Susanna Terracini (born April 29, 1963) is an Italian mathematician known for her research on

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in Hamiltonian dynamical systems, including the ''n''-body problem,

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s, and the

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. Terracini was born in

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. She earned a

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in 1986 in mathematics at the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

, supervised by Fulvia Skof. She completed her Ph.D. at the

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in 1990. Her dissertation, ''Periodic Solutions to Singular Newtonian Systems'', was supervised by

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and Sergio Solimini. She was a researcher at

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from 1988 to 1989, and became a faculty member at the

Polytechnic University of Milan The Polytechnic University of Milan (, abbreviated as PoliMi) is a university in Milan, Italy. It is the largest technical university in the country, with about 40,000 enrolled students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and higher ...

in 1990. In 2001 she became a full professor at the

University of Milano-Bicocca The University of Milano-Bicocca (, UNIMIB) is a public university located in Milan, Italy, providing undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education. Established in 1998, it was ranked by the ''Times Higher Education'' 2014 ranking of the ...

, and in 2012 she returned to Turin as a professor. One of Terracini's papers on the ''n''-body problem was selected for a featured review in ''

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''. She was the winner of the 2002 Vinti Prize, a prize of the

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for young researchers in

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. In 2007 she won the Bruno Finzi Prize of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. In 2020 she was awarded the Schauder Medal from the Juliusz P. Schauder Center for Nonlinear Studies at the

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, Poland.

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