Alexandra Silva (born 1984) is a Portuguese

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

and Professor at

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. She was previously Professor of Algebra, Semantics, and Computation at

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Awards and honours

Silva won a

Philip Leverhulme Prize The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. The prize sche ...

in engineering in 2016. She won the Presburger Award, awarded each year to "a young scientist for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a series of published papers", in 2017, and the Roger Needham Award in 2018.

References

1984 births Living people Portuguese computer scientists Portuguese women computer scientists Women logicians University of Minho alumni Radboud University Nijmegen alumni {{Portugal-scientist-stub