Eugenia Malinnikova


Eugenia Malinnikova is a mathematician, winner of the 2017 Clay Research Award which she shared with Aleksandr Logunov "in recognition of their introduction of a novel geometric combinatorial method to study doubling properties of solutions to elliptic eigenvalue problems".
She competed three times in the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning three Gold medals.
She got her Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State University in 1999, under the supervision of Viktor Petrovich Havin. Currently she works as a professor of mathematics at Stanford University after previously working at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In 2018 she was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She is also a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.