Person

Rodriguez Hertz, Federico

1973

Professor of mathematics at Penn State, has been selected to receive the 2017 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Physical Sciences; the 2015 Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems; an invitation to give an address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010 in Hyderabad, India; a 2009 award from the Mathematical Union for Latin America and the Caribbean; and a 2005 Premio Roberto Caldeyro Barcia Award from Uruguay's Basic Science Development Program; Rodríguez Hertz was a professor of mathematics in the engineering school at the Universidad de la República in Uruguay, where he had served as a faculty member since 2002. He earned a doctoral degree at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Brazil in 2001.