Hajer Bahouri was born in Tunisia and is an expert in partial differential equations. She became Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research and the Laboratory of Analysis and Applied Mathematics at the University Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne.
This biography, written by J J O’Connor and E F Robertson, has been republished with permission from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. […]
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