New Young Research Fellow Elena Demattè

We are delighted that Elena Demattè joins Mathematics Münster as a Young Research Fellow. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. Her research interests cover a broad range of problems in partial differential equations and partial integro-differential equations. A main focus of her research is the radiative transfer equation and systems of Boltzmann equations. Among her recent projects are the Navier-Slip thin-film equation in the perfect wetting regime and inverse problems.

In January 2026, she was awarded the Hausdorff Memorial Prize for the best dissertation in mathematics. In her dissertation "The mathematical properties of the radiative transfer equation", supervised by Juan J. L. Velázquez at the University of Bonn, she examined the so-called radiative transfer equation. The selection committee stated that the thesis contains a remarkable number of new results and also opens up interesting classes of problems in the field of partial differential equations, in which new phenomena are to be expected.

During her time in Münster, which will last until the end of November 2026, she plans to work with Prof. Dr. Angela Stevens on kinetic equations in the life sciences as they occur in epidemiology and cell motion on networks of filaments.

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Mathematics Münster’s programme for Young Research Fellows