Gabriel Pedro Paternain is a

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

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. He is Professor of Mathematics in

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at the

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, and a fellow of

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. He obtained his

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from

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in Uruguay in 1987, and his PhD from the

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in 1991. He has lectured several undergraduate and graduate courses and has gained widespread popularity due to his entertaining and informal lecturing style, which has been recognised by the university in the past for its high calibre. He was managing editor of the mathematical journal ''

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'' for the period 2006-2011. He is known for his work on dynamical and geometrical aspects of Hamiltonian systems, in particular magnetic and geodesic flows. His recent research focuses on geometric inverse problems and his collaboration with Mikko Salo and

Gunther Uhlmann Gunther Alberto Uhlmann Arancibia (9 February 1952, Chile) is a mathematician whose research focuses on inverse problems and imaging, microlocal analysis, partial differential equations and invisibility. Education and career Uhlmann studied mathe ...

yielded solutions to several inverse problems in two dimensions, including the tensor tomography problemTensor tomography on surfaces, Invent. Math. 193 (2013) 229--247
/ref> and the proof of spectral rigidity of an Anosov surface. In his spare time he partakes in a wide variety of sports, notably football.

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