Associate Professor Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman

Cecilia is a professor in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland. After completing undergraduate studies at Universidad de Guanajuato / CIMAT and PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park, she held research fellowships from the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and the Australian Research Council (ARC). She has also held a Promoting Women Fellowship by UQ.

Cecilia is an expert in the field of random dynamical systems (RDS). Along with collaborators, she has developed a framework for the study of transport in RDS, relying on the so-called Lyapunov–Oseledets spectrum. Her key contributions include the development of tools and algorithms to (i) approximate coherent structures and Lyapunov exponents, (ii) establish limit laws and quantify fluctuations, (iii) develop a thermodynamic formalism and (iv) optimise mixing. Her work also includes significant advances on data assimilation, metastable and dynamical systems.

Cecilia has received significant research funding from the Australian Research Council, including a 2016 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), ARC DPs in 2018 and 2022, and a 2024 ARC Future Fellowship. She has led or co-led competitive applications for conference funding (20-60 participants), including 2023 & 2026 MATRIX Workshops, co-funded by the MATRIX-Simons Collaborative Fund, an Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) funded Mathsfest Workshop (ANU, 2016), a Banff International Research Station Workshop (Canada, 2015) and a BIRS-CMO Workshop (Mexico, 2018).

Cecilia has been invited to deliver over a hundred invited lectures, seminars and colloquia in almost twenty countries, including invited/keynote addresses at 2026 Dynamics Days Europe (Lisbon), 2025 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (Denver), 2025 AustMS annual conference (LaTrobe University, AU), ANZIAM 2023 annual conference (Cairns, AU), 2014 International Workshop Set Oriented Numerics (University of Canterbury, NZ), 2017 Workshop Ergodic Theory, Algorithms & Rigorous Computations (U Warwick, UK), 2017 EMALCA (Latin-American & Caribbean Math School, Mexico); and to participate at invitation-only workshops at AIM, Brin MRC, NITMB (USA), BIRS (Canada), Bernoulli Center (Switzerland), CMO (Mexico), CIRM (France), Centro De Giorgi (Italy), Isaac Newton Institute (UK), Lorentz Center (Netherlands) and MATRIX (Australia).

Cecilia's service roles include: MATRIX Scientific Committee (2019-), Australian Mathematical Society council (2018-2021) and Queensland representative at the ANZIAM Executive Committee (2019-2021), as well as School of Mathematics and Physics Director of Research (2022-).