Erna Begović Kovač

About me:
I work as an associate professor at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb. I received my Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of Zagreb.

Research interests

Numerical linear and multilinear algebra, eigenvalue problems, iterative methods.

Employment

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Zagreb, Croatia

  • Associate professor
    February 2024 -
  • Assistant professor
    November 2018 - February 2024
  • Postdoc
    January 2015 – November 2018
  • Teaching assistant
    March 2010 – December 2014

Georgia Tech, School of Mathematics, Atlanta GA, USA

  • Visiting lecturer
    August 2019 - May 2020

Research grants

  • Croatian Science Foundation project 5200: Decompositions and Approximations of Matrices and Tensors, principal investigator, duration: 2020 - 2024. [web page]
  • DAAD Short-term grant, duration: Dec 2017 - Feb 2018.
  • Croatian Science Foundation project 3670: Matrix Factorizations and Block-Diagonalization Algorithms, team member (PI Vjeran Hari), duration: 2015 - 2019.

Education

  • December 2014 – Ph.D. in Mathematics
    University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics
    Thesis: Convergence of Block Jacobi Methods
    Advisor: Vjeran Hari
  • December 2008 – Diploma in Applied Mathematics (B.Sc. and M.Sc.)
    University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics

Math genealogy

Research visits

  • March 2019, short visit to KTH Stockholm, Sweden
  • December 2017 - March 2018, TU Braunschweig, Germany (DAAD Short-term grant)
  • October 2016, short visit to TU Braunschweig, Germany
  • November 2014 and February 2016, short visits to EPF Lausanne, Switzerland

Memberships

  • SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
  • HMD (Croatian Mathematical Society)