Jan S. Hesthaven

Jan S. Hesthaven is Dean of Basic Sciences, Professor of Mathematics, and holds the Chair of Computational Mathematics and Simulation Science at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Prior to joining EPFL in 2013, he was Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. He has worked for more than two decades on the development, analysis, and application of modern computational methods for linear and nonlinear wave problems, with an emphasis on high-order accurate methods. He is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2001), an NSF Career award winner (2002), and a SIAM Fellow (2014).