Fatiha Alabau
Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira (born 1961) is a French applied mathematician specializing in the control theory of partial differential equations. She is affiliated with the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions of Sorbonne University as an external member, a professor at the University of Lorraine in the mathematics department of its Metz campus, and a former president of the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, a French society for applied mathematics. Education and career. Alabau was born 27 August 1961 in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise. She earned a diplôme d'études approfondies in numerical analysis in 1984 at Pierre and Marie Curie University , where she defended her doctoral thesis in 1987 under the supervision of Roland Glowinski. After postdoctoral research as a visiting assistant professor at Arizona State University, she became maître de conferences at the University of Bordeaux 1 in 1988, and earned a habilitation there in 1996. She became a professor at Louis Pasteur University in 1997, and moved to Paul Verlaine University – Metz (which later became part of the University of Lorraine) in 1999. Service and recognition. Alabau was president of the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles from 2014 to 2017.