Carlo Pagano is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Concordia University whose interests focus on questions in number theory, including arithmetic statistics, arithmetic dynamics, rational points and sphere packings. He took his Ph.D. from Leiden University in 2018 and held positions at the Max Planck Institute and the University of Glasgow before joining Concordia in 2022. He has resolved some difficult long-standing conjectures including the extension to more general rings of integers of the undecidability proof for Diophantine equations, i.e., Hilbert’s 10th problem. He is the 2025 recipient of the André Aisenstadt Prize.