Jorge Milhazes Freitas

National Correspondent

Class
Sciences

Section
1st Section | Mathematics

Election

30.01.2020 (Corresponding Member)

Contact

jmfreitas [at] fc.up.pt

Areas of Interest

Dynamical Systems; Ergodic Theory; Extreme Value Theory; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Hyperlinks
https://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/jmfreita/

Profile

Jorge Milhazes Freitas is a full professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. He completed his PhD in Mathematics, in 2006, at the University of Porto and held an FCT postdoctoral fellowship hosted by the Centre de Physique Théorique, at Luminy, Marseille.

His research interests lie mostly in the areas of ergodic theory, dynamical systems, probability and extreme value theory. He has been studying statistical properties of dynamical systems, with special emphasis on the existence of limiting laws, which borrow some probabilistic predictability to the erratic behaviour of chaotic systems. In particular, he has dedicated himself to the study of extreme value laws and their connections with the recurrence properties of the systems. Together with Ana Cristina Moreira Freitas, he is considered a founder of the now-flourishing field of Extreme Value Theory for Dynamical Systems, comprising the probabilistic analysis of rare events for chaotic systems, with applications to meteorological models.

He has just been elected president of CIM, the International Centre of Mathematics, which is the Portuguese representative at ERCOM, an EMS committee aggregating European research centres on Mathematics. He is also the vice-president of CNM, the National Mathematical Committee created by FCT, which is the Portuguese representative at IMU. He is currently coordinator of the joint PhD programme in Mathematics of the universities of Coimbra and Porto. He was the director of CMUP, the research centre of Mathematics of the University of Porto, between 2017 and 2021. He has also served as vice-president of SPM, the Portuguese Mathematical Society, between 2020 and 2022 and vice-president of CIM between 2016 and 2020. He is an associate editor of two international journals and served as editor in chief of the CIM Bulletin. He has coordinated 3 research projects funded by FCT and was a member of the steering committee of a European project.

He is coauthor of the book  Extremes and Recurrence in Dynamical Systems (Wiley, 2016) and published 38 research journal articles, many of which appeared in top journals in the areas of Mathematics, Mathematical Physics and Probability.

He was the recipient, in 2008, of the prize ‘José Anastácio da Cunha’, awarded by the Portuguese Mathematical Society and has been elected corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, in 2020.