Raimondas Čiegis

Raimondas Čiegis is a prominent Lithuanian mathematician serving as Chairman of the Mathematical Sciences Section at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences since 2016. Previously, he spent 16 years (2000-2016) as Head of the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, following 18 years at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (1982-2000). He holds a habilitation in physics (1993) and graduated from Vilnius University (1982).

His research focuses on:

• Numerical methods for nonlinear differential equations
• Parallel computing architectures
• Mathematical modeling of physical systems
• Finite difference schemes for nonlocal boundary problems
• Convergence theory for nonlinear discretizations

He has authored five influential textbooks including Parallel Algorithms (2001) and Numerical Methods for Solving Differential Equations (2003), which are used in advanced computational mathematics education.

Major recognitions:

• Lithuanian Science Prize (1995, shared)
• Lithuanian Science Prize (2017, shared)
• Elected Full Member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (2016)
• Foreign Member of Latvian Academy of Sciences (2017)