Short Bio

Duván Cardona Sánchez (Born in Colombia, 18 April 1992) is a Colombian mathematician, an Assistant Professor at the 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 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.

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 Honourable 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.