Career
He is the director of the Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Éléments Finis (GIREF). In addition to over 150 research papers on mathematics, he has written a student textbook on numerical analysis for engineers "Analyse numérique pour ingénieurs" in 1994. The textbook has been awarded the Prix Roberval in 1996. Moreover, Fortin has received the CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize in 2012 in recognition of his exceptional contribution throughout his career to research in industrial mathematics. ==References==