Organizing Committee Member
Roderick Melnik
Professor
Wilfrid Laurier
Canada
Biography
Roderick is a Professor in the Faculty of Science and Tier Canada Research Chair, Roderick Melnik is an applied mathematician and scientist with over 25 years of academic and industrial research experience. He is the director of the MS2Discovery Interdisciplinary Research Institute. Before his appointment in Canada, Melnik held full professorships in the U.S.A. and Denmark. In contrast, in the late 1990s, he held the position of senior mathematician at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Sydney, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics and his MSc in Applied Mathematics from Kyiv State University in 1989 and 1985, respectively. Melnik has been a recipient of some awards, including prestigious fellowships in Italy, Denmark, England, and Spain. He has published over 300 refereed research contributions in applied mathematics, computational science, and mathematical modeling in sciences and technology. He serves on editorial boards and has been a guest editor of many international journals and book series. He is a member of such professional societies as SIAM, ASME, CAIMS, AustMS, and its ANZIAM Division. Roderick Melnik is head of the M2NeT Laboratory (Mathematical Modelling for New Technologies). It is affiliated with the University of Waterloo and the University of Guelph, as well as with the Guelph-Waterloo Institute of Physics.
Research Area
Polymer Science, Applied and computational mathematics with its enrichments in sciences and technologies; Partial differential equations and approximation theory; Non-smooth control, Mathematical biology, and complex dynamic systems.