Enrique Zuazua, Eibar, Basque Country – Spain, 1961, is a Disntiguished Research Professor at Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science in BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics that he founded in 2008 as Scientific Director. He is also Professor-in-leave of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). He is also an honorary member of Jakiunde, the Basque Academy of Sciences, Letters and Humanities. He holds a degree in mathematics from the University of the Basque Country, and a dual PhD degree from the same university (1987) and from the "Université Pierre et Marie Curie" in Paris (1988). In 1990 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2001 he moved to the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

He has been awarded the Euskadi (Basque Country) Prize for Science and Technology 2006 and the National Julio Rey Pastor Prize 2007 in Mathematics and Information and Communication Technology, the Advanced Grant NUMERIWAVES of the ERC in 2010, and more recently the best article prize of Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré for the year 2008 (joint with Th. Duyckaerts and X. Zhang).

With over 200 articles published, his work has had an important impact and he was recognized as a “Highly Cited Researcher" by the ISI Institute (Thomson) in 2004, also he has supervised 21 postdoctoral researchers and 25 PhD students.

His fields of expertise in the area of Applied Mathematics cover topics related with Partial Differential Equations, Systems Control and Numerical Analysis.

He is the editor-in-chief of “ESAIM:COCV" and member of the editorial committee of other Journals and of scientific committees of various centres and agencies.

In the fall semester of 2013-2014 he was a visiting Professor of the “Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions” of the “Université Pierre et Marie Curie” with the support of the Paris City Hall. In the spring semester of 2013-2014 he hold a CIMI Chair at the CIMI – Centre International de Mathématiques et Informatique of Toulouse. He received the 2013 Humboldt Research Award and he is a Visiting professor of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.

Since September 2009 he runs, in cooperation with the journalist Xabier Lapitz a Radio Program at Onda Vasca on various topics related to Mathematics, Higher Education and Research.

He is also the author of the columns "Matemanías" and "con-CIENCIA" at the basque dayly newspaper Deia and the weekly one Zazpika-Gara.