CV Mario Primicerio Studies Birth date: 13 November 1940 Birth place: Rome (Italy) Married, 1 son Degree in Physics (Laurea), University of Florence, November 1962 Military Service: Military Geographic Institute (Oct. 1967, Dec. 1968). University Positions Researcher (1963) at the Ionized Gases Laboratory, Frascati (Rome) Assistant Professor (since 1967) and Associate Professor (since 1970) at the University of Florence Full Professor ( Rational Mechanics and Applied Mathematics) at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Florence (since 1975). Emeritus Professor (since 2012) Academic duties Chairman of the Corso di Laurea in Matematica (1978-79) Adjoint of the Rector for the International Relationships of the University (1983-1991) Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (1984-87) Member of the Governing Board of the Department of Mathematics (1990-95) Chairman of the Graduate School in Mathematics 1993-95 and 2002-2010 Direction and/or co-direction of major research projects U.S.A.E.R.O.: "Free Boundary Problems in Diffusion with Mass Transfer" (1982-84) European Community: "Mathematical Models of Phase Transitions and Numerical Simulation" (1987-88) SNAMPROGETTI/ENIRICERCHE/University of Florence: "Rheology of Concentrated Coal-Water Suspensions" (1988-1992) C.N.R. : "Nonlinear Filtration and Applications" (1990-91) European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry: "Mathematical Models for
Percolation of Coffee" (1991-96 ) U.S.A.E.R.O.: "Ground freezing" (1992-95) European Science Foundation: "Free Boundary Problems and Applications" (1993-1999) Agenzia 2000 CNR: "Nonlinear Diffusion and Applications" (2000-2003) AGIP: "Flow assurance and waxy crude oils " (2003-2009) European Union: "New and Emerging Themes in Industrial and Applied Mathematics " (2004-2007) Italy-Spain Integrated Actions: "Mathematical Models for the Diffusion of Criminality in Urban Areas " (2007-2010) European Science Foundation:"Mathematics in Industry" (2008-2011) Tuscan Regional Government: "SID&GRID: water resources management " (2010-2012) Foundation for Research and Innovation: "CREA: beneficiation of mine drainage " (2010-2012) International Conferences and Courses organized and/or coorganized Symposium on "Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications" (1981) Workshop on "Solidification of Binary Alloys" (1985) CIME Course on "Nonlinear Diffusion" (1986) CIRM Course on "Mathematical Problems in Environmental Protection and Ecology" (1991) ECMI Conference (1993) Euromech 333 on "Filtration in Porous Media" (1995) SIMAI 2002 SIMAI 2004 NEST Conference on "Mathematical Criminology " Bilateral Conference SIMAI-JSIAM 2006 SIMAI-SMAI-SMF-UMI Congress 2006 Italian-Latinoamerican Conference in Applied Mathematics 2007 SIMAI - SIAM Conference 2008 Other activities Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews Reviewer of Zentralblatt fur Mathematik Referee for evaluation of research projects (National Science Foundation-USA; Conseil National Recherche Scientifique- France; CODEST - European Community;
Jacob Blaustein Center -Israel; Centres of Excellence Program - Japan; Third World Academy of Sciences) Member of Commitees for Ph.D. examinations in Paris, Delft, Augsburg, Madrid, Bremen Member of the Evaluation Committee I.M.A. Minneapolis - I.A.C. Rome NATO Senior Fellow at Austin, Texas, USA Christensen Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, U.K. Vice President of the Italian Commission for UNESCO Socio of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Socio of the Accademia della Colombaria Mayor of Firenze (1995-1999) President of I2T3 (Industrial Innovation Through Technological Transfer) Member of the Board of Administration of the Florence Foundation for Research and Innovation Chair of the Applied Mathematics Committee of the European Mathematical Society (2005-2011) Member of the Panel of Evaluation of the Starting Grants in Mathematics of the European Research Council Officer of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2007-2015) Member of Scientific Committees A) National Gruppo Nazionale Fisica Matematica (CNR): 1982-85 Unione Matematica Italiana: 1981-84 and 1988-94 Centro Italiano Matematico Estivo: 1981-90 Istituto Analisi Numerica Pavia: 1992-95 Italian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SIMAI (2001 2012) Program Committee for AIMETA Conference Pisa 1989 Organizing Committee for European Consortium of Mathematics in Industry Conferences Program Committee for SIMAI Conferences from 1992 to 2010 B) International European Liaison Committee for Free Boundary Problems: 1980-2000 School of Advanced Studies in Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1992-1996 Program Committee of the International Conference in Applied Mathematics ICIAM 1995 Program Committee of the International Conference "Free Boundaries" Bled 1995 Program Committee of the Italian - Latinoamerican Conferences in Applied
Mathematics ITLA 1995, ITLA 2000, ITLA 2004,ITLA2007, ITLA2012 Scientific Committee of the Brazilian-Italian Congress of Mathematics (2015-2016) Prize Committee for ICIAM2007, EMS2016 Chair of the Scientific Committee for the ESF Forward Look "Mathematics and Industry" Chait of the Executive Committee of the European network EU-MATHS-IN for industrial mathematics Scientific Societies SIMAI (Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale) President UMI (Unione Matematica Italiana) AIMETA (Associazione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica e Applicata) GNFM (Gruppo Nazionale Fisica Matematica) EMS (European Mathematical Society) Member of Editorial Boards Bollettino Unione Matematica Italiana (1985-88) I.M.A. Journal of Applied Mathematics (1985-89) European Journal of Applied Mathematics (1990-1995, and 2004- ) Meccanica (1990-1996 ) Advances in Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Tokyo (1991- ) Communications in Applied Analysis (1996- ) Interfaces and Free Boundaries (1999-2002) Rendiconti Lincei Matematica e Applicazioni RLM (1992-) SIMAI e-lecture Notes (2007-) Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies (2008-) Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics(2010-) Journal of Mathematics in Industry (2011-) Encyclopedia of Mathematics (2011-) International Mathematical Journal for Science (2011-) Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2011-) Journal of Applied Mathematics (2012-2017) Acque sotterranee-italian Journal of Groundwater (2012-)
Scientific Visits (2 weeks and more) Austin, USA (NATO Senior Fellow); Beijing, China (Lecturer at Ph.D. course Tsinghua University); Chiba, Japan; Helsinki, Finland (Graduate Course taught at Rolf Nevannlinna Institute); Minneapolis, USA (Institute for Mathematics and Applications); Novosibirsk, Russia (Lavrentiev Institute of Hydrodymanics); Oxford, U.K. (Christensen Fellow); Paris, France (Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées); Sao Carlos, Brazil (and other Brazilian universities); Rosario, Argentina (Lecturer at the Free Boundary Seminar); Tel Aviv, Israel. Invited lectures at Conferences and Short Visits San Diego, Claremont, Gatlinburg, Stony Brook, Princeton, Honolulu, Evanston, Laurel, New Orleans, Tampa, Vancouver, London, Durham, Brighton, Edinburgh, Metz, Maubuisson, Nice, Caen, Nancy, Irsee, Oberwolfach, Neustadt, Berlin, Augsburg, Munchen, Beersheva, Montreal, Jyvaskyla, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Tokyo, Kyoto, Madrid, Granada, Jerusalem, Lisboa, Salta, Buenos Aires, Leiden, Delft, Algiers.