Professor Eva Miranda, awarded the inaugural Agnes Szantó Medal

It has been announced that the 2026 Agnes Szantó Medal will be awarded to Professor Eva Miranda, Chair of Geometry and Topology in the Department of Mathematics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC). The announcement was made officially by the Foundation of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) as part of the FoCM 2026 congress, which will be held in Vienna.

The Agnes Szantó Medal, established in 2023, honors the memory of Professor Agnes Szantó, a distinguished researcher in symbolic computation, professor at North Carolina State University, and a benchmark figure for her scientific excellence, teaching dedication, and commitment to the international mathematical community.

This award, which will be granted approximately every three years, recognizes recipients who have made significant and innovative contributions in computational mathematics, together with a sustained record of service and scientific leadership. The award to Professor Eva Miranda corresponds to the first edition of this distinction.

Eva Miranda’s selection as the first recipient of this medal highlights an outstanding scientific career with major international impact, marked by pioneering contributions to symplectic and Poisson geometry, dynamical systems, celestial mechanics, fluid dynamics, and, more recently, mathematical aspects of computation, establishing new connections between fundamental and applied areas of contemporary mathematics.

Professor Miranda has been awarded two consecutive ICREA Acadèmia distinctions (2016 and 2021). She is a member of the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) and IMTech, director of the Laboratory of Geometry and Dynamical Systems at EPSEB, principal investigator of the GEOMVAP (Geometry of Varieties and Applications) group, and co-director of the SYMCREA unit.

Among other international recognitions, she has received the François Deruyts Prize from the Royal Academy of Belgium, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and a Chaire d’Excellence from the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris.

The official medal ceremony will take place on 13 July 2026 during the FoCM 2026 congress. The following day, 14 July, Professor Miranda will deliver the Agnes Szantó inaugural lecture, titled Found in Translation, which will address the value of communication, the transfer of ideas, and bridges between disciplines and with society.

The Department of Mathematics expresses its satisfaction with this distinction, which recognizes Professor Eva Miranda’s talent and scientific leadership and, at the same time, strengthens the international projection of the Department and UPC.

More information:
https://focm2026.univie.ac.at/?page_id=2066#02