Artur Avila

Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo is a Brazilian and naturalized French mathematician, born on 29 June 1979, working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal and the first Latin American and lusophone to win the award. At the age of 16 he won a gold medal at the 1995 International Mathematical Olympiad and began an M.S. degree at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, where he received his PhD in 2001. In 2005 he and Svetlana Jitomirskaya proved the conjecture of the ten martinis proposed by Barry Simon, and later that year he and Marcelo Viana proved the Zorich-Kontsevich conjecture. He has worked as a researcher for the CNRS since 2003 and has been a professor at the University of Zurich since September 2018.