Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira (born 1961)[1] is a French applied mathematician specializing in the control theory of partial differential equations.
She is affiliated with the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions of Sorbonne University as an external member,[2] a professor at the University of Lorraine in the mathematics department of its Metz campus,[3] and a former president of the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, a French society for applied mathematics.
She earned a diplôme d'études approfondies in numerical analysis in 1984 at Pierre and Marie Curie University,[1] where she defended her doctoral thesis in 1987 under the supervision of Roland Glowinski.
[1][5] After postdoctoral research as a visiting assistant professor at Arizona State University, she became maître de conferences at the University of Bordeaux 1 in 1988, and earned a habilitation there in 1996.
[1] Alabau was president of the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles from 2014 to 2017.