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Duván Cardona Sánchez (Born in Colombia, 18 April 1992) is an Assistant Professor at KFUPM (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals) in Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and a Professor of Mathematics at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá-Colombia. In the period 2023-2026 he was an FWO Research Fellow at Ghent University, Belgium, supported by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), and was previously an Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellow at the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics (MFO) in Germany. In the period 2022-2026, he was the Scientific Director of ICMAM Latin America (International Community of Mathematicians from Latin America), and in 2024, he became the youngest member ever elected to the Board of Directors of ISAAC (International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation). Since 2026, he has been Advisory Director of ICMAM Africa. He is the Chair of the ICMAM Analysis and PDE Research Group and Editor in Chief of the Springer Book Editorial Project at ICMAM Latin America. He is also a member of the Industry Relations Advisory Committee of the Math Department at KFUPM.
In 2025, he was awarded the ISAAC President's Award for Young ISAACs for outstanding research achievements; he joined the Board of the Young Academy of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, and he joined the Commission on Applied and Industrial Mathematics (CMAI) of the Colombian Mathematical Society. He has been a referee for numerous international journals and a reviewer for the Colombian Ministry of Science and Technology since 2020. He received the Yu Takeuchi Honorable Mention in 2018 and was named Colombia's Top Junior Researcher in Mathematics (2016–2018) by the Colombian Academy of Sciences.
He is actively involved in international dissemination and co-organization of conferences, workshops, and seminars connecting mathematical communities across Latin America, USA, Europe, Africa and Asia (ICMAM Events). He has been a scientific visitor at several leading institutions such as UCLA, the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, the Deusto Institute of Science and Technology, and Imperial College London.
His areas of expertise lie in Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Pseudo-differential Operators, Fourier Integral Operators, and Control Theory. He has authored more than 100 papers, including several in top-tier journals and several books. According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 14 (i-index=22), and his work has received over 600 citations.
Academic Positions - Professional Experience
Academic Positions - Professional Experience
2026-now. Assistant Professor of Mathematics
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
College of Computing and Mathematics
Office: Building 5-329
Dhahran-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.2026-now. Professor of Mathematics
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
(Xavierian Pontifical University)
Bogotá-Colombia.2026. Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellow
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
(MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics),
Oberwolfach-Germany.October 2023- September 2026.
FWO Research Fellow at Ghent University.
Funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO);
Krijgslaan 281, Building S8, B 9000
Ghent-Belgium.September 2025-June 2026.
AIMS MSc Project Supervisor.
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS South Africa)
South Africa.
2019-2023.
Doctoral student. Ghent University.
Department of Mathematics: Analysis, Logic and Discrete Mathematics.
Ghent-Belgium.April-July, 2022. Research Internship.
Chair of Computational Mathematics at Deusto Institute of Technology,
Bilbao-Basque Country (Spain).2017-2018. Lecturer.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Mathematics Department.
Bogotá-Colombia.2014-I/2015-2017. Graduate Assistant.
Universidad de los Andes.
Mathematics Department.
Bogotá-Colombia.2008-2013. Student/Bachelor.
Universidad del Valle.
Cali-Colombia.
Schools and Degrees
Schools and Degrees
Doctor of Science: Mathematics (Doctor in de Wetenschappen: wiskunde). Ghent University, Belgium. 2023.
Advisor: Prof. Dr Michael Ruzhansky. Co-Advisor: Prof. Dr Julio Delgado.
Thesis: Contributions to the theory of pseudo-differential operators: from compact to graded Lie groups. (410 Pages).
Video of my defense.
Jury: Elmar Schrohe (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Sylvie Paycha (Universität Potsdam), Simon Scott (King's College London), Hans Vernaeve (Ghent University), Denis Constales (Ghent University), Bart De Bruyn (Ghent University).Bachelor in Mathematics. Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia. 2015.
Advisor: Julio Delgado. Imperial College London, 2012-2019. (Current address: Universidad del Valle).
Thesis: Invertibilidad de operadores pseudo-diferenciales no elípticos.
Jury: José Raúl Quintero (Universidad del Valle), Guillermo Restrepo Sierra (in memoriam).
Score: Meritorious.
Research Visits
Research Visits
September 2024: UCLA, Department of Mathematics.
Mentor: Prof. Dr. Terence Tao.25 April-29 July, 2022: Chair of Computational Mathematics of Deusto Foundation at University of Deusto and Deusto Institute of Science and Technology, Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain).
Mentor: Prof. Dr. Enrique Zuazua.September 2016: Mathematics Department, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London-UK.
Mentor: Prof. Dr. Michael Ruzhansky.
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2026. Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellowship,
awarded by the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
(MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics),
Germany.2025. President’s Award for Young ISAACs,
awarded by the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC).
📽 [Video of the ceremony]"Soy Egresado Soy Univalle" Distinction 2024,
awarded by Universidad del Valle (Cali-Colombia),
for the social impact of ICMAM Latin America as its Scientific Director.
Watch the video.FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023-2026.
Awarded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Belgium.
(Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO).
More details here.2024 IMU-CDC Conference Support Program Grant.
Awarded by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
More details here.Young Researcher - Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
Young researcher chosen to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
Event organized by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF), Germany, 2020 & 2021.Reviewer (Par evaluador) for the Ministry of Sciences, Technology, and Innovation of Colombia.
Colombian Science Ministry, 2020-.
More details here.Honorable mention of the Yu-Takeuchi Prize.
Awarded by the Colombian Academy of Sciences.
More details here. Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Dec-03-2018, Bogotá-Colombia.Silver Medal at Olimpiada Universitaria de Matemáticas, UAO-Colombia, 2009.
Service to the Scientific Community and Institutional Responsibilities
Service to the Scientific Community and Institutional Responsibilities
2026-now. Member of the Industry Relations Advisory Committee
KFUPM (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.2026; Invited Evaluator for the National Committee of Experts,
“Becas para el Cambio” Program (CV 975);
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia.2026; Reviewer for FPIT
Foundation for the Promotion of Research and Technology,
Bank of the Republic of Colombia.2026. Reviewer
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) &
Nazarbayev University Research Council
(Astana, Kazakhstan).2026-now. Executive Director
(Former Advisory Director)
ICMAM Africa (International Community of Mathematicians from Africa).2025-2027. Auditor
International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation
(ISAAC).2025-2026. Member of the Young Academy of the
Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences.2025–now. Board Member
Commission on Applied and Industrial Mathematics (CMAI)
Colombian Mathematical Society.
More details here.2025-Now. Editor in Chief,
Newsletter of UMALCA
(Mathematical Union for Latin America and the Caribbean).2024-Now. Board member
International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation
(ISAAC),
holding the record as the youngest appointee for this position in ISAAC’s history!
More details here.2023-now. Board Member
ICMAM for Central America and the Caribbean:
More details here.2023-2026. Working Group Member of CaLISTA: COST Action CA21109 “Cartan Geometry, Lie, Integrable Systems, quantum group Theories for Applications”, European Cooperation in Science & Technology, Horizon 2020, European Union. More details here.
2022-2026. Scientific Director of ICMAM Latin America
(International Community of Mathematicians from Latin America).
More details here.President of the Scientific Board - ICMAM Latin America (2022-2024):
More details here.(2022-now). Member of the ISAAC Group in Partial Differential Equations.
(2021-now). Member of the BMS: Belgian Mathematical Society.
(2021-∞). Life Member of the ISAAC: International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation.
Editorial Board
Editorial Board
2022-now
Editor in Chief
ICMAM Latin America Springer Book Series2025-now
Member of the Editorial Board
Georgian Mathematical Journal
founded by the Georgian National Academy of Sciences and by the A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute, and is jointly produced with De Gruyter.2023-now
Assistant Editor
Book Series: Research Perspectives Ghent Analysis and PDE Center
Trends in Mathematics, Birkhäuser-Springer2024-now
Member of the Editorial Committee
Selecciones Matemáticas
Scientific Journal of the Department of Mathematics of the National University of Trujillo, Perú.
Conferences Organised or Scientific Committee Member
Conferences Organised or Scientific Committee Member
ICMAM Latin America 2026 (online), Duitama, Colombia, Chair of the organising committee, UPTC-Duitama, Colombia; 13-17 July 2026.
ISAAC-ICMAM Conference of Analysis in Developing Countries, 16-18 March 2026, AIMS-Ghana, Chair of the organising committee. Supported by ICMAM Latin America, AIMS-Ghana (Africa) and ISAAC (International Society for Analysis, its Application and Computation)
2nd Colombian Workshop in Nonlinear Dispersive Equations, 10-13 December 2025: Member of the Scientific Committee.
Amates-ICMAM Workshop for Central America and the Caribbean, November 27-28, 2025. Member of the International Advisory Committee.
Oscillation phenomena, PDEs, and applications: A Comprehensive School in Mathematical Analysis. October 16-24, Ghent Analysis and PDE Center, Ghent University, Belgium. Member of the Scientific Committee.
ICMAM Central America and the Caribbean 2025, 13-17 October 2025: Member of the International Advisory Committee.
ICMAM Satellite Conference in Analysis and PDE for Central America and the Caribbean, 14-18 July 2025: Member of the International Advisory Committee.
Advances in Mathematical Physics: Methods and Applications, 19-20 August 2025: Member of the organising committee. Organised by the Ghent Analysis and PDE Centre in cooperation with V.I. Romanovskiy Institute of Mathematics, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, and the ICMAM Latin America.
Global Minds in Pseudo-Differential Analysis, 25-28 April 2025: Member of the organising committee. Ghent University, Belgium.
ISAAC-ICMAM Conference of Analysis in Developing Countries, 2-6 December 2024: Conference in Tribute to the Mathematical Career of Luigi Rodino. Chair of the Conference.
ISAAC-ICMAM Conference of Women in Mathematics 2024: Member of the scientific committee.
ICMAM Latin America 2024, Cali-Colombia: Supported by the Conference Support Program of the International Mathematical Union. Chair of the organising committee. Speakers: Pierre Louis Lions, Carlos Kenig, Hiraku Nakajima, Efim Zelmanov, Avi Wigderson, Peter Sarnak, etc. Complete list of speakers here.
Trends in Mathematical Sciences: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 10-14, 2024. Member of the Organising Committee.
ICMAM Latin America Satellite Conference on Data Science, AI and Machine Learning: Member of the Scientific Board. Speakers: Enrique Zuazua, Macarena Estevez, Camelia Goga, Biswaranjan Senapati. Member of the scientific committee.
ICMAM Latin America Satellite Conference on Analysis and PDE 2023, 10-14 October 2023: Chair of the Organising Committee. Speakers: Charles Fefferman, Monica Visan, Tobias Colding, Felipe Linares, Michael Ruzhansky, etc.
ICMAM Latin America Satellite Conference on Algebra, Combinatorics and Number Theory 2023, 27-29 September 2023: President of the Scientific Board. Speakers: Emanuel Carneiro, Kristin Lauter, Cesar Ceballos, etc.
ICMAM 2022 Latin America: International Conference: Multidisciplinary Aspects in Mathematics and its applications, 25-28 October 2022: Universidad del Valle. Department of Mathematics. Plenary: Terence Tao, Michael Ruzhansky, David Dos Santos Ferreira, Enrique Zuazua, Simon Donaldson, Carlos Kenig, Tatiana Toro, Harald Helfgott. President of the Scientific Board.
London-Ghent Microlocal Analysis Workshop, 23-24 March 2022: Ghent Analysis & PDE Center and Imperial College London (organising committee: D. Cardona, L. Read, D. S. Gómez Cobos, M. Chatzakou), Ghent-Belgium, London-UK.
CONVImaTE 2022 open to Latin-America, 24-28 January 2022: Member of the scientific committee (Analysis and PDE session: D. Cardona and J. R. Quintero) and member of the organising committee, Department of Mathematics, Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia.
International Conference on noncommutative analysis, 18-20 August 2020: Ghent Analysis & PDE Center (organising committee: D. Cardona, M. Chatzakou, J. Huang, B. Sabitbek, V. Kumar, and M. Ruzhansky) Ghent-Belgium.
International Conference on Pseudo-differential Operators, 7-8 July 2020: Ghent Analysis & PDE Center (organising committee: D. Cardona, M. Chatzakou, S. Federico, J. Huang, B. Sabitbek, D. Rottensteiner, M. Ruzhansky), Ghent-Belgium.
International conference: Multidisciplinary Aspects in Mathematics and its applications, 29-31 August 2020: Universidad del Valle. Department of Mathematics. Organising committee: D. Cardona (Chair), S. Troncoso (Co-chair), L. Posada (Univalle), M. Paredes (Univalle), Cali-Colombia.
Seminars Co-organised
Seminars Co-organised
Latin American Mathematics Seminar (UMALCA-ICMAM): Organised by UMALCA (International Mathematical Union of Latin America and the Caribbean) and ICMAM Latin America (International Community of Mathematicians from Latin America).
Mathematics & Memory: A seminar on Analysis and PDE for Latin America (Starting from March 2024).
Ghent Methusalem Microlocal Day #9: 5 March 2024.
Ghent Geometric Analysis Seminar at Ghent University: (Starting from April of 2022-2023). Organisers: Duván Cardona, Gihyun Lee, David Santiago Gómez Cóbos.
Ghent Methusalem Junior Seminar at Ghent University: (February 2021/March 2023).
Ghent Methusalem Microlocal Day #8: 17 February 2023. Ghent University. Organisers: D. Cardona & B. Grajales. Previous Microlocal days at the Imperial College London and at Ghent university: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7.
CONVImaTE 2022: Winter courses on pure and applied mathematics. (Big Data, PDE and Pseudo-differential Operators. Chair. Organisers: Julio Delgado, Duván Cardona, Karina Navarro, Liliana Esquivel. Open virtual version for Latin-America. Department of Mathematics, Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia.
Referee reviewer for: (updated until 2023 due to the high activity of invitations)
Referee reviewer for: (updated until 2023 due to the high activity of invitations)
Mathematical Reviews/MathSciNet. American Mathematical Society (AMS), [ISSN: 2167-5163 ], 2019-.
Zentralblatt MATH/ European Mathematical Society (EMS)/ FIZ Karlsruhe/ Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, [ISSN: 1436-3356] 2020-.
Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 2023-.
Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 2022-.
Mathematische Annalen. Springer, 2020-.
Journal of Geometric Analysis, Springer, 2023-.
Comptes Rendus Mathématique. Institute de France, Académie des sciences, 2021-.
Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry. Springer, 2021-.
(IMRN) International Mathematics Research Notices. Oxford University Press, 2021-.
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2025-.
Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series A, 2023-.
Potential Analysis., 2022-.
Journal of Functional Analysis. Elsevier, 2020-.
Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Springer, 2022-.
Forum of Mathematics. Sigma. Cambridge Univ. Press., 2020-.
Documenta Mathematica. Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV)., 2020-.
Mathematische Nachrichten. Wiley-VCH Verlag, Wiley, 2019-.
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Scuola Normale Superiore. Pisa, Italy., 2022-.
Monatshefte für Mathematik. Springer, 2023-.
Journal of Pseudo-Differential Operators and Applications. Springer, 2016-.
Journal of Differential equations. Elsevier, 2020-.
Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations. Springer 2023-.
SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and applications)., 2019-.
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Cambridge University Press, 2018-.
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society. Cambridge University Press, 2019-.
Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Serie A. Matemáticas. Springer, 2022-.
Differential and Integral Equations. Khayyam, 2019-.
Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, Elsevier, 2021-.
Complex Analysis and Operator Theory Springer, 2022-.
Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, World Scientific, 2021-.
Acta Mathematica Scientia, Wuhan Inst. Phys. and Math. & Chinese Acad. Sci., Springer, 2020-.
The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. The Indian Mathematical Society, 2021-.
Res. Inst. Math. Sci. (RIMS). Kyoto University, Japan., 2018-.
Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Springer, 2021-.
Open Physics. De Gruyter, 2021.
Georgian Mathematical Journal. De Gruyter, 2022-.
Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis. Springer, 2023-.
Annals of Functional Analysis. Springer, 2023-.
Vietnam Journal of Mathematics. Springer, 2022-.
Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations. Springer 2021-.
Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo Series 2, Springer 2023-.
Revista Integración, Temas de Matemáticas. Edited by Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Colombia, 2023-.
Selecciones Matemáticas, 2024-. Edited by National University of Trujillo, Peru.
Supervision of Students
Supervision of Students
Since 2026:
Master’s Student, Mannondé Gbaguidi.
African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa.2026:
Master’s Student, Nestor Steven Quevedo.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia.Since 2025:
Ph.D. Student, Frederick Opoku.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.Since 2024:
Master’s Student, Rafik Yeghoyan.
Ghent University, Belgium.
2025:
Master’s Student, Sara Luna Ruíz Montoya.
University of Europe for Applied Sciences, Germany.2024–2025:
Bachelor’s Student, Manuel Alejandro Martínez Florez.
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala.2025:
Bachelor’s Student, Nestor Steven Quevedo.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia.
Thesis and Research Project Examination
Thesis and Research Project Examination
2024-I: Mathematics, Seminario – 111093M,
Research and Innovation Project,
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Student: Esteban Daniel Ospino Tafur.2024-I: Mathematics, Seminario – 111093M,
Research and Innovation Project,
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Student: Camilo Rivera Valdes.2024-I: Master's in Mathematical Sciences, Investigación II – 111061,
Research and Innovation Project,
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Student: Zea Quintero Laura Alexandra.2024-II: Mathematics, Trabajo de Grado II – 111090M,
Research and Innovation Project,
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Student: Alejandro Umaña Peña.2025-I: Mathematics, Trabajo de Grado II – 111090M,
Research and Innovation Project, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Student: Camilo Rivera Valdes.2025-II: Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, Seminario III – 111076, Ph.D. Thesis,
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Student: Javier Andres Henriquez Amador.2026-I: Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, Seminario III – 111076, Ph.D. Thesis,
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Student: Juan Pablo Lopez Holguin.2026-I: Mathematics, Trabajo de Grado II – 111090M,
Research and Innovation Project; assignment and evaluation of jurors,
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Student: Kevin Velez Escarria.
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