Cornelis Johannes van Duijn
Cornelis Johannes "Hans" van Duijn (born February 16, 1950 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch applied mathematician and physicist.
Hans van Duijn studied at the TU Eindhoven (graduated as a physics engineer in 1975) and received his doctorate in mathematics ( nonlinear diffusion problems ) in 1979 under Lambertus Peletier at the University of Leiden . He was a post-graduate student at the University of Minnesota . From 1980 he was in the Laboratory for Soil Mechanics at the TU Delft , where he was assistant professor from 1983 to 1995. From 1990 to 1997 he was an honorary professor at the University of Leiden. From 1995 to 2000 he was head of the modeling, analysis and simulation department at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam and from 1997 to 2000 he was part-time professor at the TU Delft. From 2000 he was professor for applied analysis at the TU Eindhoven. In 2004 he became dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and in 2005 rector ("Rector magnificus").
He was visiting scholar and visiting professor at the Center for Environmental Mechanics of the CSIRO in Canberra , at the University of Minnesota, at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis in Berlin, at the Ecole normal supérieure in Paris, at Rice University , the University of Bonn and the University of Lyon .
He is the chief editor of Computational Geosciences .
Hans van Duijn dealt, among other things, with elliptical and parabolic free boundary value problems , conservation laws , homogenization, flow and transport in porous media and biomedical applications.
In 1998 he received the Max Planck Research Award .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cornelis Johannes van Duijn in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duijn, Cornelis Johannes van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duijn, Hans van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam |