Ramanujan Prize 2025 Announced

ICTP and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) have awarded the 2025 Ramanujan Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries to Claudio Muñoz of the University of Chile for his fundamental contributions to dispersive partial differential equations. The award recognizes his remarkable work on the long-time behaviour of solutions to fundamental equations of mathematical physics, in particular on the asymptotic stability of soliton solutions and the dynamics of multi-solitons.

Muñoz is a professor at the University of Chile, a principal investigator at the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM), Chile and chargé de recherche on leave at the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS). His research interests are in nonlinear dispersive equations, a special class of partial differential equations that includes some of the most important equations of physics, such as the Schrödinger equation and the wave equation.

Muñoz studied at the University of Chile and obtained a PhD in mathematics from the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, under the supervision of Yvan Martel and Frank Merle, followed by a postdoc at the University of Chicago, before becoming a professor at the University of Chile.

About the Ramanujan Prize
 
The Ramanujan Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries has been awarded annually since 2005 and is administered jointly by ICTP and IMU. It is usually awarded to one person, but may be shared equally among recipients who have contributed to the same body of work. 
 
The Prize is awarded to a researcher from a developing country who is less than 45 years of age on 31 December of the year of the award, and who has conducted outstanding research under difficult conditions in a developing country. Researchers working in any branch of the mathematical sciences are eligible. The Prize carries a $10,000 cash award.
 
The Prize selection committee consists of eminent mathematicians appointed in consultation between the ICTP and the IMU.