CCP-DCM Co-Project Lead Patrick E. Farrell has won the Germund Dahlquist Prize fo 2025, bestowed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

The selection committee awarded Professor Farrell of the University of Oxford for ‘broad, creative, and groundbreaking contributions to numerical solutions of partial differential equations, and the design and analysis of algorithms and software for scientific computing’.

Professor Farrell is based in the Numerical Analysis group of the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. For 2025 and 2026, he is also the Donatio Universitatis Carolinæ Chair at Charles University, Prague.

He works on the numerical solution of partial differential equations, with a particular focus on finite element methods, bifurcation analysis of nonlinear PDE, adjoint techniques, their application and automation, preconditioners and fast solvers.

He has applied the numerical techniques he develops to various applications, in the areas of mixtures, renewable energy, cardiac electrophysiology, glaciology, magnetohydrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and liquid crystals.

The prize was established in 1995 and named in honour of Germund Dahlquist for his early contributions to the theory of numerical analysis as applied to differential equations. It is awarded every two years to one individual for original contributions to numerical solution of differential equations and numerical methods for scientific computing.

The Germund Dahlquist Prize includes a $2,000 monetary prize and a certificate. Professor Farrell will collect the award at the 2026 SciCADE conference in Edinburgh, UK.

Professor Farrell said:

“Receiving the Germund Dahlquist prize is a great honour. I would like to thank my students, postdocs, and collaborators for doing this research with me, and my funders for making it possible.”