Lefschetz Medal Winner: Tatiana Toro

Left to right: Marcelo Viana, Tatiana Toro, Gabriela Araujo, Gabriela Araujo, Betsy Stovall

Tatiana Toro is the Director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly MSRI, in Berkeley, California, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her primary research interests lie at the interface of partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, and geometric measure theory. Toro earned her Ph.D. in 1992 from Stanford University and her BS equivalent from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia in 1986. She was a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ (1992–1993). She was a Morrey Jr. Assistant Professor, University of California at Berkeley (1993-1994) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago (1994-1996).

Her honors include a Sloan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Simons Foundation Fellowships. She was an invited session speaker to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010 in Hyderabad, India. She is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Toro received the Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award from the University of Washington in 2019, and the Blackwell-Tapia Prize in 2020. Her research has been continuously supported by the National Science Foundation since 1994.

Toro serves as Vice President (2022-2026) of the International Mathematical Union. She served on the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) and on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of BIRS. She played a leading role in the creation of the Latinx in the Mathematical Sciences (LatMath) conferences at IPAM.