Leopoldo Penna Franca, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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mathematician
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Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
About Leopoldo Penna Franca
- Leopoldo Penna Franca (born April 7, 1959 died September 19, 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a Brazilian-American mathematician.
- He received his PhD in 1987 from Stanford University in Engineering under Thomas J.
- R.
- Hughes.
- After graduation, he worked at the pt:Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica - LNCC in Brazil.
- From 1993 to 2011, he was a full Professor and Researcher of Mathematics at the University of Colorado Denver.
- From 2008 to 2010 he was a visiting Professor and Researcher of Mathematics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ / Coppe at the Civil Engineering Department in collaboration to Alvaro Coutinho.
- From 2011 until 2012, he worked for IBM Research Brazil.
- He was known for his work on stabilized finite element methods.
- He was a recipient of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics - USACM.
- Received in 1999 the Gallagher Young Investigator Award for "outstanding accomplishments in computational mechanics, particularly in the published literature, by a researcher 40 years old or younger".
- He was listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.
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