Eva Miranda

Eva Miranda (PhD 2003) is a Full Professor at UPC, member of IMTech and CRM. She is the director of the Laboratory of Geometry and Dynamical Systems, the group leader of the Research group GEOMVAP (Geometry of Varieties and Applications) and the Co-Principal investigator of the Maria de Maeztu at CRM. After her doctoral period she spent several years as postdoc (Marie Curie and Juan de la Cierva) in Toulouse and UAB. Distinguished with two ICREA Academia Prizes in 2016 and 2021, she was awarded a Chaire d'Excellence de la Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris in 2017 and a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize by the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation in 2022. Miranda is the recipient of the quadrennial François Deruyts Prize in 2022, prize awarded by the Royal Academy of Belgium. She has been named the 2023 London Mathematical Society Hardy Lecturer.

Miranda's research is at the crossroad of Differential Geometry, Mathematical Physics and Dynamical Systems. More recently, she added to her research agenda some mathematical aspects of theoretical computer science in connection to Fluid Dynamics.

More than a decade ago she pioneered the investigation of b-Poisson manifolds. These structures appear naturally in physical systems on manifolds with boundary and on problems on Celestial mechanics such as the 3-body problem. In 2021 in collaboration with this team she constructed a Turing complete 3D Euler flow. This result not only proves the existence of undecidable paths in hydrodynamics but also closes an open question in the field of computer science (the existence of "fluid computers"). Miranda's research strives to decipher the several levels of complexity in Geometry and Fluid Dynamics. She endeavours to extend Floer homology and the singular Arnold and Weinstein conjecture to the singular set-up motivated by the search of periodic orbits in Celestial Mechanics.

Miranda is an active member of the mathematical community, member of several international scientific panels and prize committees. She created an important school by supervising 10 PhD theses and several postdocs. She has been chercheur affiliée at Observatoire de Paris and honorary doctor at CSIC. She served as the EMS-SCM corresponding member, at the Governing Board of the BGSMath and the CRM Scientific Advisory Board. She is a member of the scientific committee at the RSME, a member of the Conseil d'Administration de l'Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, a member of the Spanish State Agency and the FNRS Panel in Natural Sciences. Since 2022 she is a member of the Ambizione Panel by the Swiss National Foundation.