BMS- BGSMath Junior Meeting

Fleurianne Bertrand is an assistant professor of Theory of Finite Element Methods at the University of Twente. She obtained her doctoral degree in 2014 at the Leibniz University of Hannover, under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Starke. She continued with a postdoctoral position at the University of Duisburg-Essen until 2018, when she became a junior professor of Computational Mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin and member of the BMS faculty. She moved to the current position in December 2020. Her research focuses on Numerical Mathematics with applications to Engineering & Materials Science—particularly finite element methods, elasticity, eigenvalue problems, and error analysis.

Xavier is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona since 2020. Previously, he has been Assistant Professor at Universität Zürich, as well as R. H. Bing Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a mathematician who works on Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Specifically, he studies the regularity of solutions to elliptic and parabolic PDEs, and he is mostly known for his results on free boundary problems and integro-differential equations. He is the PI of an ERC Starting Grant (2019-2024), has received several awards for young mathematicians in Spain, as well as the Scientific Research Award from the Fundación Princesa de Girona in 2019. Furthermore, in 2021 he was awarded the Stampacchia Gold Medal, an international prize awarded every three years in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Calculus of Variations.

Roberto is currently a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Department of Mathematics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has been a Professor Lector (tenure-track 1 lecturer) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Universitat de Barcelona. Until February 2021, he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (first Individual, since May 2020 COFUND Beatriu de Pinós). He did his postdoc at the Weizmann Institute. From September 2014 to March 2017 he was an Iberoamerican Visiting Researcher at IMPA. His PhD thesis “Generalized geometry of type Bn” was supervised by Nigel Hitchin at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University. Since January 2014, He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, after completing the TFP Programme of the Oxford Learning Institute. Roberto earned his first PhD in 2012, by the University Autónoma of Madrid. His PhD thesis “Higgs bundles and Hermitian symmetric spaces” was supervised by Óscar García-Prada at the ICMAT.