Virginie BONNAILLIE-NOËL, France
Virginie BONNAILLIE-NOËL is a Research Director of the French CNRS, currently attached to
the Mathematics Department of Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She is working in the field
of analysis on various questions ranging from spectral theory, asymptotic analysis, finite
elements to applications to physical systems of several different kinds. Her work brought her
invitations to numerous conferences. She is adjoint director of the Institut National des
Sciences Mathématiques et leurs Interactions (INSMI) of CNRS and has or had accepted
several academic administrative duties for the French Mathematical Society (SMF), the French
Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SMAI), for Agence Nationale de la Recherche
(ANR), and others. Public outreach is another strong interest of her – to name only a few
examples, she was involved in activities around “Pi Day” and gave a lecture in the “Mathematic
Park” series. This variety of commitments was, amongst others, rewarded by her being named
Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2011.
Philippa HEMMINGS, United Kingdom
Philippa HEMMINGS has been the EPSRC Theme Leader for the Mathematical Sciences and
the EPSRC Lead for Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) for the past 5 years. EPSRC
is the main Government Funding agency for research in the engineering and physical sciences,
which includes mathematical sciences, in the UK. In addition to overseeing the funding of
mathematical sciences research including partnerships with other disciplines and PhD training
and working with the UK community to identify and develop new opportunities, responsibilities
include undertaking evaluations and obtaining evidence to inform future strategy and funding
and to help communicate the importance of the mathematical sciences. The Deloitte Report
on the Economic Impact of Mathematical Sciences Research, which was commissioned by
EPSRC, is an example. Philippa Hemmings has had a number of previous roles within EPSRC
including Head of the Engineering for Sustainability Programme (which included civil,
environmental and chemical engineering). She also spent a number of years managing the
EPSRC Council and its advisory Panels, and overseeing evaluation and strategic planning
within EPSRC and a short time at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills working
on the UK Government’s Science & Innovation Strategy.
Hannah MARKWIG, Germany
Hannah MARKWIG now holds a professorship at the University of Tübingen after being several
years in Saarbrücken, Germany. Since her thesis (defended in 2006), she has been shaping
the field of tropical geometry and exploring connections to neighbouring fields. For her early
work, she was awarded DFG’s Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prize in 2010. Hannah Markwig aims to
solve classical questions from algebraic geometry based on work on their tropical analogues.
For this work, she has built up an international network of collaborators. She also keeps the
algorithmic side of her field in mind and contributes actively to the advancement of computer
algebra systems.
Stefan MÜHLBACHLER, Austria
Stefan MÜHLBACHLER works currently as Scientific Project Officer at the Austrian Science
Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, FWF) in Vienna. He earned a
PhD in Geophysics in 2002 and after holding postdoc positions at the Space Research Institute
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
in Germany he entered FWF in 2006. The Austrian Science Fund is Austria's central funding
organization for basic research quite similar to what the DFG is for Germany. In 2015 a total
volume of 200 Million Euros were approved for research projects by the FWF. Here Stefan
Mühlbachler is responsible for the processing of all proposals in the fields of theoretical
mathematics and computer science. He serves also as programme manager for two ERA-Nets:
FLAGERA and CHIST-ERA. Furthermore he is concerned with FWF coaching workshops and
information events.
Ivan NETUKA, Czech Republic
Ivan NETUKA was appointed in the year 1986 as a Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Charles University in Prague. His scientific interests
and research comprises the fields of mathematical analysis, potential theory, measure and
integration, and functional analysis. He also has a deep interest in the history of mathematics.
Prof. Netuka held various research visiting positions in France, Germany, the Netherlands,
Sweden, the USA and Great Britain. He is a member or corresponding member of various
Academies of Sciences and Scientific Councils. He was also and is still the Czech
representative of different scientific councils and organisations on a European level. Professor
Netuka acted as Vice-President of the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) since the year 2008.
The Government of the Czech Republic appointed him as President of the Czech Science
Foundation in October 2014 which is his actual position.
Enrique ZUAZUA, Spain
Enrique ZUAZUA is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Autonomous University of
Madrid (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)). His domains of expertise in Applied
Mathematics include Partial Differential Equations, Control Theory and Numerical Analysis.
Within his strong university career he has held Visiting Professorships at various overseas
bodies, including the Courant Institute, the University of Minnesota and Rice University in the
USA, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, and at
various French Universities. At the moment he is a Visiting Fellow at the Laboratoire JacquesLouis Lions at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. From 2008-2012 he was the
Founding Scientific Director of the Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in Bilbao
in the Basque Country - a centre created by the Basque Government with the aim of promoting
research into the most computational, applied and multi-disciplinary aspects of Mathematics.
He has been guest speaker in many international conferences worldwide and has developed
a number of cooperative projects with industries such as AIRBUS-Spain and the Arteche
Group. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of various Research Institutes and
participated in various international review panels for the French CNRS, ANR, IUF, AERES
and INRIA and the German DFG amongst other agencies. Furthermore, he served as chair of
the European Research Council’s PE1 Panel on Mathematics in the ERC "Advanced Grants"
funding scheme.