Lorenzo Pareschi

Lorenzo Pareschi is Chair of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bologna, Italy, and has held visiting professorships at several international institutions, including the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Universities of Orléans and Toulouse. His academic distinctions include the Nelder Fellowship at Imperial College London (2015), the John von Neumann Professorship at the Technical University of Munich (2019), and the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship (2023). In 2026, he was elected to the Mathematics Division of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) and became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA). He is Editor-in-Chief of SIAM Multiscale Modeling & Simulation and a member of the Committee for Applications and Interdisciplinary Relations (CAIR) of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). He has also served on the Steering Committee of the Italian Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIMAI) and as Associate Editor of several international journals, including SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications and six books.