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Eva Miranda

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Miranda and the second or maternal family name is Galcerán.
Eva Miranda
Alma materUniversidad de Barcelona
AwardsICREA Acadèmia Award (2016, 2021)
Chair of Excellence from Fondation sciences mathématiques de Paris [fr] (2017)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis (2022)
Francois Deruyts Prize (2022)
Gauss Professorship [de] (2025)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya
ThesisOn symplectic linearization of singular lagrangian foliations (2003)
Doctoral advisorCarlos Currás Bosch
Doctoral studentsAnna Kiesenhofer
Websitehttps://mat-web.upc.edu/people/eva.miranda/nova

Eva Miranda Galcerán is a Spanish mathematician specializing in dynamical systems, especially in symplectic geometry.[1][2][3]

Pioneer on singular symplectic geometry, her research includes work with Victor Guillemin on the mathematics underlying the three-body problem in celestial mechanics.[2][3] With Daniel Peralta-Salas and collaborators, she showed the existence of undecidable fluid paths, linking computer science, differential geometry, and fluid dynamics.[4][5][6]

Education and career

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Miranda earned a bachelor's degree in algebra and geometry from the University of Barcelona in 1999.[7] She completed her Ph.D. at the same university in 2003. Her dissertation, On symplectic linearization of singular Lagrangian foliations, was supervised by Carlos Currás Bosch.[7][8]

She was an assistant professor at the University of Barcelona from 2001 to 2006, and a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toulouse from 2004 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009 she was Juan de la Cierva Researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and in 2009 she joined the mathematics department of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Since 2016 she has headed the Laboratory of Geometry and Dynamical Systems at the Polytechnic University. She became Full Professor at UPC in 2018.[7]

Recognition

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Miranda won the Acadèmia Award of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) in 2016 and became ICREA Acadèmia Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2017.[7][1][2][3] In 2021 she received the same award again, becoming the first mathematician in Catalonia to be awarded an ICREA Acadèmia prize twice.[9]

In 2017, Miranda became the first Spanish mathematician and the second woman (after Hélène Esnault) to win a Chair of Excellence from the Fondation sciences mathématiques de Paris [fr].[1][2]

In July 2021 she was an invited speaker to the 8th European Congress of Mathematics.[10]

Miranda is one of the scientists featured in the Casio Women do Science collection.[11]

Miranda has also been distinguished with a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2022. She is the 2023 London Mathematical Society Hardy lecturer. In December 2022 she has been awarded the François Deruyts Prize by the Académie Royale de Belgique. In 2025 she has been named Gauss Professor [de] by the Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.[12][13][14]

In 2025 she has also been named Nachdiplom lecturer by the ETHZ in Zurich.[15]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Mujeres y Matemáticas (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Mathematical Society, archived from the original on 2018-10-01, retrieved 2018-09-30
  2. ^ a b c d Corbalán, Fernando (April 2017), "Eva Miranda: "En España tenemos un importante capital humano en investigación matemática"", Ciencia: Abcdario de las Matemáticas, ABC (in Spanish)
  3. ^ a b c Eva Miranda: ICREA Academia 2016, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, retrieved 2018-09-30
  4. ^ Wood, Charlie (2025-03-07). "'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  5. ^ Cardona, Robert; Miranda, Eva; Peralta-Salas, Daniel; Presas, Francisco (2021-05-11). "Constructing Turing complete Euler flows in dimension 3". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (19) e2026818118. arXiv:2012.12828. Bibcode:2021PNAS..11826818C. doi:10.1073/pnas.2026818118. PMC 8126859. PMID 33947820.
  6. ^ Ansede, Manuel (2021-05-12). "Four mathematicians demonstrate it is impossible to predict where 29,000 rubber ducks in the sea will wash up". EL PAÍS English. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  7. ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae (PDF), May 2018, retrieved 2018-09-30
  8. ^ Eva Miranda at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  9. ^ Varela, Pau (March 2022), Eva Miranda, Full Professor at UPC and CRM Researcher, has been Awarded an ICREA Academia Prize 2021., retrieved 2022-03-12
  10. ^ Invited speaker - Eva Miranda, retrieved 2022-03-12
  11. ^ "Gender Disparities in STEM study, What is Casio Doing to Solve This Problem?". CASIO Official Website. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  12. ^ "Gauss Professorship: Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony (NAWG)". adw-goe.de. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  13. ^ Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen-. "News - Georg-August-University Göttingen". Georg-August Universität Göttingen (in German). Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  14. ^ Eva Miranda: Geometry, Legacy, and the Long Run Toward Equality | Mathematics. Universität Göttingen. 2025-07-02. Retrieved 2025-08-30 – via YouTube.
  15. ^ "Nachdiplom lectures". FIM - Institute for Mathematical Research. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
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