Anna Zdunik

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Anna Maria Zdunik is a Polish mathematician. She specializes in dynamical systems, and is a professor at the University of Warsaw. [1] [2] [3]

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Education

Zdunik earned her habilitation in 2002, on the basis of an evaluation of her achievements and her dissertation. [1]

Career

She became a professor of mathematics in 2010. [1] [4]

She was invited as a speaker for the 2015 Fields Medal Symposium. [5]

She is the Chair of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw (MIMUW). [6] The Warsaw Center of Mathematics and Computer Science (Warszawskie Centrum Nauk Matematycznych) is a project of both MIMUW and the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN); the center is run by an executive committee that includes Zdunik. [6]

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