Vlad Vicol Elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 23, 2026

Vlad Vicol, Professor of Mathematics, was among the 2026 Fellows elected by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

“We celebrate the achievement of each new member and the collective breadth and depth of their excellence—this is a fitting commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary,” said Academy President Laurie Patton. “The founding of the nation and the Academy are rooted in the inextricable links between a vibrant democracy, the free pursuit of knowledge, and the expansion of the public good.”

Vlad Vicol is a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science. He works in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations, focusing on models arising in fluid dynamics. He has primarily worked on understanding how certain complicated fluid and motion equations behave—when their solutions stay smooth versus becoming irregular, what happens when fluid resistance becomes extremely small, and how to describe turbulent flows. Vicol has been named a Simons Investigator in Mathematics and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He has received the Sloan Research Fellowship and Clay Research Prize. Most recently, Vicol was awarded the 2025 Fermat Prize for “deep and transformative breakthroughs in the mathematical analysis of equations of fluid mechanics and turbulence.”

You can read more about NYU's faculty memebr elected to the Academy this year on NYU News.