Aline Bonami receives the Bergman Prize for her highly influential contributions to several complex variables and analytic spaces. She is being especially recognized for her fundamental work on the Bergman and Szegö projections and their corresponding spaces of holomorphic functions. Bonami’s work has had long-lasting impact on the theory of several complex variables, operator theory, and harmonic analysis, and it continues to be a strong influence on present-day research in all these fields.

Bonami is an emeritus professor at Université d’Orléans in France, where she has been a professor since 1973. Originally specializing in harmonic analysis, she received her PhD in 1970 at Université Paris-Sud in Orsay under the direction of Yves Meyer. During the first years of her career, she was a full-time researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Orsay.

Bonami has received the Prix Petit d’Ormoy, Carrière, Thébault from the French Academy of Sciences (2001), the Prize of the Polish Ministry of National Education for Research in Collaboration (2005), the Commandeur des Palmes Académiques (2005), and the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2010). She has served as coordinator of the IHP network of the European Commission on Harmonic Analysis and Related Problems (2002–2006), scientific director for mathematics in charge of evaluation in the French Ministry of Research (2003–2006), and president of the French Mathematical Society (2012–2013). She was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Simons Foundation for its African program (2012) and of the Scientific Committee for European Prizes for Young Researchers (2016), and she co-organized CIMPA schools in Argentina (2008) and Cameroon (2011). She has served in editorial positions of several mathematics journals.

The other recipient is Peter Ebenfelt from the University of California, San Diego.