Margot Gerritsen

Margot Geertrui Gerritsen is a professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University and a senior associate dean for educational initiatives in the Stanford University School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. Her research interests include energy production, ocean dynamics, and sailboat design.^[1]

Margot Gerritsen
Born	Netherlands
Alma mater	Stanford University, Delft University of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Numerical Analysis
Institutions	Stanford University
Thesis	Designing an Efficient Solution Strategy for Fluid Flows  (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Joseph E. Oliger
Website	people.stanford.edu/gerritsn/people

Gerritsen was born in the Netherlands. She earned a master's degree at Delft University of Technology.^[1] She completed her doctorate in 1996 in scientific computing and computational mathematics at Stanford, under the supervision of Joseph Oliger.^[1][2] Between 1996-2001, she was a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Science in Auckland, New Zealand.^[3] Gerritsen then worked at the University of Auckland before rejoining Stanford as a faculty member in 2001.^[1]

She was named a SIAM Fellow in 2018.^[4]