Prof. Delfim F.M. Torres

Delfim Fernando Marado Torres is a Portuguese Mathematician born 16 August 1971 in Nampula, Portuguese Mozambique. He obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Aveiro (UA) in 2002, and habilitation in Mathematics, UA, in 2011. He is a full professor of mathematics since 9 March 2015. He has been the Director of the R&D Unit CIDMA, the largest Portuguese research center for mathematics, and Coordinator of its Systems and Control Group. His main research areas are calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization; fractional derivatives and integrals; dynamic equations on time scales; and mathematical biology. Torres has written outstanding scientific and pedagogical publications. In particular, he has co-authored two books with Imperial College Press and three books with Springer. He has strong experience in graduate and post-graduate student supervision and teaching in mathematics. Twenty PhD students in mathematics have successfully finished under his supervision. Moreover, he has been the leading member in several national and international R&D projects, including EU projects and networks. Professor Torres has been, since 2013, the Director of the Doctoral Programme Consortium in Mathematics and Applications (MAP-PDMA) of Universities of Minho, Aveiro, and Porto. Delfim married 2003 and has one daughter and two sons.