Ignacio Sols

Ignacio Sols is Professor of Mathematics at Universidad Complutense of Madrid since 1982. He took his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Zaragoza in 1975. Then, he worked at the Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay) as Boursier de Haute Niveau of the French Government, and at the University of California at Berkeley as Research Associate until 1981. His research has focused on Algebraic Geometry and his present interest are its applications to Number Theory. He has supervised 7 doctoral theses and promoted the scientific work in Spain and abroad of another 7 research students. He has published about 50 articles in research journal of Mathematics, two of them in the Annals of Mathematics. He has been the founder of the research group GESTA, and has participated in many international mathematical conferences, acting as keynote speaker at the meeting of the American Mathematical Society (2003) and as chairman of the Algebraic Geometry session of the World Mathematical Conference in 2006.