Christina Christara

Christina Christara  was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, received her BSc degree in Mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1982, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University, Indiana, USA in 1986 and 1988, respectively. She served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto during the academic year 1988-1989 and she joined the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1989. Her research area is parallel numerical computation. She focuses on the development and analysis of high-order methods for the solution of Partial Differential Equations, and the development of parallel solvers for the solution of the related linear systems, using domain decomposition and iterative techniques.