Steven Ruuth is a Professor in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Group at Simon Fraser University. In 2011, he was awarded the Germund Dahlquist Prize from SIAM for his research contributions to the numerical solution of initial value problems for ordinary and partial differential equations. In 2020, he was awarded the CAIMS Research Prize for contributions to the development of robust numerical methods for time dependent partial differential equations and interfacial dynamics, and his impact in scientific computing. He is a member of the editorial boards of SIAM J. Sci. Comput., Numer. Math.-Theory Me. and Appl. Numer. Math.