García Ferrero is an expert in the study of inverse problems in EDP, on which image reconstruction and medical diagnosis techniques are based. Image: Iñigo de Amescua/ ICMAT

Ágata Timón García-Longoria (ICMAT)

The Council of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) has appointed the members of its governing body for the next four years and among them is the Spaniard María Ángeles García Ferrero, researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at ICMAT.

Last weekend the Council of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) met in Granada, as a preliminary event to the European Congress of Mathematics, which opened today in Seville. At the meeting, the members of the EMS Executive Committee, the body responsible for the regular management of the Society, were chosen for the next four years. Among the new members is María Ángeles García-Ferrero, a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT).

Alongside her, Victoria Gould, from the University of Kent (UK), has been appointed as vice-president; and Adam Skalski, from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland), and Alain Valette, from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), as members. All of them will take office on 1 January 2025.

In addition, Jorge Buescu of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) was re-elected as vice-president, Jirí Rákosník of the University of Prague (Czech Republic) as secretary, and Susanna Terracini of the University of Turin (Italy) and Barbara Kaltenbacher of the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) as members.

Governance of the European Mathematical Society

The EMS seeks to promote the advancement of all aspects of mathematics in the countries of Europe – from research to mathematics education, from dissemination to public policy implications. To this end, it relies on the EMS Executive Committee, its main governing body, which is responsible for the functioning of the Society. It is made up of ten people: the president – who is Jan Philip Solovej, of the University of Copenhagen, until 2026 -, two vice-presidents, a secretary, a treasurer and five members.

The EMS Council, on the other hand, is the supreme authority of the organization. It meets at least once every two years, and its responsibilities include admitting new corporate members, setting dues, approving budgets and electing the president and other members of the Executive Committee.

In addition, there are several committees, focused on specific topics: Applications and Interdisciplinary Relations, Developing Countries, Education, ERCOM (European Research Centres on Mathematics), Ethics, European Solidarity, Mathematics Outreach and Engagement, Meetings, Publications and Electronic Dissemination, Women in Mathematics.

Mª Ángeles García Ferrero

Mª Ángeles García Ferrero has recently joined the ICMAT as a tenured scientist at the CSIC. In 2019 she won the José Luis Rubio de Francia prize, awarded by the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME) to the best young Spanish mathematician under the age of 32, and one of the Vicent Caselles 2019 prizes, awarded by the RSME and the BBVA Foundation to six promising young Spanish mathematicians (under the age of 30). In 2023 she was elected member of the Young Academy of the European Mathematical Society.

Her research interest is in the area of partial differential equations (PDEs) and their applications. The main focus of his current work is the study of inverse problems in PDEs, on which image reconstruction and medical diagnosis techniques are based. He has also contributed significantly to the area of orthogonal polynomials, also relevant in quantum mechanics.

Her scientific results are published in journals such as Duke Mathematical Journal or Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, and she has been invited to present them in more than fifty seminars and congresses. In addition, she actively collaborates in various outreach initiatives, especially preparing lectures and workshops for high school students.

With a degree in Physics from the University of Valladolid (2014), she completed her PhD at ICMAT, under the direction of Alberto Enciso, which she defended in 2018. Previously, she was a student at the JAE School of ICMAT -of which, years later, she has also been a professor-.  She has also been a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in Leipzig (Germany), at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in Bilbao, as well as a lecturer at the University of Barcelona, before joining ICMAT.

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