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D-Index
60
Citations
18337
World Ranking
548
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Henri Berestycki is affiliated with the Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales in France. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong focus on Medicine and Mathematics, reflected equally in their publication record. The scientist's work integrates aspects of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Modeling and Simulation, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, and Applied Mathematics.

The main topics explored in their research include Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Data-Driven Disease Surveillance, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.

Berestycki has contributed frequently to scientific literature published in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome)
  • Journal of Mathematical Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Berestycki include:

  • "Propagation of Epidemics Along Lines with Fast Diffusion" (2021, IRIS Research product catalog, Sapienza University of Rome)
  • "A parsimonious approach for spatial transmission and heterogeneity in the COVID-19 propagation" (2020, Royal Society Open Science)
  • "Epidemic modeling with heterogeneity and social diffusion" (2023, Journal of Mathematical Biology)
  • "Asymptotic Spreading for General Heterogeneous Fisher-KPP Type Equations" (2022, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)
  • "Plateaus, rebounds and the effects of individual behaviours in epidemics" (2021, Scientific Reports)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, notably:

  • Luca Rossi
  • Cole Graham
  • Jean-Michel Roquejoffre
  • Lionel Roques
  • Olivier Bonnefon

Berestycki's recognition includes election as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, both awarded in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear scalar field equations, I existence of a ground state

    Henri Berestycki;Henri Berestycki;Pierre-Louis Lions;Pierre-Louis Lions

  • Nonlinear scalar field equations, II existence of infinitely many solutions

    H. Berestycki;H. Berestycki;P. L. Lions;P. L. Lions

  • On the method of moving planes and the sliding method

    H. Berestycki;L. Nirenberg

  • The principal eigenvalue and maximum principle for second-order elliptic operators in general domains

    H. Berestycki;L. Nirenberg;S. R. S. Varadhan

  • Travelling fronts in cylinders

    Henri Berestycki;Henri Berestycki;Henri Berestycki;Louis Nirenberg;Louis Nirenberg;Louis Nirenberg

  • Front propagation in periodic excitable media

    Henri Berestycki;François Hamel;François Hamel

  • Analysis of the periodically fragmented environment model: I--species persistence.

    Henri Berestycki;François Hamel;Lionel Roques

  • Further qualitative properties for elliptic equations in unbounded domains

    Henri Berestycki;Luis Caffarelli;Louis Nirenberg

  • A perturbation method in critical point theory and applications

    Abbas Bahri;Henri Berestycki

  • Superlinear indefinite elliptic problems and nonlinear Liouville theorems

    Henri Berestycki;I. Capuzzo Dolcetta;Louis Nirenberg

  • Can a Species Keep Pace with a Shifting Climate

    H. Berestycki;O. Diekmann;C. J. Nagelkerke;P. A. Zegeling

  • Traveling Wave Solutions to Combustion Models and Their Singular Limits

    Henri Berestycki;Basil Nicolaenko;Bruno Scheurer

  • The non-local Fisher-KPP equation: travelling waves and steady states

    Henri Berestycki;Grégoire Nadin;Benoit Perthame;Benoit Perthame;Lenya Ryzhik

  • Variational methods for indefinite superlinear homogeneous elliptic problems

    Henri Berestycki;Italo Capuzzo-Dolcetta;Louis Nirenberg

  • Analysis of the periodically fragmented environment model: II—biological invasions and pulsating travelling fronts

    Henri Berestycki;François Hamel;Lionel Roques

  • Monotonicity for elliptic equations in unbounded Lipschitz domains

    H. Berestycki;Luis A Caffarelli;L. Nirenberg

  • Le nombre de solutions de certains problèmes semi-linéaires elliptiques

    Henri Berestycki

  • Asymptotics and calibration of local volatility models

    H Berestycki;J Busca;I Florent

  • Computing the implied volatility in stochastic volatility models

    Henri Berestycki;Jérôme Busca;Igor Florent

  • Generalized Transition Waves and Their Properties

    Henri Berestycki;Henri Berestycki;François Hamel

  • The speed of propagation for KPP type problems. II: General domains

    Henri Berestycki;François Hamel;Nikolai Nadirashvili

Frequent Co-Authors

François Hamel
François Hamel Aix-Marseille University
Jean-Michel Roquejoffre
Jean-Michel Roquejoffre Toulouse Mathematics Institute
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Juncheng Wei
Juncheng Wei Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lenya Ryzhik
Lenya Ryzhik Stanford University
Pierre-Louis Lions
Pierre-Louis Lions Collège de France
Jose A. Scheinkman
Jose A. Scheinkman Columbia University
Luis A. Caffarelli
Luis A. Caffarelli The University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Kiselev
Alexander Kiselev Duke University
Yves Pomeau
Yves Pomeau École Polytechnique

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