Irene Fonseca
Irene Maria Quintanilha Coelho da Fonseca is a Portuguese-American applied mathematician, the Mellon College of Science Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she directs the Center for Nonlinear Analysis.[1]
Professional career
Fonseca was born in Portugal, and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Lisbon.[2] She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1985, under the supervision of David Kinderlehrer, who later followed his student to CMU.[3] She joined the CMU faculty after postdoctoral studies in Paris, France.[2]
In 2011, Fonseca was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[2]
Books
Fonseca is the co-author of:
- Degree Theory in Analysis and Applications (with Wilfrid Gangbo, Oxford University Press, 1995)
- Modern Methods in the Calculus of Variations: LP Spaces (with Giovanni Leoni, Springer Verlag, 2007)
Awards and honors
Fonseca is a knight of the Order of Saint James of the Sword.[2] In 2009, Fonseca was elected as a fellow of SIAM "for contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations and the calculus of variations".[4] In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
Personal
Fonseca is married to stem cell researcher Gerald Schatten.[6]
References
- ↑ Faculty profile, CMU Department of Mathematical Sciences, retrieved 2013-01-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Wereschagin, Mike (December 1, 2011), "Newsmaker: Irene Fonseca", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Irene Maria Quintanilha Coelho da Fonseca at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ SIAM Fellows list, retrieved 2013-01-21.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-21.
- ↑ Gerald Schatten genealogy on Geni, retrieved 2013-01-21.
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