About

Patricio Farrell is a mathematician, specializing in numerical methods for science and engineering. He heads the research group Numerical methods for innovative semiconductor devices at WIAS Berlin and works as a journalist. He is also a scientific ambassador for the Senate of Berlin within Brain City Berlin. In November 2023, the business magazine Capital voted Patricio Farrell among their "Top 40 under 40".

CV

• Research group leader in mathematics, WIAS Berlin
• Privatdozent & Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin
• Visiting professor at SISSA, Inria Lille, University of Florence
• Fixed-term professor, Hamburg University of Technology
• Research associate, WIAS Berlin
• PhD, University of Oxford
• Diplom, University of Hamburg and University of Bath

Grants

• Research group Numerical methods for innovative semiconductor devices (€1,000,000)
• Associated partner within Excellence in Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers (PCSELence)
• PI within the MATH+ projects:
  • PaA-1: Electronics of Nanostructured Perovskite Devices (€140,000)
  • A2-10: Electro-Mechanical Coupling for Semiconductor Devices (€140,000)
  • IN-11: Identifying and Efficiently Computing Band-Edge Energies for Charge Transport Simulations in Strained Materials (€70,000)
  • IN-B3: Understanding doping variations in silicon crystals (€70,000)

Activities

• Editor of Open Mathematics (De Gruyter)
• Official mentor within Berlin Mathematical School and WIAS
• ECMI special interest group Modeling, Simulation and Optimization in Electrical Engineering
• KoMSO, ECMI, SIAM and SIAM CSE member
• Scientific ambassador for Brain City Berlin