• Her leadership comes as CRM celebrates 40 years as Spain’s oldest and internationally renowned mathematics research centre.

The Governing Board of the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) approved the appointment of Professor Carme Cascante Canut as the new director of the centre in its meeting on July 2. Cascante, a professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Barcelona (UB), succeeds Lluís Alsedà i Soler in this position.

Professor Cascante brings an extensive academic and research career to her new leadership role at CRM. She has been a professor at UB since 1989, where, in addition to her teaching and research activities, she served as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Director of the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (BGSMath). She earned her PhD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) under the supervision of Professor Joaquim Bruna, a former director of the CRM himself. Her primary research areas focus on complex analysis in one and several variables, particularly, the study of Carleson measures, pointwise multipliers, Hankel and Toeplitz operators on spaces of holomorphic functions in the unit ball. I am also interested in bilinear forms on Sobolev spaces.

Her appointment marks a pivotal moment of transition and renewal for CRM, as she is the first director from one of the recently affiliated universities. This shift highlights the centre’s dedication to fully integrating the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) into both its research framework and governance.