Tatiana Toro awarded 2025 Solomon Lefschetz Medal

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Alicia Dickenstein (left) and Tatiana Toro (right), 2025 Solomon Lefschetz Medal winners

Tatiana Toro has been awarded the 2025 Solomon Lefschetz Medal by the Mathematical Council of the Americas, a network for professional mathematical societies and research institutes based in the Americas, which aims to highlight the excellence of mathematical achievements in the Americas and to foster the scientific integration of all mathematical communities in the continent. The medal is awarded every four years at the Mathematical Congress of the Americas (MCA) in recognition of excellence in research and contributions to the development of mathematics in the Americas.

Professor Toro currently serves as the Director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath). Previous awards and recognitions include a Sloan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Simons Foundation Fellowships. She has been an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, 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, FĂ­sicas y Naturales. She received the Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award from the University of Washington in 2019, and the Blackwell-Tapia Prize in 2020.

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