Florian Feppon: ECCOMAS PhD Award and Prix Paul Caseau

The European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) awardedDr Florian Fepponwith theECCOMAS PhD Awardforone of the two bestdoctoral theses in the field Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering. Out of 18 nominees, both winners combined excellent knowledge of both theory and practice, with special insight in the fundamental and computational aspects. Florian’s thesis"Shape and topology optimization of multiphysics systems"convinced the committee thanks to the development of new mathematical methodologies, algorithms, their analysis and their application to shape and topology optimization of multi-physics systems.

Subsequently, Florian was awarded the2020 Prix Paul Caseaufrom the EDF and the Institut de France (French academy of technologies).Every year, this award nominates doctoral theses in three different domains of scientific computing having potential impacts in the field of energy. Florian is one of the co-awardee in the field Numerical Modelling and Simulation.

Florian Fepponis a Hermann-Weyl postdoctoral instructor, mentored by Professor Habib Ammari at theSeminar for Applied Mathematics (SAM). Florian’s research focuses on topology optimisation and inverse problems of wave and fluid systems with the level-set method or the homogenisation method.