Antonella Munthe-Kaas Zanna is an Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst whose research includes work on numerical integration of differential equations and applications to medical imaging. She is a professor and head of the mathematics department at the University of Bergen in Norway. [1]
Zanna was born in Molfetta, in southern Italy, and earned a degree in mathematics from the University of Bari. She completed her PhD in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge [2] in 1998. Her dissertation, Numerical Solution of Isospectral Flows, was supervised by Arieh Iserles. [3]
Zanna won the Second Prize in the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis in 1997. [4] She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. [5]
Zanna married to Norwegian mathematician Hans Munthe-Kaas in 1997; they have two children and a dog. [6]