Diego Córdoba. Imagen: Laura M. Iraola/ICMAT
Diego Córdoba, scientific director of the Severo Ochoa Program of Excellence at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT), research professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the ICMAT and winner of the 2023 National Research Award, is one of the six new academicians of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences (RAC). Córdoba enters as a corresponding academician in the section of Mathematical Sciences, in the scientific area of equations in partial derivatives. With this new appointment, six ICMAT members occupy seats in the RAC: Córdoba joins Manuel de León (ICMAT-CSIC), David Ríos (ICMAT-CSIC) and David Pérez García (ICMAT-UCM), full academicians; and Alberto Enciso (ICMAT-CSIC) and María Jesús Carro (ICMAT-UCM), corresponding academicians.
Isabel Molina Peralta, an expert in statistics from the Complutense University of Madrid, and Alfred Peris Manguillot, an expert in mathematical analysis and linear dynamics at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, have also joined as corresponding members of the Mathematical Sciences section.
Another mathematician, Eugenio Hernández Rodríguez, has been named honorary academician in recognition of his dedication and contribution to the Estalmat programme (Stimulation of Mathematical Talent) since its beginnings, both in the Community of Madrid and at national level. Hernández is a professor of mathematical analysis at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
In addition to all of them, Vicente Gotor Fernández, from the Department of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oviedo, and Ana María Urtiaga Mendía, an expert in clean technologies for the green transition and member of the University of Cantabria, have been appointed as corresponding academicians in the Physics and Chemistry section of the RAC.
Diego Córdoba
Diego Córdoba is a research professor at ICMAT and since 2015 he is the scientific director of the Severo Ochoa Excellence Program of the Institute. He is currently leading the project “Non-local dynamics in incompressible fluids”, recognized with an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). From 2008 to 2013 he developed the project “Contour dynamics and singularities in incompressible flows”, also recognized with a Starting Grant from the ERC.
PhD. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1998, Cordoba has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the University of Chicago and Princeton University. In 2002 he joined the CSIC as a Ramón y Cajal researcher and in 2009 he obtained the position of research professor that he has held since then.
His scientific work is framed within the area of mathematical analysis and is closely related to the study of the equations that appear in fluid mechanics. This is a field in which experimental methods, numerical simulations and rigorous mathematical demonstrations -where Córdoba’s contributions are located- interact.
In addition to the National Research Award ‘Julio Rey Pastor’ 2023, his recognitions include the SEMA Award (Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics) for young researchers in 2005, the Miguel Catalán Award 2011 of the Community of Madrid and the Margarita Salas Medal of the CSIC for the supervision of research personnel (2023). He was also an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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