José María Martell

José María Martell is currently Vice-President for Scientific and Technical Research at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He is a Research Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT), where he has held the posts of Deputy Director and Director, and has also served as Director of the CSIC’s Centre for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. He obtained his PhD in Mathematical Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2001. Following his PhD, he undertook postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Missouri-Columbia (United States) and at the Université Paris-Sud – CNRS (France). In 2005, he was awarded a Ramón y Cajal grant at the CSIC, joining as a permanent member of staff in 2008. In 2013, he was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant, worth €1.4 million, to carry out the project CoG-HAPDEGMT-615112 “Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Geometric Measure Theory” during the period 2014–2019.

His research focuses on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and geometric measure theory. He is the author of over 80 scientific publications in high-impact journals in his field, has received more than 2,700 citations and has collaborated with over 60 co-authors from international institutions. Throughout his career, he has been a Miller’s Scholar at the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Roger Richardson Visiting Fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Institute of the Australian National University, a Research Member at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI, USA) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is currently an editor of the journals Advances in Calculus of Variations and Potential Analysis.