Xavier Ros-Oton
Spanish mathematician
Xavier Ros Oton (Barcelona, 1988) is a Spanish mathematician who works on partial differential equations (PDEs).
He is an ICREA Research Professor and a Full Professor at the University of Barcelona.
Research
His research is mainly focused on topics related to the regularity of solutions to nonlinear elliptic and parabolic PDE.
Some of his main contributions have been in the context of free boundary problems, integro-differential equations, and the calculus of variations.
Career
He earned his Bachelor's and master's degree at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 2010 and 2011, and completed his PhD in 2014 under the supervision of Xavier Cabré.
He then moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where he was an R. H. Bing Instructor, and worked with Alessio Figalli and Luis Caffarelli.
After that, he was an assistant professor at the University of Zurich. Since 2020, Ros-Oton is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona.
He is a member of the editorial board of scientific journals, including Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations and Collectanea Mathematica.
In October 2022 was elected Académico Correspondiente of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. He is the youngest member of the academy.
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