Prof. Dr. Giovanni Fantuzzi
Email • PhD in Aeronautics, Imperial College
Optimization, dynamical systems, fluid mechanics, and partial differential equations (PDEs)
W1 Professor | Senior Scientist
Room 03.318 | FAU DCN-AvH, Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
FAU MoD member, Research Center for Mathematics of Data
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Department Mathematik
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I am a W1 Professor in the Department of Mathematics at FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Before joining FAU, I held an Imperial College Research Fellowship in the Department of Aeronautics, where I also received a PhD and a Master Eng. in Aeronautics degrees.
Alongside my PhD, I held a research position in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.
I was awarded a Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship at WHOI (2015) and an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship (2018).
• PhD Thesis: Construction of optimal background fields using semidefinite programming (May 2018)
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Research interests
My work spans optimization, dynamical systems, fluid mechanics, and partial differential equations (PDEs).
In particular, I seek to study nonlinear differential equations using a mix of mathematical analysis and numerical tools for convex optimization.
I used this multidisciplinary approach to derive a priori scaling laws for heat transport problems and, more recently, to construct numerical schemes that provably approximate global optimizers of nonlinear PDE-constrained problems.
I am also interested in developing fast algorithms for large-scale optimization problems with structure, especially conic problems and polynomial optimization problems.
Projects
• Moment-sum-of-squares optimization for network dynamics (2026 – 2028)
• DTN ModConFlex. Modelling and control of flexible structures interacting with fluids (2023 – 2027)
Awards
• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship (2015) WHOI
• EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship (2018) Imperial College London
Academy
• WS 2026/27: CEP1, Mathematics for Engineers I (2026 – 2027)
• SS 26: Probability and stochastic processes (2026)
• SS 26: Polynomial optimization and applications (2026)
• SS 26: Mathematics for Engineers II (2026)
• SS 26: CEP1, Mathematics for Engineers I (2026)
• SS 26: Data-driven methods for dynamical systems (2026)
• SS 26: COA, Conic Optimization and Applications (2026)
• WS 25/26: CEP1, Mathematics for Engineers I (2025 – 2026)
• SS 25: Mathematics for Engineers II (2025)
• WS 24/25: Data-driven methods for dynamical systems (2024 – 2025)
• WS 24/25: Polynomial optimization and applications (2024 – 2025)
• WS 23/24: Data-driven methods for dynamical systems (2023 – 2024)
• WS 23/24: Polynomial optimization and applications (2023 – 2024)
• WS 22/23: Conic Optimization and Applications. Lectures and exercises (2022 – 2023)
• WS 22/23: Mathematik für Ingenieure B1. Exercise class in English (2022 – 2023)
Posts on Math & Research
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Sentiment Analysis with Transformers
Authors: Albert Alcalde, Giovanni Fantuzzi
Date: November 14, 2025
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News / Initiatives
Lyapunov meets Koopman: a new approach to data-driven analysis of nonlinear dynamics. FAU MoD Workshop, Erlangen – Bavaria (Germany)
Authors: Giovanni Fantuzzi
Date: December 10, 2025
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Sentimentanalyse mit Transformern in Aktion. #NdW25 Long Night Sciences
Authors: Giovanni Fantuzzi, Albert Alcalde
Date: October 25, 2025
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Exact sequence prediction with transformers. FAU MoD Lecture & Workshop: AI for maths and maths for AI
Authors: François Charton, Giovanni Fantuzzi
Date: June 24, 2025
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#MLPDES25. Data-driven system analysis: Polynomial optimization meets Koopman Machine Learning and PDEs Workshop (2025)
Authors: Giovanni Fantuzzi (speaker)
Date: April 28 – 30, 2025
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Data-driven system analysis: Polynomial optimization meets Koopman. IMC Seminar (UC Chile University)
Authors: Giovanni Fantuzzi
Date: October 30, 2024
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Clustering in Pure-attention Hardmax Transformers and Its Role in Sentiment Analysis. Conference on Control, Inversion and Numerics for PDEs. Fudan University (Shanghai)
Authors: Albert Alcalde, Giovanni Fantuzzi, Enrique Zuazua
Date: October 7 – 10, 2024
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Poster: Clustering in Pure-attention Hardmax Transformers and Its Role in Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Albert Alcalde, Giovanni Fantuzzi, Enrique Zuazua
Date: October 01, 2024
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Polynomial Optimization for Nonlinear Dynamics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications. Oberwolfach Seminar (2431)
Authors: Giovanni Fantuzzi (FAU), David Goluskin (Victoria), Jean-Bernard Lasserre
Date: July 28 – August 02, 2024
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Moment-Sum-of-Squares relaxations for variational problems. Nečas Seminar on Continuum Mechanics
Authors: Giovanni Fantuzzi
Date: May 13, 2024
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Data-driven system analysis: Polynomial optimization meets Koopman. Aerodynamics & Control Seminars
Authors: Giovanni Fantuzzi
Date: October 19, 2023
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Discovering scaling laws for heat transport with convex optimization. FAU DCN-AvH Seminar
Authors: Giovanni Fantuzzi
Date: November 10, 2022
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Publications
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