Amanda Montejano Cantoral is a Mexican mathematician specializing in

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many ...

, and particularly in the application of

graph coloring In graph theory, graph coloring is a methodic assignment of labels traditionally called "colors" to elements of a Graph (discrete mathematics), graph. The assignment is subject to certain constraints, such as that no two adjacent elements have th ...

to geometric graphs. She is a professor at the Juriquilla campus of the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

, in the Multidisciplinary Unit of Teaching and Research of the Faculty of Sciences.

Education and career

Montejano graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2004, and earned a doctorate in applied mathematics at the

Polytechnic University of Catalonia The Polytechnic University of Catalonia (, , ; UPC), currently referred to as BarcelonaTech, is the largest polytechnic university in Catalonia, Spain. UPC's objectives are based on internationalization, as it is one of Europe's techni ...

in Spain in 2009. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Colored combinatorial structures: homomorphisms and counting'', was supervised by Oriol Serra Albó. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in the Center for Applied Physics and Advanced Technology, before taking her present position in the Multidisciplinary Unit of Teaching and Research.

Recognition

Montejano is a member of the

Mexican Academy of Sciences The Mexican Academy of Sciences ''(Academia Mexicana de Ciencias)'' is a non-profit organization comprising over 1800 distinguished Mexico, Mexican scientists, attached to various institutions in the country, as well as a number of eminent forei ...

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