Vlad Cristian Vicol

Vlad Vicol is a Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science at New York University. 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.”