Mariya Vladimirovna Shcherbina (, born December 11, 1958) is a Ukrainian mathematician and mathematical physicist who studies the theory of random matrices. She is a corresponding member of the

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; , ; ''NAN Ukrainy'') is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine that is the main center of development of Science and technology in Ukraine, science and technology by coordinatin ...

, and the 2009 winner of the Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky Prize. Shcherbina earned a diploma from the

National University of Kharkiv The V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (), also known as Kharkiv National University or Karazin University, is a public university in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasily Karazin, becoming the second old ...

in 1981, and then did graduate studies at the

Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering The B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine () is a research institute that conducts basic research in experimental and theoretical physics, mathematics, as well as in the fi ...

, earning a

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in 1986. She completed her

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at the institute in 1997. She has been employed as a researcher at the Verkin Institute since 1983, and is a division head there. With Leonid Pastur, Shcherbina is the author of ''Eigenvalue Distribution of Large Random Matrices'' (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, American Mathematical Society, 2011). She was an invited speaker on mathematical physics at the 2018

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shcherbina, Mariya 1958 births Living people National University of Kharkiv alumni 20th-century Ukrainian mathematicians 20th-century Ukrainian physicists Ukrainian women mathematicians Ukrainian women physicists 21st-century Ukrainian women scientists Corresponding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 21st-century Ukrainian physicists 21st-century Ukrainian mathematicians Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology