Dr Alberto Paganini

Associate Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics

School/Department: Computing and Mathematic Sciences, School of

Profile

I am an associate professor in applied and computational mathematics in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences.

Before joining the University of Leicester I worked

at the University of Oxford (2016-2019)
at Pembroke College (2018-2019)
and at ETH Zurich (2011-2016).

You can learn more about my academic family here. My Erdös number is 4. My ORCiD is 0000-0003-3309-7657.

Research

I am a numerical analyst and I study numerical methods for PDE-constrained shape optimization and its applications. I am also interest in numerical software. My main project is the open source library Fireshape. You can find a complete list of my publications on Google Scholar.

Supervision

I am happy to supervise projects on the following topics: finite element method, optimization, optimization with PDE constraints, and inverse problems.

Teaching

MAGIC079: Inverse Problems
MA3513 Industrial Mathematics Project

Press and media

I am happy to discuss the role of mathematics in society and industrial collaborations via student projects.

For an example, see this press release.

Activities

(Aug 2023) I have given a talk in the conference Numerical Analysis in the 21st Century
(Mar 2023) I have been awarded an ICMS Knowledge Exchange Catalyst Fellowship to collaborate with Flexeserve.
(Jan 2023) In collaboration with Dr Aldo Rona, we have secured an £183k Innovate UK KTP to pursue an industrial collaboration with The Alan Nuttall Partnership.
(Jan 2023) I have been awarded an Advance HE Fellowship.
(Feb 2022) I have funding to hire a PhD student on the project Going stealth: magnetic cloaking via shape optimization of superconductors. The project is in collaboration with Professor Georgoulis and Dr H Ruiz Rondan.
(Jan 2022) I am giving a lecture series about shape optimization at the Geilo Winter School.
(Sept 2021) I have been awarded a Royal Society Short Industry Fellowship to collaborate with Bluesky International Ltd.
(Jun 2021) I have secured an £84k SPRINT Innovation Voucher to collaborate with Bluesky International Ltd to reduce storage requirements of digital citymaps.
(Jun 2021) Nicolas Boullé, Patrick Farrell, and I have written a manuscript about the Control of bifurcation structures using shape optimization. You can find it here. (Update: accepted for publication in the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing)
(Apr 2021) I have secured £6,410 from the International Research Development Fund (IRDF ODA) to continue my industrial collaboration with Routemasters and improve access to the informal transport network of Lagos, Nigeria.
(Apr 2021) I started an industrial collaboration with Oazara Limited about to develop new solar panel designs. The collaboration is supported by a Space Technology Applications from Research ("STAR") Accelerator grant.
(Mar 2021) I started an industrial collaboration with Zurich Data Scientists.
(Oct 2020) Behnam Hashemi, Ernest Alsina Ballester, Luca Belluzzi, and I have written a manuscript about Fast and accurate approximation of the angle-averaged redistribution function for polarized radiation. You can find it here. (Update: accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics)
(Oct 2020) I have funding to hire a PhD student on the project Structural optimization applied to space missions. The project is in collaboration with Professor Georgoulis.
(July 2020) I have secured an £84k SPRINT Innovation Voucher to collaborate with Routemasters to improve access to the informal transport network of Lagos, Nigeria.
(May 2020) Florian Wechsung and I have written a manuscript about the shape optimization software Fireshape. You can find it here. (Update: accepted for publication in Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization).
(Jan 2020) I am collaborating with artist Lee Allatson on the Maths meets arts project Sounds of surface.