Biographical Information

Robert D. Russell (PhD New Mexico, 1971). After holding a faculty position at Colorado State University, he joined the faculty of Simon Fraser University in 1972 where he is currently a Professor of Mathematics and the director of Centre for Scientific Computing. He has been elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009. His research interests are in the numerical solution of partial differential equations using adaptive methods, particularly moving grid methods. He received the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Research Prize in 2004. He is one of the five ISI Highly Cited Canadian Researchers in Mathematics and Statistics. He is associate editor for the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. He was associate editor for the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. He has held several visiting professorship positions at Imperial College, Stanford, Central University of Venezuela, Catholic University of Chile, University of Auckland. He is also a founding member and a past president of the Canadian Applied Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS).