Svitlana Mayboroda (; born 1981) is a Ukrainian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the

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. and

ETH Zurich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

Research

Mayboroda's research concerns

harmonic analysis Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with investigating the connections between a function and its representation in frequency. The frequency representation is found by using the Fourier transform for functions on unbounded do ...

geometric measure theory and

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to ho ...

s, including

boundary value problem In the study of differential equations, a boundary-value problem is a differential equation subjected to constraints called boundary conditions. A solution to a boundary value problem is a solution to the differential equation which also satis ...

s for

elliptic partial differential equation In mathematics, an elliptic partial differential equation is a type of partial differential equation (PDE). In mathematical modeling, elliptic PDEs are frequently used to model steady states, unlike parabolic PDE and hyperbolic PDE which gene ...

s. In particular, her work has provided a new mathematical approach to

Anderson localization In condensed matter physics, Anderson localization (also known as strong localization) is the absence of diffusion of waves in a ''disordered'' medium. This phenomenon is named after the American physicist P. W. Anderson, who was the first to su ...

, a phenomenon in physics in which waves are confined to a local region rather than propagating throughout a medium, and has enjoyed wide ranging applications in condensed matter physics, cold atoms systems, research and engineering of organic and nonorganic semiconductor materials and devices.

Education and career

Mayboroda was born on June 2, 1981, in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

. She earned the Ukrainian equivalent of two master's degrees, one in finance and one in applied mathematics, from the

University of Kharkiv The V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (), also known as Kharkiv National University or Karazin University, is a public university in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasily Karazin, becoming the second old ...

in 2001, and completed her Ph.D. in 2005 from the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

under the supervision of Marius Mitrea. After visiting positions at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

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, and

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

, she joined the

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faculty in 2008, and moved to the University of Minnesota in 2011. In 2023, she joined the ETH Zurich faculty.

Recognition

Mayboroda was a Sloan Research Fellow for 2010–2015. In 2013, she became the inaugural winner of the Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis of the

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

.. In 2015 she was elected as a

fellow A fellow is a title and form of address for distinguished, learned, or skilled individuals in academia, medicine, research, and industry. The exact meaning of the term differs in each field. In learned society, learned or professional society, p ...

of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

. In 2016, she was awarded the first Northrop Professorship at the University of Minnesota. and in 2020 she became the McKnight Presidential Professor.. She was an invited speaker at the 2018

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...

, speaking in the section on Analysis and Operator Algebras. She became the 2023 National Blavatnik Laureate in Physical Sciences & Engineering, given to an outstanding scientist under the age of 42.url= http://blavatnikawards.org/news/items/2023-blavatnik-national-awards-young-scientists-announced/ That same year, she was elected to the European Academy of Sciences.. She is the founder and the Director of the Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves..

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