Joan Bagaria

Joan Bagaria Pigrau (born August 17, 1958) is a Catalan mathematician, logician and set theorist at ICREA and University of Barcelona. He has made many contributions concerning forcing, large cardinals, infinite combinatorics and their applications to other areas of mathematics.

Early life (1958 – 1992)
Bagaria was born in 1958 in Manlleu, Catalonia, Spain. He earned a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Barcelona in 1981, and an M.A. in philosophy there in 1984. He earned his PhD in Logic & the Methodology of Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 under the supervision of Haim Judah and W. Hugh Woodin. He also held various other positions at UC Berkeley between January 1986 and May 1992, including as a reader, a graduate student instructor, a junior specialist, and a summer session instructor.

Career (1992 – present)
In June 1992, Bagaria returned to Spain as an invited researcher at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, where he remained until that September. From October 1992 to September 1995, he was an interim research professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He was an invited professor at Pompeu Fabra University from October 1995 to September 1996. Then, he returned to the Autonomous University of Barcelona to again serve as an interim research professor, where he remained until October 2001.

Since 2001, he has been ICREA Research Professor at University of Barcelona. He served as the first president of the European Set Theory Society (2007–11).

His research work is widely cited, and he has given talks to the general public. He has had nine PhD students.

Personal life
He is also an active Catalan independentist.