Nominations of EPFL professors

© 2022 EPFL - The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL. Professor Martin Hairer, winner of the Fields Medal in 2014, is appointed to the School of Basic Sciences. Professor Martin Hairer, currently Full Professor at Imperial College London, United Kingdom, as Full Professor of Mathematics in the School of Basic Sciences (SB) - Martin Hairer is a mathematician globally renowned for his breakthrough work at the intersection of analysis and probability. In 2014 he won the Fields Medal for visionary work which introduced a radical new way of constructing solutions for certain nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations which had been intractable before, and which are of great importance in particular to physics. The appointment of Martin Hairer to EPFL will give strong impetus to analysis in particular and mathematics in general, consolidating EPFL as one of the world's leading centres for analysis. EPFL - Dr Maria Brbic, currently Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, USA, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Communication Systems in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) - Maria Brbic's research deals with machine learning in the field of biomedicine. She has carried out pioneering work and developed new machine learning methods that have led to biomedical discoveries.