Vladimir Maz'ya is Professor Emeritus at Linköping University, Professor of the Ohio State University and Liverpool University, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Maz'ya is widely regarded as a truly outstanding mathematician, whose illustrious work spans for 50 years and covers many areas of mathematics. He has authored and coauthored more than 400 papers and 20 books containing fundamental results and powerful novel techniques.

Besides being remarkably deep and innovative, his work is also incredibly diverse. This is amply illustrated by a mere enumeration of the ares in which he has produced significant results: equivalence of isoperimetric and integral inequalities, counterexamples related to the 19th and 20th Hilbert problems, theory of capacities and nonlinear potentials, boundary behavior of solutions to elliptic equations, non-elliptic singular integral and pseudodifferential operators, degenerating oblique derivative problem, estimates for general differential operators, the method of boundary integral equations, linear theory of surface waves, the Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation, theory of multipliers in spaces of differentiable functions, characteristic Cauchy problem for hyperbolic equations, boundary value problems in domains with piecewise smooth boundaries, asymptotic theory of differential and difference equations with operator coefficients, maximum modulus principle for elliptic and parabolic systems, iterative procedures for solving ill-posed boundary value problems, asymptotic theory of singularly perturbed boundary value problems, numerical analysis and approximation theory...