Vega González, Luis

Luis Vega González (Madrid, 1960) graduated in Mathematics at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1982.  In 1988 he gained a doctorate from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and, after spending two-years at the University of Chicago, he returned to the UAM. In 1993 he joined the University of the Basque Country, where he has been Full Professor of Mathematical Analysis since 1995.

Professor Vega is currently the principal investigator of the Severo Ochoa accreditation at the BCAM (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics) and a world-renowned expert in partial differential equations and Fourier analysis. He has been Vice-Chair of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society (RSME) and a member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics (SEMA), and is currently Officer-at-Large of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). He is also a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences.

During his long career, Professor Vega has received awards for his research work on several occasions: in 2012 he received the Euskadi Research Award and was elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (Inaugural Class); in 2015 he received the Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics; the Julio Rey Pastor National Prize in 2021 and the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society Medal in 2023.

He has also led the HADE (Harmonic Analysis and Differential Equations: New Challenges) project financed by the European Research Council.

Luis Vega was elected a full member of Jakiunde on 17 November 2023.