NYU Shanghai Professor of Mathematics Alejandro Ramirez has been named a recipient of the Humboldt Prize, also known as Humboldt Research Award, a prestigious honor recognizing his outstanding contributions to research.
“I am very grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and to the German nominators and happy to see through this prize a recognition of the research I have done throughout my career valued by the mathematical community,” Professor Ramirez said. “It also represents the strong bond I have developed with part of the German probabilistic community through the collaborators and students I have worked with there, beginning with German mathematician Jürgen Gärtner in 2005.”
Established by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1972, the Humboldt Research Awards recognize leading scholars from around the world whose work has helped shape their fields, while also fostering long-term academic exchange.
As part of the award, Professor Ramirez will receive EUR 80,000 to support a research project of his choice. He has also been invited to spend six to 12 months in Germany, where he will strengthen his scientific collaboration with local academic partners.
During his time there, he plans to continue his research in Random Walks in Random Environments, the KPZ universality class, and stochastic partial differential equations, collaborating with scholars at institutions including the Technical University of Berlin, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Münster, and the University of Cologne.
Professor Ramirez is also the Area Head of Mathematics at NYU Shanghai and an Associated Professor at NYU’s Courant Institute. Before joining NYU Shanghai, he held appointments at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, École Polytechnique in France, and EPFL in Switzerland.
“We are immensely proud that Professor Alejandro Ramirez has been recognized with a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,” said NYU Shanghai Provost Bei Wu. “This honor, which celebrates a scholar’s entire body of work, is a testament not only to Professor Ramirez’s profound contributions to mathematics, but also to the strength of scholarship at NYU Shanghai and the global impact our faculty continue to make.”