Elba Garcia-Failde, former Hadamard postdoctoral researcher at the IPHT and member of Bertrand Eynard’s ERC ReNewQuantum project from 2020 to 2025, has just received the Dubrovin Medal.
The Dubrovin medal recognizes exceptionally promising young researchers who have already made outstanding contributions to the fields of mathematical physics and geometry.
Elba Garcia-Failde was recognized for her work on Topological Recursion with applications to integrable hierarchies and enumerative geometry, in particular for proving Witten’s conjecture for negative spins.
She had previously been awarded the Hadamard Fellowship in Mathematical Physics in 2018, which she held for two years as a postdoc at the IPHT. From 2020 to 2025, she remained affiliated with the IPHT through Bertrand Eynard’s ERC ReNewQuantum project. Notably, she co-organized, via the IPHT, the 2024 August Les Houches School of Physics on Quantum Geometry.