Peter Markowich#
| Membership Number: | 6470 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SAUDI ARABIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/peter-markowich |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics at KAUST, Thuwal, KSA
- 2007 - 2019 Professor of Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK (December 2011 - January 2019: emeritus since February 2019)
- 1999 O.- Univ. Professor for Applied Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna
- 1998 - 1999 O.- Univ. Professor for Analysis, Institute of Analysis and Numerical Mathematics, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
- 1991 - 1998 Professor (C4), Department of Mathematics, TU Berlin
- 1990 - 1991 Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
- 1989 - 1990 Professor (C3), Department of Mathematics, TU Berlin
- 1989 Visiting Professor, Centre des Mathematiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
- 1982 - 1989 Assistant Professor, Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics, TU-Vienna
- 1981 - 82 Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department and Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Mathematical analysis
- Applied partial differential equations
- Numerical analysis and modelling
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, class IV - Natural Sciences (https://euro-acad.eu)
- 2022 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA)
- 2022 Distinguished Lecture in Mathematics, Capital Normal University, Beijing
- 2021 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- 2020 Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (www.eurasc.org)
- 2019 Distinguished Lecture at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore
- 2018 J.T. Oden Faculty Fellowship at ICES (University of Texas)
- 2018 Ciprian Foias Lectures of Mathematics at Texas A&M
- 2017 Distinguished Lecture, Institute for Advanced Studies at Hong Kong City University
- 2016 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Invitation Fellowship at Kyoto University
- 2016 Distinguished Lecture in the "Adventures in Theory" Lecture Series at the Center of Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences of Duke University
- 2015 Frontier Lecture, CSRC Beijing
- 2015 Keynote Lecture, AIP Conference Helsinki (Applied Inverse Problems)
- 2015 William Benter Distinguished Lecturer, Hong Kong City University
- 2015 J.T. Oden Faculty Fellowship at ICES (University of Texas)
- 2013 Von Neumann Visiting Professorship at the Technical University Munich
- 2011 Excellence Chair of the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris
- 2010 Invited Lecture (45 min) at the ICM 2010 (International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, Hyderabad, India)
- 2009 Humboldt Research Award
- 2008 Inaugural KAUST Investigator Award
- 2007 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2005 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Plenary Lecture at the ICIAM 2003 (5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Sydney, Australia)
- 2000 Wittgenstein Award of the Austrian Science Fund
