Sylvia Serfaty, Professeur at Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions and Silver Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, has been announced as the recipient of the Riemann Prize 2025 in Mathematics, awarded by the Riemann International School of Mathematics (RISM).

Sylvia Serfaty (Boulogne-Billancourt, November 6th, 1975), a world renowned French mathematician and academic, known for her numerous contributions to mathematical physics, calculus of variations, and random matrix theory, including her rigorous analyses of Ginzburg-Landau vortex dynamics, Coulomb and logarithmic gases, and beta ensembles, as well as her influential texts on these subjects. She has received several distinctions, including: Henri Poincaré Prize (2012), Grand Prix Mergier-Bourdeix de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris (2013), and the Maryam Mirzakhani Prize (2024). She is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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