Malena Español

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Malena I. Español
Born
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma mater Tufts University
University of Buenos Aires
Awards Haimo Award (2024)
Karen EDGE Fellow (2022)
Scientific career
Fields Applied Mathematics
Computational Mathematics
Institutions
Thesis Multilevel Methods for Discrete Ill-Posed Problems: Application to Deblurring  (2009)
Doctoral advisor Misha Kilmer


Malena Inés Español is an Argentine-American applied mathematician. Her research involves computational methods such as ridge regression in scientific computing, especially as applied to materials science and image processing. [1] She is an associate professor in the Arizona State University School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences.

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Education and career

Español attended the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (National School of Buenos Aires), a public high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires. She was an undergraduate at the University of Buenos Aires, where she earned a licenciate in applied mathematics in 2003. She moved to Tufts University in the US for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in 2005 and completing her Ph.D. in 2009. [2] Her doctoral dissertation, Multilevel Methods for Discrete Ill-Posed Problems: Application to Deblurring, was supervised by Misha Kilmer. [2] [3]

After postdoctoral research with Michael Ortiz at the California Institute of Technology, Español took an assistant professorship at the University of Akron in 2012, and was tenured as an associate professor there in 2018. She moved to Arizona State University in 2019, returning to the assistant professor rank, and was again promoted to associate professor in 2024. [2]

Recognition

The EDGE Foundation named Español as the 2022 Karen EDGE Fellow. [1]

She is a 2024 recipient of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 2022 Karen EDGE Fellow, EDGE Foundation, retrieved 2024-05-29
  2. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2024-05-29
  3. Malena Español at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. MAA Honors the Three Recipients of the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards (PDF), Mathematical Association of America, May 23, 2024, retrieved 2024-05-29