Alfio Quarteroni is full professor of Numerical Analysis at Politecnico di Milano, and of Modelling and Scientific Computing (CMCS) at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).Since 2002 he is scientific director of MOX – Laboratory for Modeling and Scientific Computing of the Politecnico di Milano. Since 2010 he is director and founder of MATHICSE (Mathematical Institute of Computational Science and Engineering – at EPFL.