Laura Grigori

Prof. Laura Grigori holds the chair of high-performance numerical algorithms and simulation at Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and is the Head of the Laboratory for Simulation and Modelling at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. She has received a PhD in computer science from the Henri Poincaré
University, INRIA Lorraine (2001). After spending two years at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher, she joined INRIA (2004-23). Prof. Grigori also led Alpines group, a joint group between INRIA and J.L. Lions Laboratory, Sorbonne University, France (2013-23). She has spent two sabbaticals at UC Berkeley as a visiting professor. Her field of expertise is numerical linear, multilinear algebra, and high-performance scientific
computing for challenging applications ranging from astrophysics to molecular simulations. Prof. Grigori was named a 2020 SIAM Fellow, and she is the recipient of the SIAM Supercomputing Career
Prize in 2024 and of an ERC Synergy Grant (2018). For her work on communication avoiding algorithms, she and her co-authors were awarded the 2016 SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing Best Paper Prize for the most outstanding paper published in a refereed journal in the field of high-performance computing.