The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain), founded in 1980, is a public research university that sets out to create knowledge and convey it to society amid an intense process of globalization, which is compatible with close links to Basque culture. The UPV/EHU is a pioneer of dual qualifications, a model that has been developing and extending to a number of different areas of knowledge. Its objective is to combine the acquisition of business skills with the competence acquired at the university. Moreover, thanks to 5,000 agreements with businesses, associations, and institutions, each year the UPV/EHU offers more than 11,000 internships with companies, associations, and public authorities. 

David Pardo (IN-DEEP PI) is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM). In 2011 he was awarded the prize of the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics for Young Researchers. He is an expert in numerical methods for forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations, including deep learning, that mathematically model natural and artificial phenomena. He has published over 150 research articles and given over 260 presentations.  He has ample experience working with companies in transfer of mathematical technology. 

The University of Pavia (UniPV, Pavia, Italy) is one of the world’s oldest academic institutions, with its foundations as early as the 9th Century. Internationalization is one of the core concepts of the University of Pavia, with an increasing presence in the international higher education arena. UniPV participates in more than 400 international agreements with universities worldwide, and it actively promotes research in collaboration with the world’s most prestigious academic institutions.

Alessandro Reali (IN-DEEP PI at UniPV) is a Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at UniPV. His main research topics are Computational Mechanics of Solids, Structures, Fluids, and Fluid-Structure Interactions with applications ranging from Mechanical and Civil Engineering to Bioengineering and Medical Sciences. On these topics, he has been coordintaed many international and national projects, including an ERC project. He has been listed Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate/ISI for five years and has received many prestigious awards, including among others, the Euler Medal from ECCOMAS, the Finzi Prize from Istituto Lombardo, the Fellows Award from IACM, the Fischer Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Study of the Technical University of Munich, the Argyris Awad from IACM, the Zienkiewicz Award from ECCOMAS, the AIMETA Junior Prize from AIMETA.

Giancarlo Sangalli is a Full Professor of Numerical Analysis at UniPV, and a research associate of CNR-IMATI "E. Magenes". Sangalli's research interests are in the field of numerical methods for partial differential equations. He has worked on multiscale numerical methods, domain decomposition methods, stabilized finite element methods, and, more recently, on isogeometric analysis (error analysis and well-posedness of the method, design of unstructured isogeometric spaces, construction of isogeometric differential forms, quadrature and efficient solvers). On these topics, he has coordinated national (FIRB) and European (ERC) projects, as well as research projects in collaboration with industry. Sangalli is a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He has published over 150 JCR articles.

Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens, Leuven, Belgium)  originated as LMS International, one of the first spin-offs of KU Leuven, and currently constitutes the Simulation and Test Solutions (STS) segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software. The Simcenter portfolio includes a complete suite for test-based engineering (Simcenter Testlab), an integrated 3D simulation and analysis platform (Simcenter 3D), a powerful design space exploration software package (Simcenter HEEDS) and a multi-disciplinary system performance simulation platform (Simcenter System Simulations), complemented by Simcenter Engineering Services, that support customers throughout the product development cycle with its unique combination of engineering skills, development experience, and process know-how.

Gwendal Jouan  (IN-DEEP PI at Siemens) completed a joint Ph.D. from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) and the University of Liège (Belgium) in 2014 on the topic of damage and fracture modelling. He worked as a researcher (Postdoc) for two years for the University of Liège and Ecole Centrale de Nantes, where he tutored Masters and Ph.D. students. He also completed a Master of Mathematics with a specialization in Statistics and Machine Learning from Université Paris-Saclay in 2020. He is currently working at Siemens Industry Software as a Research Engineer, in the research and development department for 3D simulations, with a focus on novel techniques linking traditional simulation tools and Machine Learning techniques.

The Polytechnic University of Turin (POLITO) is among the top Engineering and Technology universities in the world, the 39th according to the QS University Rankings 2021 by broad Subject, the 34th in Architecture and Built Environment, 33rd for Civil and Structural Engineering, and 30th in Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Manufacturing by Subject. In 2017 was the 1st one in the Graduate Employability Ranking. In November 2013 POLITO has been acknowledged by the EU Commission for its commitment to the implementation of the EU Charter for Researchers and a Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers through the 'HR Excellence in Research award'. It has a yearly budget of about €300 million and over 37,000 students enrolled in academic courses (19% are international students).

Stefano Berrone (IN-DEEP PI at POLITO) is a Full Professor in Numerical Analysis, and Chair of the Education Program in Mathematical Engineering (BSc and MSc) of POLITO. He is an expert in numerical methods for solving PDEs for different kinds of applications and geophysical problems. He is the author of tailored methods for problems in extremely complex geometries developed to deal with very large-scale problems through High Performace Computing tools characterized by optimal parallel efficiency. Dealing with geophysical applications he started to investigate Machine Learning methods to speed up uncertainty quantification analyses with particular attention to explainable artificial intelligence. 

Claudio Canuto is a Full Professor of Numerical Analysis since 1986, currently at POLITO. His scientific work addresses discretization methods for partial differential problems, with a particular emphasis on high-order methods, multi-level methods, adaptive methods, and applications to Fluid Dynamics. His three books on the subject (1988, 2006, 2007) are by now a standard reference in the international literature (over 7,500 citations on Google Scholar). For his activity in this field, he received in 1992 the “NASA Group Achievement Award for the pioneering work in Computational Fluid Dynamics”.

The University of Nottingham (UoN, Nottingham, UK) was founded in 1928, with the vision of a university devoted to the discovery, enterprise, and advancement of the human condition, combined with its lifelong commitment to improving health and wellbeing, remains intrinsic to the culture of the University today and will continue to underpin its future purpose. UoN has inspiring campuses in three countries, whose mission is to empower and support students and staff to collaborate in learning, scholarship, and discovery across all realms of knowledge, solving problems and improving lives, and be the stewards of a pioneering and entrepreneurial tradition of creativity and innovation.

Kristoffer Van der Zee (IN-DEEP PI at UoN) is a Full Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on the development and analysis of models and computational methods in the applied sciences and engineering. He has pioneered the research on optimal numerical techniques for multi-physics problems, goal-oriented adaptive methodologies, and phase-field models for multi-component reacting materials and growth phenomena, summarized in the Encyclopedia for Computational Mechanics contribution on computational phase-field modelling. More recently, he has erected a ground-breaking discretization framework based on a  minimal-residual principle providing a unified approach to guaranteed-stable and optimally-convergent numerical approximations in Banach spaces. He has published over 75 JCR articles.

The University of Florence (UNIFI) is is one of the largest research and higher education organisations in Italy, with 1,800 structured lecturers and researchers, around 1,600 technical and administrative staff, and over 1,600 doctoral and post-doctoral students. It fosters cooperation with academic and research institutions all over the world and welcomes foreign teaching staff, researchers and students to promote cultural and scientific internationalization. It traditionally devotes particular attention to the development of collaborative relationships with foreign universities and to the process of internationalization, which has become a strategic and dominant aspect of the life of the university in research, teaching, the organization of study programmes, mobility of teachers, researchers and students. For these reasons, the University of Florence qualifies itself as one of the privileged destinations for international guests.

Carlotta Giannelli (IN-DEEP PI at UNIFI) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and a key member of the Florence Center for Data Science at UNIFI. She is an expert in geometric and mathematical modeling. Her research interests encompass Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD), Isogeometric analysis, and Approximation theory, reflecting her commitment to advancing computational techniques in mathematical sciences. With a strong dedication to mentorship, she has supervised numerous students and postdoctoral fellows, nurturing the next generation of scholars. Her supervisory roles range from guiding Master and PhD students to overseeing postdoctoral research projects across top institutions. Her publication record comprises over 70 research articles.