Luis Vázquez Martínez is a Spanish applied mathematician. He is a professor of

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in the faculty of

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of the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

.. Vázquez was born on January 26, 1949, in Narayola, a town in the municipality of

Camponaraya Camponaraya () (Camponaraia in Galician language) is a village and municipality located in the region of El Bierzo (province of León, Castile and León, Spain) . According to the 2010 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 4,230 inh ...

. He earned a

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in physical sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1971, and a doctorate in physical sciences from the

University of Zaragoza The University of Zaragoza, sometimes referred to as Saragossa University () is a public university with teaching campuses and research centres spread over the three provinces of Aragon, Spain. Founded in 1542, it is one of the oldest universiti ...

in 1975, under the supervision of Antonio Fernández-Rañada Menéndez de Luarca. After working as a Visiting Research Associate at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, he returned to the Complutense University as an assistant professor in 1977. In 1995 the

Shanghai University of Science and Technology The Shanghai University of Science and Technology (SUST; ) was a public university in Shanghai, China. The Shanghai University of Technology (), the Shanghai University of Science and Technology (), Shanghai University, and the Shanghai Institu ...

gave him an honorary doctorate. Since 2005 has been a national corresponding member of the

Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences The Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (Spanish: ''Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales'') is an academic institution and learned society that was founded in Madrid in 1847. It is dedicated to the study and research of mathemat ...

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