Elena Beretta
Clinical Professor of Mathematics
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD Universite de Lorraine France
Research Areas: Applied mathematics, mathematical modeling, differential equations, inverse problems, medical imaging, algorithms, machine learning
Elena Beretta is a Clinical Professor of Mathematics at New York University Abu Dhabi. Before joining New York University Abu Dhabi, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" until 2013 and at Politecnico of Milan until 2021. In 2012, she was promoted to Full Professor by the Italian Ministry of Research. Her research interests focus on inverse problems for partial differential equations with applications to geophysics, seismology, medical imaging, and nondestructive testing of materials. She conducted studies in research centers and foreign universities, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm, the Schrodinger Institute in Wien, Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, ICERM Institute in Providence, and Rutgers University in New Jersey. From 2026-2029, she has been a nominated member of the Scientific Committee of the Banach Center. She is on the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, SIAM Journal on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Inverse Problems and Imaging, and Inverse Problems. She has been a plenary speaker at several international conferences on inverse problems. She has directed several research projects and has organized several workshops and conferences. She has 78 articles published in peer-reviewed journals.