At the 2024 ICIAM Board Meeting, Weizhu Bao and Jose A. Carillo were elected Officers-at-Large. This brings the set of officers to full strength, following the decision at an earlier meeting to increase the number of at-large officers from two to six. The most recent officers join Kenji Kajiwara and Yvonne Stokes, who were elected last year.
Weizhu Bao is Provost's Chair Professor at Department of Mathematics, and Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Academic Affairs of Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore (NUS). He got his PhD from Tsinghua University in 1995 and afterwards he had postdoc and faculty positions at Tsinghua University, Imperial College in UK, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Wisconsin at Madison in USA.
Weizhu Bao joined NUS as an Assistant Professor in 2000 and was promoted to Professor in 2009. His research interests include numerical methods for partial differential equations, scientific computing/numerical analysis, analysis and computation for problems from physics, chemistry, biology and engineering sciences. He has made significant contributions in modeling and simulation of Bose-Einstein condensation, solid-state dewetting and geometric PDEs; and in multiscale methods and analysis for highly oscillatory PDEs. He had been on the Editorial Board of SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing during 2009--2014 and is currently on the Editorial Board of SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis.
Bao was awarded the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing by the Chinese Computational Mathematics Society in 2013. He has been invited to give plenary and/or invited talks in many international conferences including an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2014. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS Fellow), a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM Fellow) and a Fellow of Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS Fellow) in 2022.
For more about Weizhu Bao, see his web page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/819-weizhu-bao/about
José A. Carrillo is currently Professor of the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations at the Mathematical Institute and Tutorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics at The Queen's College, University of Oxford associated to the OxPDE, Numerical Analysis and WCMB groups. He was previously Chair in Applied and Numerical Analysis at Imperial College London from October 2012 till March 2020 and ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona during the period 2003-2012. He was a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin 1998-2000; and held assistant and associate professor positions at the Universidad de Granada 1992-1998 and 2000-2003, where he also did his PhD.
He works on kinetic equations and nonlinear nonlocal diffusion equations. He has contributed to the theoretical and numerical analysis of PDEs, and their simulation in different applications such as granular media, semiconductors and lately in collective behaviour. His main scholarship contributions in analysis of PDEs are in aggregation-diffusion problems, i.e. nonlinear Fokker-Planck type equations; the use of optimal transport techniques and entropy methods to analyse theoretically and numerically gradient-flow structures for PDEs and their singularities; the analysis of kinetic models for self-organization, and their implications in mathematical biology, control engineering and global optimization. His interests in mathematical biology include the understanding of cell sorting by differential adhesion and synchronization phenomena in neuroscience.
He served as chair of the Applied Mathematics Committee of the European Mathematical Society 2014-2017 and of the 2018 Year of Mathematical Biology. He was the Program Director of the SIAM activity group in Analysis of PDE 2019-2020. He was vice-president of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology 2021-2023, now member of its board; and member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish National Science Agency 2021-2024. He was elected as member of the European Academy of Sciences, Section Mathematics in 2018, SIAM Fellow Class 2019, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain in 2021.He is now the head of the Division of the European Academy of Sciences, Section Mathematics.
He was recognised with the SEMA prize (2003) and the GAMM Richard Von-Mises prize (2006) for young researchers, a Wolfson Research Merit Award by the Royal Society 2012-2017, and the 2016 SACA award for best PhD supervision at Imperial College London. He has been Highly Cited Researcher in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 by Web of Science. He received the 2022 Echegaray Medal of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences. This is the highest scientific award granted by the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences and is awarded in recognition of an exceptional scientific career. He has been plenary speaker in important conferences of the area among which the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics at Tokyo in 2023. He has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant 2019 to pursue his investigations in complex particle dynamics: phase transitions, patterns, and synchronization.
For more about Jose Carillo, see his web page: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/jose.carrillodelaplata