Prof. Dr. Siddhartha Mishra

Siddhartha Mishra hails from Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India where he received his BSc in Physics and Mathematics from Utkal University in 2000. He obtained his MS degree in Mathematical Sciences (2003) and PhD in Mathematics (2005) from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 2005. He was a postdoctoral researcher from 2005 to 2009 at the Center of Mathematics for Applications (CMA) at the University of Oslo, Norway. From 2009 to 2011, Mishra was an assistant professor at SAM, ETH Zurich and an associate professor at the University of Oslo from 2011 to 2012. Since 2012, Mishra is at ETH Zurich, first as an associate professor from 2012 and as a Chair Professor of Applied Mathematics from 2015. Mishra is the Director of Computational Science Zurich and a core Faculty at the ETH AI Center.

Mishra's research interests are in numerical analysis, scientific computing, nonlinear PDEs, machine learning, computational fluid dynamics, computational astrophysics, computational climate science and modeling and simulation of biological systems. Mishra's research has been recognized with many awards and honors including the ERC Starting Grant (2012), ERC Consolidator Grant (2017), GAMM Richard Von Mises Prize (2015), ECCOMASS Jacques Louis Lions Medal (2018), ICIAM Collatz Prize (2019) and INFOSYS prize in Mathematical Science (2019). He has been an invited speaker at many leading international conferences including the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), Rio De Janiero, 2018.