Paola Goatin awarded “Femme en Or 2016” in the Smart City category

Paola Goatin, native of northeastern Italy, received her PhD in Functional Analysis from the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS) in Trieste (Italy). She arrived in France in 2000 to work within Ecole Polytechnique’s Center in Applied Mathematics. She then became a lecturer (Maître de Conférences) at Toulon University, while joining Inria part-time in 2008 to prepare her “Habilitation à diriger les recherches” (HdR) diploma in Opale project-team, joint with Laboratoire Jean-Alexandre Dieudonné (Nice – Sophia Antipolis University, CNRS). Once achieved this result, in 2010 she applied for the prestigious grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC). During the same period, she applied to work full-time at Inria. The result was a magnificent dual success. Paola was hired as Research Scientist in the Inria Opale project team, while her project “TRAM3 – Traffic Management by Macroscopic Models” was awarded an ERC grant. She obtained a grant of about 800,000 euros for building a team of her choice and running her five-year ambitious research project that involved mathematical modeling of road and pedestrian traffic.

Paola Goatin maintains close scientific relationships with several laboratories abroad, such as the University of California at Berkeley with which she has assembled an Inria@SiliconValley Associate Team (ORESTE) that focuses on the development of redirection strategies for road traffic in real time, based on data observed on the freeways around San Francisco.

Through the multiple interactions and collaboration she maintains, she was received in 2014 the Inria–French Académie des sciences Young Researcher Award.

Paola Goatin is currently a senior researcher at Inria Sophia-Antipolis research center where she leads the ACUMES research team focusing on Analysis and Control of Unsteady Models in Engineering Sciences