Biography:Fatiha Alabau

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Short description: French applied mathematician

Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira (born 1961)[1] is a French applied mathematician specializing in the control theory of partial differential equations. She is affiliated with the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions of Sorbonne University as an external member,[2] a professor at the University of Lorraine in the mathematics department of its Metz campus,[3] and a former president of the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, a French society for applied mathematics.[4]

Education and career

Alabau was born 27 August 1961 in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise. She earned a diplôme d'études approfondies in numerical analysis in 1984 at Pierre and Marie Curie University,[1] where she defended her doctoral thesis in 1987 under the supervision of Roland Glowinski.[1][5]

After postdoctoral research as a visiting assistant professor at Arizona State University, she became maître de conferences at the University of Bordeaux 1 in 1988, and earned a habilitation there in 1996. She became a professor at Louis Pasteur University in 1997, and moved to Paul Verlaine University – Metz (which later became part of the University of Lorraine) in 1999.[1]

Service and recognition

Alabau was president of the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles from 2014 to 2017.[6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 (in fr) Curriculum vitae, Société Mathématique de France, https://www.yumpu.com/fr/document/view/48729346/curriculum-vitae-fatiha-alabau-boussouira-publications-de-la-smf, retrieved 2022-03-17 
  2. Membres, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, https://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/membres/, retrieved 2022-03-17 
  3. Membres, Department de mathématiques de Metz, https://mim.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/content/membres, retrieved 2022-03-17 
  4. Présentation générale, Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, http://smai.emath.fr/spip.php?article2&lang=fr 
  5. Fatiha Alabau at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Editor biography, Trends in Control Theory and Partial Differential Equations, Springer, 2019