PRESS RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE
Professor Carme Cascante (Universitat de Barcelona), appointed as new Director of the BGSMath
The five member-institutions that constitute the BGSMath (CRM, UB, UAB, UPC, UPF) have elected the new Director, University of Barcelona Professor Carme Cascante, who will replace Prof. Marta Sanz.
This past November 11th, the Governing Board of the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics has elected University of Barcelona Professor Carme Cascante as its new Director. Carme Cascante has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of Barcelona since 1989. She did her thesis at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and she was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1988-1989 and in 1990 and at University of Tsukuba in 1991. She has also served as the Dean of the Mathematics Faculty of the UB.
Her main scientific interests and contributions are on function theory in spaces of holomorphic functions and Harmonic Analysis.
The Board would like to express its deep gratitude to the former Director, Professor Marta Sanz-Solé (Universitat de Barcelona), for the all the work devoted during her tenure as Director of the BGSMath. Her efforts have been key in the strengthening of the BGSMath structure and completing the goals set by the Maria the Maeztu Unit of Excellence project.