Plenary Lectures

Annalisa Quaini is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Houston. She earned B.S./M.S. Degrees in Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2005 and received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2009. Her interests are in the general area of computational partial differential equations, and more specifically in computational fluid dynamics with various applications in Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Atmospheric Science. She is the recipient of the 2021-2022 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellowship from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Maria Strazzullo is a researcher at the Polytechnic University of Turin. She earned her PhD in Mathematical Analysis, Modelling, and Applications from SISSA, the International School for Advanced Studies, as a member of the mathLab research group. Following her doctoral studies, she embarked on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Polytechnic University of Turin before obtaining her current position. Dr. Strazzullo's research focuses on Reduced Order Modelling for parametric optimal control problems, convection-dominated flows, and numerical stabilization. She has a wide range of side interests, including interdisciplinary applications, uncertainty quantification, and leveraging machine learning techniques in numerical solution of partial differential equations.

Prof Emilio Martinez-Paneda is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford, he was a Reader (Associate Professor) at Imperial College London, where he led an interdisciplinary research group from 2019 to 2023 (2019: Lecturer, 2021: Senior Lecturer, 2023: Reader). Before that, he was an 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Prof Emilio Martinez-Paneda’s research spans a wide range of challenges lying at the interface between mechanics and other disciplines such as biology, geology, chemistry and materials science. He has been the PI on over 5M€ of funding in the past five years (ERC Starting Grant, UKRI) and his work has been recognized through multiple awards, including the 2021 UK Young Engineer of the Year (Royal Academy of Engineering), the 2022 Imperial College President’s Medal for Excellence in Research, the 2021 Gustavo Colonnetti Medal (RILEM), the 2024 O.C. Zienkiewicz Award (ECCOMAS) and the 2024 John Argyris Award (IACM).