Scientific Interests
Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Systems and Control Theory

Dr. Van Dooren received the IBM-Belgium Informatics Award in 1974, the Householder Award in 1981 and the SIAM Wilkinson Prize of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in 1989. He is a Fellow of IEEE and of SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics). He received the Francqui Chair in Antwerp in 2010 and a Cátedra de Excelencia of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2013, 2017 and in 2019. He is an Associate Editor of several journals in numerical analysis and systems and control theory. His main interests lie in the areas of numerical linear algebra, systems and control theory, and in numerical methods for large graphs and networks.