Prof. Luis Vega has been elected Member of the Academia Europaea

The inauguration will take place from 19^th to 21^st October and will be broadcast virtually from Barcelona

Prof. Luis Vega, researcher at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics - BCAM and professor at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (UPV/EHU), has been elected Member of the Academia Europaea due to his outstanding achievements as a researcher.

He will take up his position at the 2021 membership conference on 19-21 October in Barcelona, although this year his major part will be virtual.

Now, as a member of the Academy of Europe, his task will be to contribute to the work of the Academy.

About Prof. Luis Vega

Luis Vega is Professor of Mathematics at the UPV/EHU since 1995 and has been visiting professor at several international universities. Scientific Director of BCAM from 2014 to 2019, he is currently the Principal Investigator of the Severo Ochoa accreditation granted to the centre. He has been vice-president of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME) and member of the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics (SEMA), and is currently Officer of the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and of the Spanish Real Academia de Ciencias.

In his extensive career, Vega has been awarded for his research work on several occasions: in 2012 he received the Euskadi Research Award and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (Inagural Class), and in 2015 he received the Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics.

He also leads the HADE project (Harmonic Analysis and Differential Equations: new challenges) funded by the European Research Council.

About Academia Europaea

The Academia Europaea - Academy of Europe, founded in 1988, is an initiative of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom and other National Academies of Europe. Academia Europaea is the only Europe-wide academy with individual members (some 4,500) from Council of Europe states and other nations around the world. The organisation covers the full range of academic disciplines and organises meetings and workshops, provides scientific and academic advice and publishes the international journal "European Review" and Biology Direct. They also have seven regional knowledge centres in Barcelona, Bergen, Budapest, Cardiff, Munich, Tbilisi and Wroclaw.