1. Maryna Viazovska is a full professor and Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
12 Facts About Maryna Viazovska
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Maryna Viazovska attended a specialized secondary school for high-achieving students in science and technology, Kyiv Natural Science Lyceum No 145.
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Maryna Viazovska competed in domestic mathematics Olympiads when she was at high school, placing 13th in a national competition where 12 students were selected to a training camp before a six-member team for the International Mathematical Olympiad was chosen.
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Maryna Viazovska was a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Mathematical School and the Humboldt University of Berlin and a Minerva Distinguished Visitor at Princeton University.
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In 2016, Maryna Viazovska received the Salem Prize and, in 2017, the Clay Research Award and the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for her work on sphere packing and modular forms.
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Maryna Viazovska was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.
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Maryna Viazovska is one of the 2020 winners of the EMS Prize.
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Maryna Viazovska was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2021.
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Maryna Viazovska was appointed Senior Scholar at the Clay Mathematics Institute in July 2022.
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Maryna Viazovska was awarded the Fields Medal in July 2022, making her the second woman, the second person born in the Ukrainian SSR and the first with a degree from a Ukrainian university to ever receive it.
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Maryna Viazovska was honored as one of the BBC 100 Women in December 2022.
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Maryna Viazovska met her husband, Daniil Evtushinsky, at an after-school physics group for schoolchildren.