Sara Lombardo

Sara Lombardo is an Italian applied mathematician whose research topics include nonlinear dynamics, rogue waves and solitons, integrable systems, and automorphic Lie algebras. She is Executive Dean of the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. Previously she was professor of mathematics at Loughborough University, and associate dean with teaching responsibilities.[1]

Lombardo in 2007

Education and career

Lombardo studied mathematical physics at Sapienza University of Rome, earning a laurea in physics in 2000.[1][2] She completed her PhD at the University of Leeds in 2004; her dissertation, Reductions of integrable equations and automorphic Lie algebras, was supervised by Alexander V. Mikhailov.[1][2][3]

After postdoctoral research positions at the University of Leeds, University of Kent, Manchester University, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,[4] she joined the academic staff at Northumbria University in 2011,[2] becoming head of mathematics there.[1] She moved to Loughborough University in 2017 [2][1] and to Heriot-Watt in 2022.

Recognition

Lombardo is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.[2] She was one of the 2020 winners of the Suffrage Science award in maths and computing.[5]

References
  1. "Professor Sara Lombardo", Mathematical Sciences Staff, Loughborough University, retrieved 2021-08-11
  2. "Sara Lombardo", ORCID, retrieved 2021-08-11
  3. Sara Lombardo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Giant waves in the ocean: From sea monsters to science", nustem, Northumbria University, retrieved 2021-08-11
  5. "Maths and Computing Awardee 2020: Professor Sara Lombardo", Suffrage Science awards, 29 July 2021, retrieved 2021-08-11
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