Ana María Carpio Rodríguez is a Spanish

applied mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History One ...

whose research has included

inverse problem An inverse problem in science is the process of calculating from a set of observations the causal factors that produced them: for example, calculating an image in X-ray computed tomography, sound source reconstruction, source reconstruction in ac ...

s, the propagation of

dislocation In materials science, a dislocation or Taylor's dislocation is a linear crystallographic defect or irregularity within a crystal structure that contains an abrupt change in the arrangement of atoms. The movement of dislocations allow atoms to sli ...

s in crystals,

fluid dynamics In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including (the study of air and other gases in motion ...

reaction–diffusion system Reaction–diffusion systems are mathematical models that correspond to several physical phenomena. The most common is the change in space and time of the concentration of one or more chemical substances: local chemical reactions in which the su ...

s, and cancer

metastasis Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spreading from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; the term is typically used when referring to metastasis by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, ...

. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

Education and career

Carpio studied mathematics and

numerical analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation, symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of ...

at the

University of the Basque Country The University of the Basque Country (, ''EHU''; , ''UPV''; officially EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Deusto, University of Bilbao, initial ...

, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in 1988. Next, she went to

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...

in France, where she earned a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies in 1989. She continued there for a Ph.D. in 1993, directed by Alain Haraux. Her doctoral dissertation there was ''Etude de quelques problèmes d'équations aux dérivées partielles nonlinéaires'', and concerned

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to ho ...

s. In the same year, the Complutense University of Madrid recognized her with a Ph.D., for the same dissertation (in Spanish), listing Enrique Zuazua as her advisor. She completed a Spanish

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in 2004. She was appointed as an assistant professor at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1992, associate professor in 1994, and full professor in 2006. From 1996 to 1997 she traveled to the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

for postdoctoral research at the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Since 2007 she has also been affiliated with the Gregorio Millán Barbany University Institute for Modelling and Simulation in Fluodynamics, Nanoscience and Industrial Mathematics of

Charles III University of Madrid University Charles III of Madrid () (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Established in 1989, UC3M is an institution with a distinctly international profile. It offers a broad range of master's and bachelor's degree p ...

Recognition

Carpio was the inaugural winner of the SEMA Young Researcher Award of the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics, in 1998.

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