Dr. Tatiana Toro is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington and, in August 2022, she began a five-year term as Director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath, formerly known as MSRI) in Berkeley, California. Her primary research interest lies in the interface of Partial Differential Equations, Harmonic Analysis and Geometric Measure Theory. Toro earned her PhD from Stanford University, and has held positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Among her honors and awards, Toro is the recipient of the Sloan Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Simons Foundation Fellowship, and she is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales.

Toro has served on the boards of the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), and she currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS). In 2022, she was elected to the role of Vice President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) for 2023-2026.