Biography
Hans De Sterck is a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. He has been serving as the Chair of the department since July 2023. He joined the University in 2004, after obtaining his PhD at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1999, followed by postdoctoral research positions at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Mechanics (Belgium) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA). Between 2015 and 2018, he worked as a Professor at Monash University (Australia). He served as the Director of Waterloo's Centre for Computational Mathematics from 2020 to 2023. Prof. De Sterck's area of research is numerical methods for computational science and data science. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and is the Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.
