Annalisa Buffa

Annalisa Buffa has been a professor of mathematics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) since 2016. From 2022 to 2024, she served as Associate Vice President for Postgraduate Education, and since 2025, she has been Associate Vice President for Research.

She was the Research Director and Director of the Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Annalisa Buffa is a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei, an associé étranger of the French Academy of Sciences, a member of Academia Europaea, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences.

She is a leading expert in the numerical analysis of partial differential equations (PDEs). Her interests include geometric design, computational mechanics, computational electromagnetics, as well as approximation theory and functional analysis for PDEs. She received an ERC Starting Grant in 2008 and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2016. She is a recipient of the Collatz Prize from the ICIAM (2015) and served as the AWM-SIAM Sonya Kovalevskaya Lecturer at ICIAM 2023.

She has been a plenary speaker at multiple venues, including the European Congress of Mathematicians in 2024, the ECCOMAS conference in 2022, the centennial of the IMU in 2021, the AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations, and Applications in 2018, the International Congress of Mathematicians (Section 15, 2014), the ICIAM in 2015, the GAMM conference, and the FoCM conference in 2014. Annalisa Buffa is a highly cited researcher, according to ISI (2019).
 

Last update : August 25, 2025