Sunčica Čanić earned her Ph.D. in 1992 in nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, under the supervision of James Glimm and Bradley Plohr. In 1999, she joined the University of Houston, where she began collaborating with medical specialists at the Texas Medical Center on problems related to cardiovascular treatment and diagnosis.
Her research achievements have earned numerous accolades, including the National Science Foundation Distinguished MPS (Mathematical and Physical Sciences) Lecturer Award in 2007, the U.S. Congressional Recognition for Top Women in Technology in 2006, and the Esther Farfel Award, the University of Houston's highest honor, in 2018. In 2011, she was invited to present a Congressional Briefing on Applied Mathematics on Capitol Hill. Čanić was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2014 for her “contributions to the modeling and analysis of partial differential equations motivated by applications in the life sciences” and became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2020 for her “distinguished contributions to mathematics.”
In 2018, Čanić joined the Mathematics Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is currently a Full Professor. In 2024, she was awarded the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Prize and elected as a Corresponding Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Her research focuses on the analysis and numerical simulation of partial differential equations with applications in medicine, active materials, and mathematical physics. Her work has influenced the design of a stent for bioartificial aortic valve placement, developed by a private consortium in Houston, and a second-generation bioartificial pancreas, currently under development at the Biodesign Laboratory at UC San Francisco.
Year appointed: 2018
- K. Tawri and S. Čanić. Existence of a martingale solutions to a nonlinearly coupled stochastic fluid-structure interaction problem. Communications in Partial Differential Equations. Accepted 2024.
- J. Kuan, S. Čanić and B. Muha. Fluid-poroelastic structure interaction with nonlinear coupling. Journal de Mathématiques Pures at Appliquées 188, 345-445, 2024.
- M. Bukač, S. Čanić, B. Muha, Y. Wang, A computational algorithm for optimal design of a bioartificial organ scaffold architecture,PLoS Comput Biol 20(11): e1012079, 2024.
- S. Čanić, L. Grubišić, M. Ljulj, J. Tambača, M. Maretić. Geometric optimization of vascular stents modeled as networks of 1D curved rods. Journal of Computational Physics 494, pp 112497, 2023.
- J. Kuan and S. Čanić. Deterministic ill-posedness and deterministic well-posedness of the viscous nonlinear wave equation describing fluid-structure interaction. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 374, 5925-5994, 2021.
- Y. Wang, S. Canic, G. Kokot, A. Snezhko, I.S. Aranson. Quantifying the role of hydrodynamic interaction in the onset of collective states in ansembles of magentic colloidal spinners and rollers. Physical Review Fluids. 2018.
- S. Canic, M. Galovic, M. Ljulj, J. Tambaca. A dimension reduction based coupled model of mesh-reinforced shells. SIAM J Applied Mathematics 77(2), 744-769, 2017.
- P. Zunino, J. Tambača; E. Cutrì; S. Čanić; L. Formaggia; F. Migliavacca. Integrated stent models based on dimensiona reduction. Review and future perspectives. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 44(2), 604-617, 2016.
- B. Muha, S. Canic. Existence of a solution to a fluid-multi-layered-structure interaction problem. Journal of Differential Equations 256, 658-706, 2014.
- B. Muha and S. Canic. Existence of a weak solution to a nonlinear fluid-structure interaction problem modeling the flow of an incompressible, viscous fluid in a cylinder with deformable walls. Archives for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 207(3), 919-968, 2013.
Applied mathematics, partial differential equations, fluid-structure interaction, computational methods, biomedical research
