Eugenia Malinnikova (born 9 November 1974) is a mathematician, winner of the 2017 Clay Research Award which she shared with Aleksandr Logunov "in recognition of their introduction of a novel geometric combinatorial method to study doubling properties of solutions to elliptic eigenvalue problems". [1]
As a high school student, she competed three times in the International Mathematical Olympiad. She is the highest-scoring female contestant in IMO history. She has 3 Gold medals in IMO, awarded in 1989 (41/42 points), IMO 1990 (42/42) and IMO 1991 (42/42). [2] She is a member of the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame. [3]
She got her PhD from St. Petersburg State University in 1999, under the supervision of Viktor Petrovich Havin. [4] Currently she works as a professor of mathematics at Stanford University [5] after previously working at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
In 2018 she was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. [6] She is also a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters [7] and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. [8] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2024 class of fellows. [9]