Manuel J. Castro

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Sciences. Universidad de Málaga (Spain), 1992. - Master in Applied Mathematics (‘D.E.A. Analyse Numérique’). Univ. P. Et M. Curie (France), 1993. - PhD in Applied Mathematics. Universidad de Málaga (Spain), 1996. Advisors: O. Pironneau (Paris VI) and Carlos Parés Madroñal (Univ. Málaga). - Assistant Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad), from 2000 to 2020. Full professor (Catedrático de Universidad) from 2020. I’m a member of EDANYA group (Differential Equations Numerical Analysis and Applications) and I focus my research on the numerical analysis of non-conservative hyperbolic systems and the modeling of geophysical flows. Specifically, I have been working on the development and analysis of numerical schemes for those systems in the framework of 'path-conservative' finite volume method, with applications to the simulation of coastal currents, floods, avalanches, sediment transport, turbidity currents, generation and propagation of tsunamis, biphasic flows, magnetohydrodynamics, etc ... I have also been interested in the efficient implementation of the numerical models using multicore and multiGPU architectures and, more recently, on uncertainty quantification, data assimilation, and on the application of deep neural networks in the framework of tsunami modelling. I have published more than 100 works, most of them in top rated journals on Numerical Analysis, Computer Science and Geophysical applications. I’ve been PI of 6 national/regional research projects and researcher in the ETC-ITN network "Modeling and Computation of Shocks and Interfaces" funded by EU, as well as in 5 international projects funded by EU program Horizon 2020. I have been invited/plenary speaker in top rated international conferences and workshops of my area of research (EHF, CEDYA, NUMHYP, HYP, ECMI, …) and I have honored to be lecturer at the ICM 2018 in the Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing section. I have directed 12 PhD thesis (7 in the last 10 years), and 3 are currently in progress. I have been PI of 8 contracts (art. 83) with the NOAA (USA) and INGV (Italy) agencies related to tsunami modelling and its numerical approximation. I have been member of the research team in more than 20 research contracts with different agencies and enterprises as INGV (Italy) , IGN (Spain), IGME (Spain), INDRA (Spain), among others. I also have contributed to the design of 3 patents and I also participate in a science dissemination program at the University of Malaga oriented to Secondary and High School. I have been awarded with 4 “sexenios de investigación” and 1 “sexenio de transferencia”. I was awarded with the J.Lions Lions Award to Young Scientists in Computational Mathematics, awarded by ECCOMAS in 2008, and in 2018, our group EDANYA has been awarded with the Nvidia Global Impact Award 2018, for our contributions in tsunami modeling, and in particular for the numerical development of Tsunami-HySEA model, that has been incorporated in the core of several national tsunami early warning systems. Finally, my name has been included in the Stanford world’s top 2% Scientist 2021.