Jan S. Hesthaven appointed Dean of EPFL's School of Basic Sciences

Professor Jan S. Hesthaven, director of EPFL's Chair of Computational Mathematics and Simulation Science, has been appointed as the new Dean of the School of Basic Sciences. On January 9, Professor Jan S. Hesthaven was officially named Dean of EPFL's School of Basic Sciences, succeeding Professor Thomas Rizzo who has served in the position for over twelve years. Professor Hesthaven joined EPFL in 2013 as the Chair of Computational Mathematics and Simulation Science, with a research focus on the development, analyses, and application of high-order accurate computational methods for time-dependent partial differential equations. Applications include problems in electromagnetics, plasma physics, geoscience and cosmology and relies on the use of parallel computing and GPU-accelerated computing and research topics such as uncertainty quantification and reduced order modeling. Professor Hesthaven received a Master in Computational Physics from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in August 1991, including a six months research internship at the experimental fusion device Joint European Torus (JET), based in Culham, UK. After his master's, Professor Hesthaven joined the DTU's Risø National Laboratory with a fellowship for a PhD in Numerical Analysis. During his studies, he had extensive stays the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University and in Department of Mathematics and Statistics at University of New Mexico. Having received his PhD in 1995, Professor Hesthaven joined Brown University, where he was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Advanced Scientific Computing, and was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics.