María Luisa (Marisa) Fernández Rodríguez (born 11 June 1953) is a Spanish mathematician specializing in

differential geometry Differential geometry is a Mathematics, mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of Calculus, single variable calculus, vector calculus, lin ...

symplectic geometry Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form. Symplectic geometry has its origins in the ...

, and -structures. She is the professor of geometry and topology in the department of mathematics 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 ...

Education and career

Fernández is originally from

Ourense Ourense (; ) is a city and the capital of the province of province of Ourense, Ourense, located in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, northwestern Spain. It is on the Camino Sanabrés path o ...

. She was a mathematics student at the

University of Santiago de Compostela The University of Santiago de Compostela - USC (, ) is a public university located in the city of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. A second campus is located in Lugo, Galicia. It is one of the world's oldest universities in continuous o ...

, earning a licentiate there in 1974 and completing her doctorate in 1976. Her dissertation, ''Estructura y propiedades de las variedades G1'', was supervised by . After postdoctoral research with Alfred Gray at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD i ...

, she joined the faculty of science at the University of the Basque Country in 1986, becoming the first female professor in the faculty.

Recognition

In 1988, the government of the

Province of Pontevedra Pontevedra is a province of Spain, located in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, and Ourense, the country of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. There is a public insti ...

gave Fernández the Antonio Odriozola Prize for basic research. She was a 2019 winner of the medal of the

Royal Spanish Mathematical Society The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society ( Spanish: ''Real Sociedad Matemática Española'', RSME) is the main professional society of Spanish mathematicians and represents Spanish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and th ...

References

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