About

Patricio Farrell is a mathematician, specializing in numerical methods for science and engineering. He heads the research group Numerical methods for innovative semiconductor devices at WIAS Berlin and works as a journalist.

CV

• Research group leader in mathematics, WIAS Berlin
• Privatdozent & Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin
• Visiting professor at SISSA, Trieste as well as INRIA Lille
• Fixed-term professor, Hamburg University of Technology
• Research associate, WIAS Berlin
• PhD, University of Oxford
• Diplom, University of Hamburg and University of Bath

Grants and Activities

• 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:
  • 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)
• ECMI special interest group Modeling, Simulation and Optimization in Electrical Engineering
• ECMI, SIAM and SIAM CSE member