The announcement was made at the EMS convention in Seville, private broadcaster RMF24 reported on Tuesday.
Jendrej, affiliated with the Sorbonne in Paris, was recognized for his work on the dynamics of nonlinear partial differential equations. Kanigowski, who splits his time between the University of Maryland and Poland’s Jagiellonian University, was honored for his research on chaos in dynamical systems, including the butterfly effect.
The EMS prize, established in 1992, honors mathematicians under 35 who have made significant contributions to the field and have European citizenship or work in Europe. The prize is considered a precursor to the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics. Notably, 15 of the 80 previous EMS prize winners have gone on to receive the Fields Medal.
Kanigowski received his PhD from the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2015 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Pennsylvania State University. Since 2018, he has been with the University of Maryland and joined Jagiellonian University in 2022. He manages the flagship project at the Central European Mathematical Research Lab and has received numerous accolades, including awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the International Banach Prize, and the Kazimierz Kuratowski Prize.
Jendrej, a graduate of the University of Warsaw, earned his PhD from École Polytechnique in 2016. He currently works at CNRS and the Sorbonne in Paris. His awards include the 2019 Prix Claude-Antoine Peccot from the Collège de France, the Julius Paul Schauder Prize, and a prestigious ERC Starting Grant in 2023.
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Source: RMF24