Clint Dawson

Biography

Dr. Clint Dawson is the Department Chair and holds the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #2 in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. He is also the lead of the computational Hydraulics Group in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. He received Bachelors of Arts and Master of Science degrees in mathematics from Texas Tech University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1988 in mathematical sciences. From 1988 to 1990 he was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Dickson Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. In 1990 he returned to Rice as an assistant professor in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics. He was promoted to associate professor at Rice University in 1994. He moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 1995. He was promoted to full professor in 2000.

Dr. Dawson works in numerical methods for partial differential equations with applications to environmental problems, most notably in the coastal ocean. He has published over 200 journal articles. He was awarded the SIAM Geosciences Career Prize in 2013 and was named a SIAM Fellow in 2016. In 2024 he was awarded the University of Texas President's Research Impact Award, which recognizes university researchers whose scholarly or creative endeavors have changed lives and the way we look at and understand the world. Dawson's work has been instrumental in developing a simulation code that is used worldwide in coastal ocean modeling and hurricane storm surge predictions. A video highlighting Dawson's work was created for the award ceremony. 

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