Information

Membership Number: FCA3311

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Mathematics and Information Sciences

Corresponding Email: enrique.zuazua@fau.de

Homepage(s): https://dcn.nat.fau.eu/enrique-zuazua/ 

Present and Previous Positions

2019- Chair Professor (W3). FAU, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics, Alexander von Humboldt Professor

2021- Chief Algorithm Scientist at Sherpa.ai, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain (part-time)

2016- Director of the Chair of Computational Mathematics at Deusto Foundation, Bilbao, Spain (part-time)

2001- Full Professor in Applied Mathematics at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain (part-time)

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Applied Mathematics includes Partial Differential Equations, Systems Control, Numerical Analysis and Machine Learning.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

2023-2028              ERC Advanced Grant CoDeFeL, (2.5Me )

2023-2027              INRIA International Chair - Advanced Career, France

2022              W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize, SIAM

2021              Top Talent Ciencia Award, Bilbao, Spain, Deia Newspaper

2018-2026              Alexander von Humboldt Professor, FAU, Germany(3.5Me )

2018              Invited   profile   in    "Arbolmat",     El    Árbol    de   las    Matemáticas, UNIVERSIA, https://www.arbolmat.com/enrique-zuazua/

2016-2021              ERC Advanced Grant DyCon, (2Me )

2016-2020              Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France ICON Grant, (600 Ke )

2015-2019              High-End Foreign Teacher of the University of Sichuan, Chengdu, China

2015-                Ambassador of FAU, Erlangen, Germany

2015-                Member of Academia Europaea

July 2014              Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Lorraine, France

2014-2015              Humboldt Research Award 2013, FAU, Germany, (60 Ke )

2013-2014              CIMI Excellence Chair, Toulouse, France, (Spring Semester)

2013-2014                "Research in Paris" Award, Paris City Hall, (Fall Semester) 2010-2015    ERC Advanced Grant NUMERIWAVES (1.7 Me )

2007               J. Rey Pastor National Prize, Spain

2007-               Full member of "Jakiunde", the Basque Academy for Science, Arts and Letters

2006              Science and Technology Euskadi Prize, Basque Government

2004              "Highly Cited Researcher", ISI Institute (Thomson)

He has been awarded the Euskadi (Basque Country) Prize for Science and Technology 2006 and the National Julio Rey Pastor Prize 2007 in Mathematics and Information and Communication Technology and the Advanced Grants of the European Research Council (ERC) NUMERIWAVES in 2010, DyCon in 2016, and CoDeFeL in 2022. In 2022, he was awarded the W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize of SIAM. He was invited section speaker in "Control and Optimization" in the International Congress of Mathematicians-ICM2006, Madrid and will deliver a Special Section Lecture in the International Congress of Mathematicians ICM2026 in the fields of Control and Artificial Intelligence.

He was the first Manager for Mathematics of the Spanish National Research Plan in 1999-2002, the Founding Scientific Director of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in 2008-2012 and in 2016 he launched the Chair of Computational Mathematics at the Deusto Foundation, both in Bilbao. Since 2021, he has been the speaker of the FAU Research Center for Mathematics of Data (FAU MoD). He also develops an intense dissemination agenda, gathered at https://cmc.deusto.eus/enzuazua/.

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=t-IxzegAAAAJ&hl=es 

Other Information

Acceptance Letter Zuazua.pdf

CV_2025_EZuazua (1).pdf