Juan Luis Vázquez Suárez

Juan Luis Vázquez Suárez is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain.

He was born in Oviedo on July 26, 1946. In the years 1964/69 he studied Telecommunication Engineering at the Superior Technical School of Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT) in Madrid. In 1973 he graduated in Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he also obtained the Ph. D. degree in 1979 with a thesis directed by Haïm Brezis.

Outstanding researcher in concrete areas of the mathematics such as nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications. He is author of numerous research articles in scientific journals like Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Journal de mathématiques pures et appliquées, Advances in Mathematics among others. He was president of Spanish Society for Applied Mathematics (SEMA) in the period 1996/98. Organizer of international events like the International Conference on Free Boundaries FB1993 (Toledo, Spain) or the Summer Schools at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, UIMP.

He obtained the Spanish National Prize of Research in Mathematics () in 2003, and that year he was included in the Thomson Reuters list of Highly Cited Scientists.

He was invited as main speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Madrid in 2006 (ICM2006) with the plenary conference entitled "Nonlinear diffusion, from analysis to physics and geometry."

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