10 Facts About Artur Avila

Artur Avila is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such award.

Artur Avila has been a researcher at both the IMPA and the CNRS.

Artur Avila has been a professor at the University of Zurich since September 2018.

At the age of 19, Artur Avila began writing his doctoral thesis on the theory of dynamical systems.

Much of Artur Avila's work has been in the field of dynamical systems.

In March 2005, at age 26, Artur Avila and Svetlana Jitomirskaya proved the "conjecture of the ten martinis," a problem proposed by the American mathematical physicist Barry Simon.

Artur Avila became the youngest professorial fellow at the CNRS in 2008.

Artur Avila was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.

Artur Avila received the Early Career Award from the International Association of Mathematical Physics in 2012, TWAS Prize in 2013 and the Fields Medal in 2014.

Artur Avila was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.