Verónica Martínez de la Vega

Verónica Martínez de la Vega y Mansilla is a Mexican mathematician whose research involves topology and hypertopology. She is a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Martínez de la Vega and the second or maternal family name is Mansilla.

Education and career

Martínez de la Vega was born in Mexico City, on January 5, 1971. Her family worked as lawyers, and discouraged her from going into science, but nevertheless she ended up studying mathematics at UNAM, and wrote an undergraduate thesis in topology that she published as a journal paper in Topology and its Applications.[2] Continuing to graduate study in topology at UNAM, she completed her PhD in 2002 with the dissertation Estudio sobre dendroides y compactaciones supervised by Polish topologist Janusz J. Charatonik, becoming his only female doctoral student.[2][3]

After postgraduate research at UAM Iztapalapa and California State University, Sacramento, she joined the Institute of Mathematics as a researcher in 2005.[4]

Recognition

Martínez de la Vega is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[5] In 2017 UNAM gave her their "Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" award.[2]

References
  1. "Dra. Verónica Martínez de la Vega y Mansilla", Directory, UNAM Faculty of Sciences, retrieved 2022-11-26
  2. "Verónica Martínez de la Vega y Mansilla recibe el "Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"", Noticias del IM, UNAM Institute of Mathematics, retrieved 2022-11-26
  3. Verónica Martínez de la Vega at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Verónica Martínez de la Vega (Investigadora), UNAM Institute of Mathematics, retrieved 2022-11-26
  5. Mathematics section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2021, retrieved 2022-11-26
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