Carlos Garcia-Cervera

Carlos Garcia-Cervera is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the College of Letters and Science. He holds a B.S. from Universitat de València (1994) and a Ph.D. from New York University's Courant Institute (1999). His research focuses on nonlinear PDEs, materials science, and computational physics, particularly in micromagnetics, liquid crystals, and electronic structure theory.

Key roles include Vice-Chair of the UCSB Mathematics Department (2009-2015) and leadership in NSF-funded initiatives like the IGERT program in Computational Science and Engineering. Notable awards include the NSF CAREER Award (2007-2012) and Bizkaia Talent Award (2014-2016).

Research interests span: 1) Micromagnetics (domain wall dynamics, spin-polarized transport), 2) Liquid crystals (smectic phases, magnetic field effects), 3) Polymers (block copolymer self-assembly), and 4) Electronic structure methods (orbital-free DFT, multiscale modeling). Over 150 publications include seminal work on micromagnetic simulations and smectic A layer undulations.

Advised 14 Ph.D. students and supervised 6 postdocs. Active in professional societies (AMS, SIAM) and editorial work. Current projects include magnetoelectric nanodevices and physics-informed neural networks for PDE control.