Expert on Applied Mathematics

Born in Eibar (Gipuzkoa) in 1961. Since 2001 he has held the chair of applied mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and since last September has been a researcher at Ikerbasque and Scientific Director of the BCAM – Basque Center for Applied Mathematics. He is also an honorary member of Jakiunde and sits on the Innobasque's executive board of technological innovation. He holds a degree in mathematics from the Universidad del País Vasco, a PhD from the same university (1987) and another from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1988). During the academic year 1987-1988 he was a part-time lecturer at the University of the Basque Country and went on to become a tenured lecturer in Mathematical Analysis at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 1990 he became professor of applied mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2001 he moved to the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

He has been a visiting lecturer at the Courant Institute in New York and the Universities of Minnesota and Rice in the USA, the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris-Sud, Versailles, Orleans, Toulouse, Nice and the École Polytechnique de Paris, among others.

He is the editor-in-chief of “ESAIM:COCV", Correspondent Editor of the “SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization" and member of the editorial committee of other magazines and of scientific committees of various centres and agencies, and chairs the Mathematics committee for advanced grants of the European Research Council (ERC).

He has been awarded the Euskadi Prize for Science and Technology 2006 and the National Julio Rey Pastor Prize 2007 in Mathematics and Information and Communication Technology.

With over 200 articles published, his work has had an important impact and he was recognised as a “Highly Cited Researcher" by the ISI Institute (Thomson) in 2004.

His fields of specialisation in the area of applied mathematics cover equations in partial derivatives, systems control and numerical analysis.

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