Andrea Bertozzi is an applied mathematician with expertise in nonlinear partial differential equations and fluid dynamics. She also works in the areas of geometric methods for image processing, social science modeling, and swarming and cooperative dynamics.
Bertozzi completed all her degrees in mathematics at Princeton University. She was an L.E. Dickson Instructor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago (1991–1995) and the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory (1995–1996). She joined the faculty at Duke University (1995–2004), first as Associate Professor of Mathematics and later as Professor of Mathematics and Physics, where she also served as Director of the Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems.
Bertozzi joined UCLA in 2003 as a Professor of Mathematics. From 2005 to 2025, she served as Director of Applied Mathematics, overseeing UCLA’s graduate and undergraduate research training programs. In 2012, she was appointed the Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity.
Bertozzi has served on the editorial boards of 14 journals, including SIAM Review, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Interfaces and Free Boundaries, Applied Mathematics Research Express, Applied Mathematics Letters, Mathematical Models and Methods in the Applied Sciences (M3AS), Communications in Mathematical Sciences, Nonlinearity, Advances in Differential Equations, Journal of Nonlinear Science, Journal of Statistical Physics, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, and the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.
She has held leadership and advisory roles across several national and international institutions, including Chair of the Science Board of the NSF Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University (2010–2014), member of the Science Advisory Committee of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) at UC Berkeley (2012–2016), and service on the board of the Banff International Research Station.
To date, she has graduated 58 Ph.D. students and mentored more than 50 postdoctoral scholars.
Honors & Awards
- Sloan Research Fellowship, 1995
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 1996
- Kovalevsky Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2009
- Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
- Elected Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2010
- Elected Fellow, American Mathematical Society, 2013
- Elected Fellow, American Physical Society, 2016
- SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (with Arjuna Flenner), 2014
- Highly Cited Researcher in Mathematics, Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics, 2015–2016
- Simons Math + X Investigator Award, in partnership with UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), 2017
- Elected Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2018
- Kleinman Prize, SIAM, 2019
- UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honor Society, 2023
