Giovanni FantuzziView profile
Assistant Professor
Giovanni Fantuzzi serves as a W1 Professor (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in the Department of Mathematics at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He leads research within the FAU DCN-AvH Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics under the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship framework, holding office in Room 03.318 with contact details including giovanni.fantuzzi@fau.de and +49 9131 85-67134. His educational background includes a PhD and Master of Engineering in Aeronautics from Imperial College London, supplemented by a research position in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford during his doctoral studies. Key academic milestones are documented through his ORCID, Google Scholar, and LinkedIn profiles. Fantuzzi's research program integrates mathematical analysis with computational optimization to solve nonlinear differential equations, focusing on deriving a priori scaling laws for heat transport and developing provable numerical schemes for PDE-constrained optimization. His methodology bridges convex optimization, polynomial optimization, and dynamical systems theory, with recent applications extending to transformer neural networks and sentiment analysis through hardmax mechanisms. Current teaching includes Data-driven methods for dynamical systems and Polynomial optimization and applications for WS 24/25. Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals dominant trends in fluid mechanics (particularly convection and heat transfer), polynomial optimization techniques, and data-driven dynamical systems analysis. His work consistently applies convex optimization frameworks to derive rigorous bounds in physical systems while expanding into machine learning applications like transformer model analysis. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship at WHOI (2015) EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship (2018) Imperial College Research Fellowship Fantuzzi's research program is supported by prestigious fellowships including the Imperial College Research Fellowship and EPSRC Doctoral Prize. His academic service includes organizing the FAU MoD Lecture & Workshop on AI for maths and maths for AI (June 2025) and co-hosting the #MLPDES25 Machine Learning and PDEs Workshop. He actively supervises research within the FAU DCN-AvH group, focusing on polynomial optimization applications in dynamical systems and PDEs. As core faculty in the FAU DCN-AvH Chair, Fantuzzi collaborates within a multidisciplinary team specializing in dynamics, control, machine learning, and numerical methods. The group maintains strong international connections through workshops like the Oberwolfach Seminar on Polynomial Optimization for Nonlinear Dynamics and participates in conferences including CIN-PDE and Nečas Seminar on Continuum Mechanics, driving innovation at the intersection of mathematics and computational physics.
