Susanne C. Brenner

Michael F. and Roberta Nesbit McDonald Professor

Research interests include: numerical analysis, finite element methods, multigrid methods, domain decomposition methods.

Susanne C. Brenner is the Michael F. and Roberta Nesbit McDonald Professor at Louisiana State University. She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation and Technology (CCT). At CCT she is also serving as the Associate Director for Academic Affairs since 2008.

In 2005, she was awarded a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2011 she was awarded the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture. She is a SIAM Fellow (Class of 2010), AMS Fellow (Inaugural Class 2012) and AAAS Fellow (2012).

Currently she serves as Managing Editor of Mathematics of Computation. She also serves on the editorial boards of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Numerische Mathematik, Numerical Algorithms, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, Journal of Numerical Mathematics and the SIAM Classics in Applied Mathematics. She serves on the Scientific Council of the Center International de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees (CIMPA, since 2009) and the AMS Council (since 2012). In addition, she is a member of the Electorate Nominating Committee for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section A (since 2013), the SIAM Fellows Selection Committee (since 2014) and a member of the Scientific Council of the Societe de Mathematiques Appliqeues et Industrielles (SMAI, since 2014). She is a past SIAM Vice President for Publications and served on the SIAM Council.