María J. Esteban

In her research she studies nonlinear partial differential equations, mainly by the use of variational methods, with applications to physics and quantum chemistry.

After undergraduate studies at the University of the Basque Country (Bilbao), she did her PhD thesis at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris), under the direction of Pierre-Louis Lions.

[1] Esteban was president of International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for the 2015–2019 term.

She became a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2016 "for distinguished research in partial differential equations and for advancing the profile of applied mathematics internationally.

"[5] She was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians[6] In 2019 she received the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession,[7] and became a member of the Academia Europaea.