María de la Luz (Lucero) Jimena de Teresa de Oteyza (born 1965) is a Mexican and Spanish mathematician specializing in the control theory of parabolic partial differential equations. She is a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),[1] and a former president of the Mexican Mathematical Society.

Education and career

De Teresa was born in Mexico City on 14 June 1965; and is a citizen of both Mexico and Spain.[2] Her father was a physicist who encouraged her to do what made her happiest; she decided that not having integrals in her life would be a horrible absence.[3][4]

She became an undergraduate at UNAM, graduating in 1990. Next, she studied applied mathematics at the Complutense University of Madrid, completing her PhD in 1995.[2] Her dissertation, Control de algunas ecuaciones de la Física-Matemática: Ecuación de ondas, del calor y sistema de la termoelasticidad, was supervised by Enrique Zuazua.[5]

She has been a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics at UNAM since 1995, and was president of the Mexican Mathematical Society for the 2018–2020 term.[3][4] In 2020 she was named to the governing board of UNAM's university council.[6]

Recognition

De Teresa was elected to the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2011.[2][3][7] She was named an honorary member of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society in 2018.[6]

UNAM gave her their Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz award in 2009.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "María de la Luz Jimena de Teresa (Investigadora)", Institute of Mathematics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, retrieved 2022-11-20
  2. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae (PDF), National Autonomous University of Mexico, February 2020, retrieved 2022-11-20
  3. 1 2 3 San Martín, Javier; Lekuona, Izaskun (2 May 2018), "No tener integrales en mi vida sería una ausencia horrible", Mujeres con ciencia, retrieved 2022-11-20
  4. 1 2 González, Aketzalli, La mujer que sueña con ecuaciones, CONACYT, archived from the original on 2018-04-07
  5. ↑ Luz de Teresa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. 1 2 "Integra UNAM a la doctora María de la Luz Jimena a su Consejo Universitario", López-Dóriga, 7 August 2020, retrieved 2022-11-20
  7. ↑ Mathematics section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2021, retrieved 2022-11-20
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