Adam Kanigowski

Adam Kanigowski (born 15 April 1989) is a Polish mathematician specializing in dynamical systems and ergodic theory. He is a professor at the University of Maryland.

Education Kanigowski was born in Toruń. and his Ph.D. in 2015 from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Mariusz Lemańczyk and Joanna Kułaga-Przymus. His dissertation was entitled Własności ergodyczne gładkich potoków na powierzchniach (Ergodic properties of smooth flows on surfaces) and awarded the International Stefan Banach Prize in 2016.

Career and research After graduating, Kanigowski joined Penn State University as an S. Chowla Research Assistant Professor in 2015 and then joined UMD as an assistant professor in 2018, where he was promoted to full professor in 2024. Since December 2022, Kanigowski has led a flagship project at Jagiellonian University that partly supports a research collaboration with UMD.

Kanigowski has published more than 30 papers in premier mathematical journals including the most prestigious ones, such as Annals of Mathematics, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and Inventiones Mathematicae. He was the 2016 winner of the International Stefan Banach Prize for a doctoral dissertation in the mathematical sciences. In March 2024, the Simons Foundation named Kanigowski a 2024 Simons Fellow in Mathematics, In June 2024 he finished his first Ironman triathlon.