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Professor accepts academy honor

Glowinski instrumental in math department; researched math techniques for heart valves 

Cougar News Services 

UH mechanical engineering professor Roland Glowinski was elected to join the membership of the French Academy of Sciences.

The academy, an organization that includes some of the most prominent science scholars, elected 2005 Chemistry Nobel Prize Laureate Yves Chauvin to join their ranks the same day. 

"As evidenced by the Theodore von Kármán Prize I received in 2004 for contributions done the previous 10 years, I'm quite sure my best work ever has been done this last decade and definitely think the work done while at UH is the main reason for my recent election to the French National Academy of Sciences," Glowinski said in a release.

He has received many awards since he began working at the University in 1985, including election to the French National Academy of Technology, induction as a chevalier in the Légion d'Honneur of France and election to the Academia Europaea. 

"Roland Glowinski is one of the world's foremost computational scientists," Jeff Morgan, professor and chair of the mathematics department, said in a release. "He has played a major role in the development of the department of mathematics, as well as the development of computational sciences on the UH campus. I had the privilege to meet him and learn from him when I was a graduate student, and I feel fortunate to call him a friend and colleague."

Glowinski developed mathematical computer simulations for scientific, medical and engineering problems. He researched new mathematical models dealing with mathematical and computational methods to the design heart valves.

Glowinski also helped to write more than 300 scientific articles and holds the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professorship in Mathematics. He is a recipient of the esteemed Esther Farfel Award at UH.

"I found very talented collaborators at UH and a very supportive administration. This combination indeed provides ideal conditions to do good research," Glowinski said in a release.

Before working at UH, Glowinski worked as the director of the French government's institute of computational science.

Glowinski will formally finalize his appointment to the French Academy of Sciences on June 7 at a ceremony in France.

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