Education
École Polytechnique.
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Olivier Pironneau
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Pironneau is a worldwide recognized expert in fluid mechanics, scientific computing, optimal design, numerical analysis and partial differential equations. He is a highly-cited author, having written 8 books and 693 papers. He was awarded the Marcel Dassault Prize by the French Academy of Sciences in 2000.
His group has developed the software FreeFem++ which is used by researchers worldwide for finite element computations.
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French Academy of Sciences]
He is a member of French Academy of Sciences since 2002. He is also the recipient of the Blaise Pascal Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 1983, the Ordre National du Mérite (1989) and is an Associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2004.
