President Jan S. Hesthaven

Professor Dr. Jan S. Hesthaven, born in 1965, studied Computational Physics and earned his doctorate at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen. Between 1995 and 2013, he was a faculty member at Brown University in the USA, where he was Founding Director of the Center for Computation and Visualization (2006 to 2013) and co-founder of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics. From 2013, Hesthaven had been Professor of Mathematics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, and from 2021 to 2024, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of EPFL. His scope of responsibility included strong integration of research and academic education, all appointment and promotion procedures, as well as close cooperation with the President of EPFL on the university’s strategic orientation.

Hesthaven is Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the American Mathematical Society, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He also is member of the European Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea. In May 2024, the Technical University of Denmark awarded him an honorary doctorate.

On October 1, 2024, Jan S. Hesthaven took office as President of KIT.

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Email: president∂kit.edu