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Professor Carlos Brebbia is the Director of the Wessex Institute of Technology. He was born in Argentina where he completed his first engineering degree. He spent two years after graduation as part of a small team setting up an Institute of Applied Mechanics. He then registered at Southampton University in England for a higher degree, arranging to carry out his research partly at MIT. After obtaining his PhD at Southampton, he worked at a major UK Research Laboratory before taking an academic appointment at Southampton University where he rose from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer and Reader. During this time he took leave to become Visiting Professor at many other universities, including Princeton.
After being appointed full Professor of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, he returned to the UK to set up the Wessex Institute in the New Forest.
Professor Brebbia is renowned throughout the world as the originator of the Boundary Element Method.