Tudor Ratiu

Tudor Ratiu is a Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2016–present), Honorary Professor (emeritus) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (2015–present), and affiliated with the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His academic career includes prior roles as Professor of Mathematics at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (2014–2015), Director at the Bernoulli Center (2002–2014), and Chaired Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (1998–2015). He also served as Professor and Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1988–2001), and in faculty positions at the University of Arizona and University of Michigan.

He earned a Ph.D. (1980) from the University of California, Berkeley, M.A. (1974) and B.Sc. (1973) from the West University of Timisoara, Romania, and a high school diploma from the Nikolaus Lenau German High School (1969).

• Research Interests: Stability theory, reduction theory, geometric mechanics, Hamiltonian dynamics, variational integrators, bifurcation theory, stochastic mechanics, and integrable systems (finite/infinite dimensional).

Scientific Honors & Fellowships

• Magnolia Award (2018), Shanghai, China
• 1000 Talent Prize (2017), Shanghai, China
• Tullio Levi-Civita Prize (2016), Rome, Italy
• Excellence in Sciences (2015), American-Romanian Academy
• American Mathematical Society Fellow (2012)
• Russian Megagrant (2011–2013)
• Romanian National Academy Award (2009)
• Medal 'Star of Romania' (2003)
• Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize (2000)
• Humboldt Senior Professorship (1997)
• Fulbright Fellow (1994–1995)
• Miller Research Professor (1994)
• A.P. Sloan Fellow (1984–1987)
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (1983–1986)

Academic Service: Vice Dean at SJTU's School of Mathematical Sciences, Chair/Vice-Chair at UCSC's Department of Mathematics, co-founder of the Bernoulli Center (EPFL) and Skoltech, organizer of 31 international conferences, and editor of 13 journals and 6 volumes. He has served on 43 doctoral/habilitation thesis committees and grant/hiring panels globally.