Massimiliano Ferronato

Short Bio:

Massimiliano Ferronato got the PhD degree in Numerical Geomechanics at the Technology University of Delft (The Netherlands) defending a thesis entitled: Rock expansion and compaction at the marker scale in gas producing reservoirs. He has been working since 2003 at the Department of Mathematical Methods and Models for Scientific Application (DMMMSA) of the University of Padova. In 2008, he was appointed Assistant Professor in Numerical Analysis at the School of Engineering of the University of Padova. In 2015, he was upgraded to Associate Professor and his current affiliation is the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering of the University of Padova. In 2016 he obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Numerical Analysis. The main scientific interests concern the analysis and development of mathematical and numerical models for the solution of the partial differential equations (PDE) governing the deformation and flow processes in saturated and partially saturated porous media, with specific applications in the field of subsurface hydrology and petroleum engineering. In particular, much care has been devoted to the numerical issues related to the development of novel computer methods for the robust and efficient solution of the linear systems of equations arising from such models. He is author and co-author of more than 80 papers published on international scientific journals with peer-review, and more than 60 communications published on proceedings of international conferences. He is a SIAM member (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) and has been Invited and Keynote Speaker in several international conferences, presenting advancements on the preconditioning of linear systems and the development of coupled flow-deformation models with mixed finite element techniques. n 2017 he was the recipient of the Excellent Regional Contribution Award given by the International Association for Computer Methods in Geomechanics (IACMAG), from the president Prof. John Carter and the honorary president Prof. Chandrakant Desai, with the following motivation: “for outstanding contributions to the development and application of novel computer methods and solvers in the field of the geomechanics of underground reservoirs and coupled Biot models”.