About

Patricio Farrell is a mathematician, specializing in numerical methods for science and engineering. He leads the research group Numerical methods for innovative semiconductor devices at WIAS Berlin and serves as vice chair of KoMSO, the Committee for Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization. He is a scientific ambassador within Brain City Berlin and works as a journalist. The business magazine Capital voted Patricio Farrell among their "Top 40 under 40".

CV

• Research group leader in mathematics, WIAS Berlin
• Vice chair, Committee for Mathematical Modeling, Simulation and Optimization (KoMSO)
• Privatdozent & Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin
• Visiting professor at various institutions, including SISSA, Inria Lille & the University of Florence
• Fixed-term professor, Hamburg University of Technology
• Research associate, WIAS Berlin
• PhD, University of Oxford
• Diplom, University of Hamburg and University of Bath

Grants

• Research group Numerical methods for innovative semiconductor devices (€1,000,000)
• Associated partner within Excellence in Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers (PCSELence)
• PI within the MATH+ projects:
  • PaA-1: Electronics of Nanostructured Perovskite Devices (€140,000)
  • A2-10: Electro-Mechanical Coupling for Semiconductor Devices (€140,000)
  • IN-11: Identifying and Efficiently Computing Band-Edge Energies for Charge Transport Simulations in Strained Materials (€70,000)
  • IN-B3: Understanding doping variations in silicon crystals (€70,000)

Activities

• Vice Chair of KoMSO, building a new vision, mission and structure for applied mathematics community
• Editor of Open Mathematics (De Gruyter)
• Scientific ambassador for Brain City Berlin
• Mentor within Berlin Mathematical School and WIAS
• Member of SIAM, KoMSO, ECMI as well as the ECMI special interest group Modeling, Simulation and Optimization in Electrical Engineering