BCAM launches its "Severo Ochoa Strategic Labs" programme with a Laboratory in modelling with PDE in Mathematical Biology in collaboration with Prof. Jose Antonio Carrillo from Oxford University

The programme aims to strengthen the internationalisation of the centre through collaboration with renowned international researchers in research areas of reference.

In this first edition, the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics - BCAM has the collaboration of Prof. Jose Antonio Carrillo, who is leading an ERC Advanced Grant 2019 project for the development of non-local PDE for complex particle dynamics: phase transitions, patterns and synchronization. The laboratory will be co-led by Prof. Elena Akhmatskaya, Ikerbasque Professor at BCAM who coordinates the area of mathematical modelling with multidisciplinary applications.

The objectives of this joint laboratory are:
-    To promote collaborative research on hot topics such as machine learning methods and PDE, and thus strengthen the centre's research areas and generate synergies.
-    To contribute to BCAM projects on mathematical modelling applied to health.
-    Explore the connection between pure/applied mathematics and new research topics in collaboration with BCAM research areas
-    Strengthen contacts within the international scientific community
-    To provide specialised training to the members of the centre.

At the same time, work is underway to define other laboratories in the field of PDE (and their relationship with Geometry and Fluid Mechanics) and in other areas such as data science.

This programme highlights the importance of international collaboration between research centres and universities, as well as the strengthening that this can mean for the centre's lines of research and its international positioning. The agreement will materialize through different activities such as the joint supervision of postdoctoral researchers or visits to the centre and joint participation in scientific activities.

This initiative is part of the actions promoted by BCAM thanks to the accreditation of "Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence" granted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation through the State Research Agency and that BCAM has for the period 2014-2022.

About Jose Carrillo 

Prof. Carrillo is currently Professor of the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in the Mathematics Institute, Oxford University and Tutorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics, The Queen's College. His research field is Partial Differential Equations (PDE). They constitute the basic language in which most of the laws in physics or engineering can be written and one of the most important mathematical tools for modelling in life and socio-economical sciences. The modelling based on PDEs, their mathematical analysis, the numerical schemes, and their simulation in applications are his general topics of research. 

José A. Carrillo was previously Chair in Applied and Numerical Analysis at Imperial College London from October 2012 till March 2020. He was formerly ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona during the period 2003-2012. He was a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin 1998-2000. He held assistant and associate professor positions at the Universidad de Granada 1992-1998 and 2000-2003, where he also did his PhD.