Education:
Ph.D, D.Sc., Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland

Research Interests:

• Applied Functional Analysis
• Adaptive Finite and Boundary Element Methods
• Computational Wave Propagation
• Computational Solid and Fluid Mechanics

Dr. Demkowicz authored a monograph on adaptive methods (in Polish, 1986), co-authored with J.T. Oden a textbook on Functional Analysis (CRS Press, 1996, 2010, 2017) , a two-volume monograph on “Computing with hp-Adaptive Finite Elements” (Chapman \& Hall/CRC, 2006,2007), “Lecture Notes on Energy Spaces” (Austin 2018), “The Mathematical Theory of Finite Elements” (SIAM 2024), and “Lecture Notes on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering” (Austin 2024). He has authored and co-authored over 250 journal articles an other publications in the general area of computational mathematics and mechanics.

His work and scientific interests span across numerical analysis, adaptive finite element methods, wave propagation problems, including acoustics, elastodynamics and electromagnetics, and CFD. In the last decade  his work focused mainly on the Discontinuous Petrov Galerkin Method, co-invented with Jay Gopalakrishnan from Portland State University. His recent research has been sponsored by NSF, Air Force, Navy, Army, DOE and Sandia Labs.

For his research on higher order methods, he has been awarded Zienkiewicz Medal by PACM,  Computational Science Award by USACM, ICES Distinguished Research Award, and the Computational Mechanics Award by IACM in 2014. He is a Fellow of both IACM and USACM and an honorary member of PACM.  Since 2014, he is a foreign member of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has recently been elected to the EC of IACM (2024-2030).

He has graduated 25 Ph.D. and 7 M.S. students, and is currently supervising 2 Ph.D. students.

Related Websites

• Dr. Demkowicz's Website
• Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences