Erika Camacho

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Erika Camacho
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Born
Erika Tatiana Camacho

(1974-09-03)September 3, 1974
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Nationality American
Alma mater Cornell University
Wellesley College
Scientific career
Fields Mathematical Biology
Applied mathematics
Institutions University of Texas at San Antonio
Arizona State University
Loyola Marymount University
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Cal Poly Pomona
Cornell University
Thesis Mathematical Models of Retinal Dynamics
Doctoral advisor Richard H. Rand
Website www.public.asu.edu/~etcamach/

Erika Tatiana Camacho is a Mexican and American mathematical biologist and professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. [1] She is a 2014 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) awardee. [2] She was taught and mentored in high school by Jaime Escalante, who was the subject of the movie Stand and Deliver . [3]

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Education

Camacho was born 3 September 1974, in Guadalajara, Mexico. She attended high school at Garfield High School from 1990 to 1993 where she was taught by Jaime Escalante. [4] [5] After graduating from Wellesley College, cum laude, with Bachelor of Arts degrees in mathematics and economics in 1997, she went to earn a PhD in applied mathematics [6] from Cornell University in 2003 for her research on mathematical models of retinal dynamics.

Career

After spending a year as a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Camacho joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University in 2004. She co-founded and co-directed the summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates, the Applied Mathematical Sciences Summer Research Institute (AMSSI), that ran from 2005 to 2007 with support from the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency. Her research focuses on mathematical models of photoreceptors in the retina. [4] In 2007, she moved to Arizona State University where she worked as a professor of applied mathematics. In 2013–2014, she taught at MIT in the MLK Visiting Scholars program. [7] She has served on numerous national boards including the Council of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), [8] the Advisory Board of National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), [9] and SACNAS Board of Directors. [10] She served as an AMS Council member at large from 2018 to 2020. [11]

In September 2019 she began a 3-year rotation as a Program Director with the National Science Foundation. She was co-lead of the HSI Program and worked with the ADVANCE Program. She served as a Program Director in the Racial Equity in STEM Program Description where she and the other Program Directors were awarded a 2022 Director's Award for Superior Accomplishment: "For excellence, inclusion, collaboration, integrity, learning, transparency, and public service in creating and bringing to fruition the EHR Racial Equity in STEM Education Program Description, a timely idea whose impact may fundamentally change the scientific endeavor and NSF." [12]

In January 2023, she began a Fulbright Scholar Award at the Institut de la Vision in Paris (Sorbonne University), [13] [14] and in August of that year, she announced her move to the University of Texas at San Antonio. [15] She is also a staunch advocate for inclusivity in STEM. [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

Awards

Camacho is the recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2019 Mentor Award [21] and a 2014 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM), [2] awarded for her research with and mentoring of undergraduates. In 2023 she received the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award in recognition of mathematics educators who have exhibited outstanding mentorship [22] and in 2020 she received the Louise Hay Award for Mathematics Education, [23] both from the Association for Women in Mathematics.

She won the 2020 SACNAS Presidential Service Award, [24] the 2018 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education Research/Teaching (Research Institutions) Award (now the AAHHE Sylvia Hurtado University Faculty Award), [25] the 2017 HENAAC Education Award, [26] the 2012 SACNAS Distinguished Undergraduate Institution Mentor Award, [24] and the 2011 Hispanic Women's Corporation National Latina Leadership Award. [27]

Camacho was selected a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the class of 2024 "for her leadership in the advancement, mentoring, and support of women and underrepresented groups at all levels through the creation of opportunities, collaborative research, and impactful service. Her work brings sustained systemic change, diversity, equity, and inclusion in mathematics, and more broadly in STEM." [28] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2024 class of fellows. [29]

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