Each year, the Council of the LMS considers the election of Honorary Members of the Society amongst distinguished mathematicians who are not normally resident within the United Kingdom. The election of Honorary Members is made by Council, subject to confirmation by the Society at an Ordinary Meeting.
There is no statutory limit on the number of Honorary Members that can be elected in any year, and there is no constraint on the time or frequency of such elections.
Honorary Members in 2025
The London Mathematical Society has elected the following people to Honorary Membership of the Society in 2025:
Professor Nalini Joshi (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Professor Melanie Matchett Wood (Harvard University, USA)
Professor Shing-Tung Yau (Tsinghua University, China and Harvard University, USA)
Brief citations:
Professor Nalini Joshi is a world-leading mathematician whose pioneering work has transformed the field of integrable systems. She is internationally recognised for introducing geometric and asymptotic methods to study discrete and continuous nonlinear equations, particularly the Painlevé equations. Her groundbreaking use of algebraic geometry – specifically rational surfaces – to analyse discrete Painlevé equations has revealed new behaviours of transcendental solutions and unified previously disconnected areas of mathematics. Read the full citation.
Professor Melanie Matchett Wood’s groundbreaking work in arithmetic statistics elegantly combines ideas from arithmetic and algebraic geometry, topology, probability and random groups. She has pioneered the development of the non-abelian Cohen–Lenstra–Martinet programme. Other major contributions include proving cases of the Cohen–Lenstra–Martinet heuristics, several theorems supporting their analogues in the function field setting, and proving cases of Malle’s conjecture. Read the full citation.
Professor Shing-Tung Yau is a seminal figure in modern global analysis, the applications of analytic methods to differential and algebraic geometry. He is best known for his resolution of the Calabi conjecture on the existence of Kaehler metrics with prescribed Ricci curvatures on compact complex manifolds, which was achieved through a delicate study of complex Monge Ampere equations, non-linear partial differential equations whose study was revolutionised by this research. Read the full citation.
Full list of Honorary Members (PDF)