Alain Goriely
Alain Goriely | |
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| Born | Brussels, Belgium |
| Alma mater | Université libre de Bruxelles (1989 – 94) |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Spouse | Nita Goriely |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Engineering Medal from the Society of Engineering Science (2024) Cozzarelli Prize (US National Academy of Sciences) (2019) Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2018) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2010) Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | University of Oxford University of Arizona Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Thesis | Integrability and Nonintegrability of Dynamical Systems: A Singularity Analysis Approach. |
| Doctoral advisor | Radu Bălescu |
| Website | www |
Alain Goriely FRS is a Belgian mathematician, currently holding the statutory professorship (chair) of mathematical modelling at the University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute. He is director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial Mathematics (OCIAM), of the International Brain and Mechanics Lab (IBMTL) and Professorial Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford. At the Mathematical Institute, he was the director of external relations and public engagement, from 2013 until 2022, initiating the Oxford Mathematics series of public lectures. In 2022, he was elected to the Royal Society, and Gresham Professor of Geometry at the Gresham College (London) in 2024.