George Haller - Biography#

George Haller is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zürich, where he holds the Chair in Nonlinear Dynamics and heads the Institute for Mechanical Systems. His prior appointments include tenured faculty positions at Brown, McGill and MIT. He also served as the inaugural director of Morgan Stanley’s Fixed Income Modelling Center.

Haller is a recipient of a Sloan Fellowship in mathematics, an ASME Thomas Hughes Young Investigator Award, a School of Engineering Distinguished Professorship (McGill), the Stanley Corrsin Award of the APS, and the Lyapunov Award of the ASME. He is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Science and an elected fellow of ASME, SIAM, APS and AAIA.

He currently serves as Feature Editor at Nonlinear Dynamics, Senior Editor at the Journal of Nonlinear Science, and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Haller's research focuses on nonlinear dynamical systems with applications to mechanical vibrations, coherent structures in turbulence, model reduction and data-driven nonlinear modelling for physical systems. He is the single author of three books in these areas.

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