Judit Muñoz Matute, Postdoctoral Fellow at BCAM, selected to join the European Mathematical Society Young Academy 2024-2027 Committee

• EMYA provides a platform for the next generation of mathematicians to discuss and plan the future of European mathematics, organize activities through the European Mathematical Society, and advise EMS on its actions and priorities.
   
• Judit Muñoz Matute is a Postdoc Fellow in Mathematical Design, Modelling, and Simulations at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics.

Judit Muñoz Matute, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mathematical Design, Modelling, and Simulations line at BCAM, has been selected to join the committee of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) Young Academy for the period 2024 - 2027.

The mathematical community needs to strengthen the role and perspective of the young generation of mathematicians in Europe. They should be supported in their mathematical development and professional prospects, but they should also be better integrated into the development of EMS and its decision-making processes. By better understanding the needs of their young generation, they will contribute to providing better and new impulses to the development of EMS. Therefore, aware of this, the EMS Council in 2022 approved the creation of the EMS Young Academy (European Mathematical Young Academy).

"It is an honor for me to be part of EMYA, and I thank both BCAM and SeMA for nominating me for this position. It is essential that EMS has the vision of its younger generation for decision-making. In these four years, I hope to contribute my bit by making proposals and promoting various initiatives to contribute to the representation and support of young European mathematicians", declares Judit Muñoz Matute.

She and the rest of the committee members are invited to serve for four years, thus becoming members of this platform that seeks to enable the next generation of mathematicians to discuss and plan the future of European mathematics, organize activities through EMS, and advise EMS on its actions and priorities.

Judit Muñoz Matute is a Postdoc Fellow at BCAM and currently also coordinates BCAM's participation in IN-DEEP, an MSCA Doctoral Network project for training doctoral students in Deep Learning (DL) techniques, aimed at promoting training and research in new deep learning technologies for inverse problems.

In addition, from 2021 to 2023, she conducted a 3-year research stay at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Muñoz Matute obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and Operations Research at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 2014 and 2015, respectively. In 2019, she obtained a doctorate with International Mention from the same University in the area of Numerical Simulation of Partial Differential Equations.
During her doctorate, she participated in several research projects funded by the European Union (Horizon 2020 projects: GEAGAM and MATHROCKS), which allowed her to carry out several research stays at different universities worldwide: Curtin University (Perth, Australia), UPCV (Valparaíso, Chile), UT Austin (Texas, USA), and the University of Nottingham (UK). In 2020, she was awarded the Vicent Caselles Mathematical Research Prize by the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME) and the BBVA Foundation. She was also chosen as the Spanish candidate for the ECCOMAS European awards for the best doctoral thesis in 2019 in the field of Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering by the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics (SeMA).

In 2021, she obtained a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for the realization of a research project in which she is the Principal Investigator, in collaboration with BCAM and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.