The winner of the Functional Analysis Award 2025

Dr. Rubén Medina has been selected as the distinguished winner of the 15th Functional Analysis Award in the year 2025.

Mohammad Sal Moslehian Feb 17, 2025

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Rubén Medina, a former Ph.D. student of Professors Ginés López Pérez and Petr Hájek at Czech Technical University in Prague, is the recipient of the 15th Functional Analysis Award 2025.

This prestigious award honors his exceptional contributions to the fields of functional analysis, operator theory, and related areas. The following five outstanding works have not only advanced the discipline but also earned the highest esteem and admiration from the referee committee:

Medina, Rubén. On the constant of Lipschitz approximability. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 377 (2024), no. 4, 2925--2945.
Medina, Rubén. Compact Hölder retractions and nearest point maps. Adv. Math. 428 (2023), Paper No. 109140, 13 pp.
Hájek, Petr; Medina, Rubén. Compact retractions and Schauder decompositions in Banach spaces. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.376 (2023), no. 2, 1343–1372.
López-Pérez, Ginés; Medina, Rubén. The equivalence between CPCP and strong regularity under Krein-Milman property. J. Funct. Anal.286 (2024), no. 4, Paper No. 110273, 20 pp.
Dantas, Sheldon; Medina, Rubén. On holomorphic functions attaining their weighted norms. Rev. R. Acad. Cienc. Exactas Fís. Nat. Ser. A Mat. 119 (2025), no. 1, Paper No. 14.

This year the referee committee includes Professors Eva A. Gallardo Gutiérrez, Fritz Gesztesy, Gilles Godefroy, William B. Johnson, Victor Nistor, Adam Skalski, Ilya M. Spitkovsky, Dirk Werner, and myself. I also express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Pin Wu and her colleagues at Springer for their generous and continued sponsorship of this award over the years.

Congratulations to Rubén on this well-deserved honor!

Best wishes,

M. S. Msolehian

Founder and Manager of the Award