Juan Luis Vázquez Suárez is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain.
In the years 1964/69 he studied Telecommunication Engineering at the Superior Technical School of Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT) in Madrid.
Outstanding researcher in concrete areas of the mathematics such as nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications.
He obtained the Spanish National Prize of Research in Mathematics (Premio Nacional de Investigación Julio Rey Pastor) in 2003, and that year he was included in the Thomson Reuters list of Highly Cited Scientists.
He was invited as main speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Madrid in 2006 (ICM2006) with the plenary conference entitled "Nonlinear diffusion, from analysis to physics and geometry."