The 2024 "Prix Schläfli" for Mathematics has been awarded to Jonathan
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The Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) has awarded the "Prix Schläfli" for 2024 for a doctoral work in mathematics to Jonathan Gruber for his thesis "Generic direct summands of tensor products for simple algebraic groups and quantum groups at roots of unity", obtained in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Donna Testerman.
The "Prix Schläfli" is awarded to doctoral students who have completed their thesis work at a Swiss university in a natural science discipline. It is one of the oldest prizes in Switzerland, having been awarded for the first time in 1866.
This year's prize has been awarded to Gilles Antoniazza (Geosciences, University of Lausanne), Jonathan Gruber (Mathematics, EPFL), Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen (Biology, University of Zurich) and Julia Reisenbauer (Chemistry, ETH Zurich).
In his thesis, "Generic direct summands of tensor products for simple algebraic groups and quantum groups at roots of unity", Jonathan Gruber studies the representation theory of certain algebraic structures, obtaining remarkably general results which have earned him recognition among experts in this field.
Jonathan Gruber left EPFL at the end of his thesis and is currently at the University of York in the UK, thanks to a Postdoc Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation.