Paola F. Antonietti (born 1980) is an Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst whose research concerns numerical methods for partial differential equations, and particularly domain decomposition methods, with applications in scientific computing and Applied Sciences such as the computational modelling of neurodegenerative disorders[1] and simulating the propagation of seismic waves.
She earned a laurea cum laude from the University of Pavia in 2003, and continued there for a Ph.D. in 2007.
[3] Her dissertation, Domain decomposition, spectral correctness and numerical testing of discontinuous Galerkin methods, was jointly supervised by Annalisa Buffa and Ilaria Perugia,[4] and included time as a visiting student at the University of Oxford.
She was given tenure as an associate professor in 2015, promoted to full professor in 2019,[3] and was appointed head of the Laboratory of Modeling and Scientific Computing (MOX) by Irene Sabadini in 2023.
[3][2] In 2020, the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) gave her their Jacques-Louis Lions award.