My research interests cover a wide range of topics in applied and computational mathematics, mostly related to multiscale modeling and numerical methods for phenomena described by nonlinear partial differential equations, in particular hyperbolic and mean-field/kinetic equations. These problems have been addressed using different methodologies in various fields of applied sciences and scientific computing, ranging from classical physics and engineering (fluid dynamics, rarefied gases, semiconductors, plasma physics, granular materials, quantum mechanics) to socio-economic and life sciences (traffic flow, opinion formation, wealth distribution, finance, epidemiology, hemodynamics). Recently, my interests have focused on problems of uncertainty quantification, optimal control, global optimization and machine learning. 

Lorenzo Pareschi is Chair of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh UK. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bologna, Italy, and subsequently helds visiting professorships at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, the University of Orléans, France, and the University of Toulouse, France. He is Professor of Numerical Analysis and served as Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Ferrara, Italy. Lorenzo was awarded as Nelder Fellow at the Imperial College, London, UK, in 2015, John von Neumann Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2019 and Wolfson Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023. He is currently member of the steering committee of the Italian Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIMAI), and member of the Committee for Applications and Interdisciplinary Relations (CAIR) of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). He served as associate editor for several international journals among which Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, and SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. The results of his research activity are reported in more than 200 scientific publications and 5 books.