Tadeusz Figiel

Tadeusz Figiel (born 2 July 1948 in Gdańsk) is a Polish mathematician specializing in functional analysis.

He received his doctorate in 1972 under the supervision of Aleksander Pełczyński[2] and then habilitated in 1975 with habilitation thesis O modułach wypukłości i gładkości (On modules of convexity and smoothness) at the Instytut Matematyczny Polskiej Academia Nauk [pl] (Instytut Matematyczny PAN).

He is the head of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editor-in-chief of the journal Studia Mathematica.

[3] Figiel received in 1976 the Stefan Banach Award, in 1988 the Polish State Award [pl] of First Degree (together with Zbigniew Ciesielski), in 1989 the Medal of the National Education Committee [pl], and in 2004 the Stefan Banach Medal.

In 1983 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.