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Fatiha Alabau

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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

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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

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

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae (in French), Société Mathématique de France, retrieved 2022-03-17 – via Yumpu
  2. ^ Membres, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, retrieved 2022-03-17
  3. ^ Membres, Department de mathématiques de Metz, retrieved 2022-03-17
  4. ^ Présentation générale, Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, archived from the original on 2016-04-01{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ Fatiha Alabau at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Editor biography, Trends in Control Theory and Partial Differential Equations, Springer, 2019