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Prof. Dr.
Luca Gerardo-Giorda
Group Leader
Mathematical Methods in Medicine and Life Sciences
Contact
Email: lgg(at)ricam.oeaw.ac.at
Telephone: +43 732 2468 4141
Biographical sketch
- born on March 19, 1972 in Barge (CN), Italy
- 1996: Laurea Degree in Mathematics, University of Turin, Italy
- 2002: Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Trento, Italy
- 2014: Qualification to Professor in Applied Mathematics (Section 26), French Ministry of Research
- 2018: Qualification to Full Professor in Numerical Anaysis, Italian Ministry of University and Research
FORMER AND CURRENT POSITIONS
- 1999-2002: PhD student at University of Trento, Italy
- 2001: Stagiaire de Recherche, Centre de Mathematiques Appliquees, Ecole Politechnique, Paris, France
- 2003-2004: Marie Curie Industry Fellow, Division of Applied Mathematics, Institut Francais du Petrole, Rueil Malmaison, France
- 2004-2007: Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Italy
- 2008-2010: Post Doc Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta (GA), USA
- 2010-2011: Fellow of the Centre for Disease Ecology, Emory University, Atlanta (GA), USA
- 2011-2014: Senior Researcher, Mathematical Biology and Molecular Simulation Group, BCAM Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
- 2014-2020: Research Line Leader, Mathematical Modelling in Bioscience, BCAM Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
- since Feb. 2020: Full Professor of Mathematical Methods in Medicine and Life Sciences, Johannes Kepler University Linz
- since Feb. 2020: Group Leader of Mathematical Methods in Medicine and Life Sciences Group, RICAM
Research interests
- Biomedical modeling and simulation
- Electrocardiology and Radiofrequency ablation
- Multiscale Glioma modeling
- Infectious diseases
- Numerical Approximation of PDE
- Fractional diffusion