Svitlana Mayboroda - Biography#

Svitlana Mayboroda is Professor of Mathematics at ETH Zurich. Before moving to ETH, she was McKnight Presidential Professor at University of Minnesota. She received a Master's degree in 2001 from Kharkiv National University, Ukraine and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 2005 from University of Missouri at Columbia. Svitlana Mayboroda's work lies at the interface between partial differential equations, analysis, and geometric measure theory, and has enjoyed wide ranging applications in condensed matter physics, cold atoms systems, research and engineering of organic and nonorganic semiconductor materials and devices. She is the founder and the Director of the Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves and the Simons Initiative on the Geometry of Flows. She has won multiple international awards for her research and is not only regarded as a leading scientist in her field, but also as an effective mentor and a role model.