Gonzalo Cao-Labora (EPFL)
Biography
I am a mathematical analyst working on nonlinear partial differential equations, mainly in mathematical fluid dynamics and in problems at the interface of analysis and geometry. My work often combines analytical techniques with rigorous computer-assisted proofs.
I received my PhD from MIT in 2024 under the supervision of Gigliola Staffilani, after undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Engineering Physics at UPC (Barcelona). Before joining EPFL, I was a Courant Instructor at the Courant Institute, New York University
News
2026 — Vicent Caselles Prize (Royal Spanish Mathematical Society – BBVA Foundation).
2026 — New preprints: counterexamples to Schiffer's conjecture (with J. de Dios Pont), inhomogeneous Einstein metrics on complex projective spaces (with A. Rodríguez-Vázquez) and instability of two-dimensional Taylor–Green vortices (with M. Colombo, M. Dolce and P. Ventura).
2025 — R. E. Moore Prize for Applications of Interval Analysis, with T. Buckmaster and J. Gómez-Serrano, for our paper on smooth implosion for compressible fluids (Forum of Mathematics, Pi).