Born 3 August 1951 in Nice (France), French
Degrees
- Master of Engineering (M. E.)
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Toulouse, France (1974)
- Master of Sciences (M. S.)
Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University (1976)
(Thesis: Over-relaxation applied to the MacCormack finite-difference
scheme to solve fluid-flow problem; advisor : Prof. John C. Tannehill)
- Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph. D.)
Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University (1978)
(Dissertation:
On improving the iterative convergence properties of an implicit approximate-factorization finite-difference algorithm;
advisors : Prof. John C. Tannehill at ISU, Joseph L. Steger at NASA Ames R. C.)
- Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HdR Sciences)
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (1993)
(Thesis: Construction and analysis of algorithms for compressible-flow simulation)
Appointments
- 1974 - 1978 :
Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Department, Iowa State University (USA)
- 1978 - 1979 :
Service National
Ecole de l'Air, Salon de Provence (France)
- 1980 - 1981 :
Post-Doctoral Fellow (National Research Council Associate)
Computational Fluid Dynamics Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, Ames, California, USA
(Topic : multigrid and algebraic preconditioning - Director: Harvard Lomax)
- 1983 - 1986 :
Chargé de Recherche, 1ère classe
Project-Team Sinus,
INRIA Sophia Antipolis Centre
- 1986 :
Directeur de Recherche, 2e classe
- 1996 - 2001 :
INRIA Project-Team Sinus, Head
- 2002 - on :
INRIA Project-Team Opale Founder and Head
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- 2005 - 2019 :
Directeur de Recherche, 1ère classe
- 2007 - 2016 :
ONERA Consultant
DSNA (Numerical Simulation and Aeroacoustics Department, Châtillon)
and DAAP (Applied Aerodynamics Department, Meudon)
- 4 June 2019 - on :
Directeur de Recherche, emeritus
Award
- Co-awardee of the Seymour Cray 1st prize with A.Dervieux, L. Fezoui, H. Guillard and B. Larrouturou (1991)
INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée Centre, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis (FRANCE) -
Tel : (+33) 4 92 38 77 93 - Fax : (+33) 4 92 38 79 80
Jean-Antoine.Desideri(at)inria.fr