Role
Professor Emeritus of Numerical Analysis at the University of Pavia
Bio
After graduating in mathematics from the University of Pavia in 1970, she began her scientific career as a researcher at the Institute of Numerical Analysis of the CNR (now IMATI-CNR). In 1990, she became a professor of numerical analysis at the University of Genoa, and since 1993, she has been a full professor of the same discipline at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pavia, where she currently holds the title of professor emerita.
Her research focuses on the development of numerical methods for partial differential equations using various finite element methods, with relevant applications to structural mechanics, semiconductor device modeling, electromagnetics , and fluid dynamics . She is internationally recognized as a pioneer of Discontinuous Galerkin methods and Virtual Element Methods (VEMs), innovative techniques for the computational solution of complex engineering and physical problems.
Author of over 100 scientific publications in top-ranked international journals, she served on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and currently serves on the editorial boards of CMAME, SINUM, and IMA-JNA. She has been a member of the European Academy of Sciences since 2010, and of the Istituto Lombardo, Academy of Sciences and Letters since 2019. She has been an invited speaker at prestigious international conferences and has co-organized international symposia on modern numerical discretization techniques.