Juan Pablo De Rasis has been awarded the Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.

The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation. Less than forty of these exceptional awards were made this year among the most outstanding students from 94 doctoral programs across the entire OSU campus. The fellowship fully supports recipients for three consecutive semesters.

Juan Pablo joined our PhD program in 2020, after completing his Bachelor's degree at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. He distinguished himself by winning an impressive eight prizes in national mathematical Olympiads for undergraduate students. Juan Pablo elected Professor Jennifer Park as his dissertation advisor at the end of his first year of doctoral study and started research at the intersection of Mathematical Logic and Number Theory.

Now in his fifth year, Juan Pablo has already submitted two research papers to reputable mathematical journals -- one as a sole author and the other co-authored with a second-year PhD student. He is tackling an exciting and challenging open problem (Hilbert's Tenth Problem) from a completely new angle, and his research thus places him at the forefront of researchers in mathematical logic.