Javier Aramayona. Image: ICMAT
ERCOM, the committee of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) made up of Europe’s leading mathematics centres, has just renewed its leadership team. Christophe Ritzenhaler, professor at the University of Rennes 1 (France) and director of the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (France), has been elected as president. Javier Aramayona, director of the ICMAT, will be the new vice-president.
The new governing team of ERCOM (European Research Centres on Mathematics), the European Mathematical Society (EMS) committee of European research centres in the mathematical sciences, was announced this week. Javier Aramayona, director of the ICMAT, will be the new vice-president of the committee, which will be chaired by Christophe Ritzenhaler, professor at the University of Rennes 1 (France) and director of the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (France).
‘It is an honour to be appointed as vice-president of this committee, which coordinates the most important mathematics research centres in Europe,’ says Aramayona. ‘From this point of view, it plays an important role in European mathematics: it increases the level of scientific and management cohesion between its centres,’ he adds.
The main purpose of ERCOM is to foster exchange between the centres and the EMS, particularly in aspects related to advanced training in mathematical research. It is made up of representatives from 35 European centres, who meet at least once a year. All these institutions are ‘members of the EMS, predominantly research-oriented, with an international scientific council and an extensive international programme of visits’, according to the ERCOM website.
The ICMAT joined this group in 2016, following ratification by the EMS Executive Committee. In addition to the Institute, only two other Spanish centres are represented in ERCOM: the Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) and the Centre de Recerca Matemática (CRM).
New government for the next four years
The president is nominated by ERCOM itself and approved by the EMS Executive Committee. The president-elect then proposes the vice-president, who is nominated by ERCOM and approved by the EMS. Terms of office are four years, with the possibility of re-election for another two-year term.
Ritzenhaler, an expert in algebraic geometry and arithmetic, has been vice-president of ERCOM since 2021 (and until 2024), under the chairmanship of Adam Skalski (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences).
Javier Aramayona
Javier Aramayona is a tenured CSIC scientist at the ICMAT and has been its director since 2022. His work is in the field of geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology, related areas at the intersection of geometry, topology and algebra. He has published 40 research papers in these areas; his most cited works deal with various rigidity problems for modular groups of surfaces.
He received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Southampton (UK) in 2005, after which he did postdoctoral stays at the universities of Warwick (UK), Marseille (France), Berkeley (USA) and Urbana-Champaign (USA). He has been a permanent lecturer at the National University of Ireland and the University of Toulouse III (France). In 2015 he joined the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with a Ramón y Cajal contract and in 2020 he obtained the position of scientist at the CSIC.
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