he was a Senior Simons Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, and in 2018 he was the Gaspard Monge Distinguished Visiting Professor at École Polytechnique – Paris. He has also received the Einstein Visiting Fellow award, from the Einstein Stiftung/Foundation, Berlin, (2018-2020). In 2018 he was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

The research of Edriss S. Titi in applied and computational mathematics lies at the interface between rigorous applied analysis and physical applications. Most of my work has been focused on the development of analytical and computational techniques for investigating nonlinear phenomena. Specifically, in studying the Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations of incompressible and compressible fluids, and other related nonlinear partial differential equations. Such equations arise as models in a wide range of applications in nonlinear science and engineering. The applications include, but are not limited to, fluid mechanics, oceanic and atmospheric dynamics and their coupling with moisture micro-physics in clouds formation, turbulence, chemical reactions, nonlinear fiber optics, control theory and data assimilation for weather and climate prediction.