IMTech researcher Eva Miranda awarded Bessel Prize by Humboldt Foundation

IMTech reserarcher Eva Miranda has won the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This award is given to her as a researcher of excellence who has achieved significant recognition for scientific contributions. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel has internationally renowned foreign academics in recognition of their outstanding research achievements to date and their outstanding promise for the future. The prize was established in 2001 and is aimed at scientists from all over the world (except Germans). Eva Miranda had been nominated for this award by the University of Cologne  (Universität zu Köln).

As the winner of the award, Miranda will carry on long-term research projects of her own choice in Germany by intensifying her collaborations with the teams of the University of Cologne and Heidelberg and will focus mainly on the development of Contact and Floer Topology techniques for the study of periodic orbits. In particular, in the study of the so-called traps and plugs developed by Professor Geiges in this context. Various collaborations in geometric quantization and study of toric varieties are also planned.

Eva Miranda is Full Professor at the Mathematics Department at UPC distinguished with two consecutive ICREA Academia Awards (2016, 2021) at (UPC), member of CRM and IMTECH. She is the director of the Laboratory of Geometry and Dynamical Systems and the group leader of GEOMVAP (Geometry of Varieties and Applications).