George Haller#
| Membership Number: | 7409 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Affiliated section(s): | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://imes.ethz.ch/the-institute/people/Prof-Dr-George-Haller.html |
| X: | @GeorgeHallerETH |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-haller-624216/ |
| Publication Link: | https://georgehaller.com/publications/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - present Member, Board of Trustees, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- 2025 - present Head, Institute of Mechanical Systems, ETH Zürich
- 2024 - present Affiliated Professor, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich
- 2012 - present Chaired Professor in Nonlinear Dynamics, ETH Zürich
- 2009 - 2012 Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Professor, McGill University
- 2009 - 2011 Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University
- 2006 - 2009 Executive Director, Head of the Fixed Income Modeling Center, Morgan Stanley,
- 2001 - 2007 Tenured Associate Professor then Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
- 1994 - 2001 Assistant Professor then Tenured Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
- 1993 - 1994 Visiting Member, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Fields of Scholarship
- Data-driven modeling
- Model reduction
- Dynamical systems
- Nonlinear mechanical oscillations
- Lagrangian transport and mixing
- Turbulence and coherent structures in fluid flows
Honours and Awards
- 1996 J. Manning Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics
- 1997 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics
- 2003 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Fellow
- 2005 ASME Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator
- 2007 SCI Institute Distinguished Lecturer, University of Utah
- 2007 Plenary lecturer, SIAM Conf. on Applications of Dynamical Systems
- 2008 Honorary Doctorate, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- 2009 - 2012 Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Professor, McGill University
- 2013 Plenary lecturer, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIM)
- 2016 Sectional lecturer, 24th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM)
- 2017 Closing plenary lecturer, European Nonlinear Oscillations Conference (ENOC)
- 2019 External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
- 2020 Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- 2021 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2022 - 2023 Midwest Mechanics Lecturer
- 2023 Stanley Corrsin Award (for particularly influential contribution to fundamental fluid dynamics), American Physical Society (APS)
- 2024 Plenary lecturer, Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- 2024 Fellow of the Asian-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
- 2025 Lyapunov Award (for life-long contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
