Xavier Ros Oton receives European Research Council grant to research key equations for science and engineering
Xavier Ros Oton is a profesor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and researcher at ICREA.
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The results of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant call for proposals have been announced today. The ERC Consolidator Grants fund projects by researchers with between seven and twelve years of research experience since obtaining their PhD. Xavier Ros Oton, professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Barcelona and ICREA researcher, has obtained this prestigious grant, which will allow him to promote the research project Stable solutions and non-standard diffusions: PDE questions arising in Mathematical Physics).
Xavier Ros Oton is a profesor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and researcher at ICREA.
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Research
23/11/2023
The results of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant call for proposals have been announced today. The ERC Consolidator Grants fund projects by researchers with between seven and twelve years of research experience since obtaining their PhD. Xavier Ros Oton, professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Barcelona and ICREA researcher, has obtained this prestigious grant, which will allow him to promote the research project Stable solutions and non-standard diffusions: PDE questions arising in Mathematical Physics).
With a 1.6-million-euro funding, Ros Oton's project will address the theoretical study of partial differential equations. "These are equations that play a fundamental role in almost all sciences and engineering, and have been used in physics for more than 250 years", says the mathematician, who explains: "I seek to understand the mathematical properties of these equations and, in particular, the possible singularities that the solutions may develop".
Once the project is completed, "some mathematical questions that have been open for decades" will have been answered, says Ros Oton. One of the areas to be studied will be the concept of diffusion in physics, which appears in the description of heat or the evolution of gases, among other phenomena.
In this call for Consolidator Grants, a total of 308 researchers have been selected for an overall funding of 657 million euros. The countries with the most grants were Germany (66), the Netherlands (36), France (23) and Spain (23).
Once the project is completed, "some mathematical questions that have been open for decades" will have been answered, says Ros Oton. One of the areas to be studied will be the concept of diffusion in physics, which appears in the description of heat or the evolution of gases, among other phenomena.
In this call for Consolidator Grants, a total of 308 researchers have been selected for an overall funding of 657 million euros. The countries with the most grants were Germany (66), the Netherlands (36), France (23) and Spain (23).
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