Administration Profiles
Juan J. Manfredi
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
As associate dean for undergraduate studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, Juan Manfredi guides our mission to "provide a challenging education in the liberal arts for the highly selective undergraduate body at the University of Pittsburgh."
He offers leadership on curricular issues through the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Council and also directs the team of assistant deans and other professionals who provide the academic services traditionally expected of the Office of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies—including the Advising Center, the Academic Resource Center, the Office of Experiential Learning, Student Records, and Freshman Programs.
Manfredi has a distinguished record as a teacher and has been deeply engaged with our undergraduate program throughout his career at the University of Pittsburgh. He came to Pitt as an assistant professor in 1989, was promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure in 1993, and was promoted to professor in 1998. With colleague Frank Beatrous he led the team that started our Calculus Project, an initiative that brought core calculus instruction into the digital age in the early 1990s. Manfredi’s innovative teaching of undergraduate calculus was supported financially by the NSF (National Science Foundation) between 1993 and 1996, and his contributions were recognized through the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1994.
Manfredi’s research specialty is nonlinear potential theory, using the methods of classical complex analysis, nonlinear partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, and the theory of quasi-regular mappings. He has published extensively in the major peer-reviewed journals of his discipline and has a strong record of NSF support for his research.
In addition to his teaching and research contributions, Manfredi has served as academic administrator—as an NSF program director and chair of our Department of Mathematics from 2005 until September 2007 when he was appointed associate dean.