ICME Director, Margot Gerritsen (right) and Co-director, Gianluca Iaccarino (left) at the Women in Data Science Conference.
Margot Gerritsen
Director, ICME
Senior Associate Dean, Educational Initiatives
Associate Professor, Energy Resources and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering and of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Margot Gerritsen was born and raised in the Netherlands. After receiving her MS degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Delft, she moved to the U.S. in search of hillier and sunnier places. In 1996, Margot received her Ph.D. in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics at Stanford University. Before returning to Stanford in 2001, she spent nearly five years in Auckland, New Zealand as a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Science.
Margot specializes in renewable and fossil energy production. I am also active in coastal ocean dynamics and yacht design, as well as several areas in computational mathematics including search algorithm design and matrix computations.
Gianluca Iaccarino
Co-director, ICME
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Gianluca Iaccarino's research focuses on computer simulations of fluid dynamic problems with applications to energy generation, propulsion, and aerodynamics. Gianluca is interested in uncertainty analysis and computational mathematics. He teaches classes in fluid dynamics, numerical methods, linear algebra and uncertainty analysis.
In addition to ICME, Gianluca is the director of the Exascale Computing Engineering Center, the Thermal Fluid Science Affiliates Program, and the Uncertainty Quantification Laboratory. Gianluca is also an associate editor of the Jorunal of Computational Physics, the Applied Mechanics Review, and Flow, Turbulence and Combustion.
