Mariya Vladimirovna Shcherbina (Ukrainian : Марія Володимирівна Щербина, born December 11, 1958) is a Ukrainian mathematician and mathematical physicist who studies the theory of random matrices. [1] She is a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the 2009 winner of the Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky Prize. [2]
Shcherbina earned a diploma from the National University of Kharkiv in 1981, and then did graduate studies at the Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, earning a candidacy in 1986. She completed her habilitation at the institute in 1997. She has been employed as a researcher at the Verkin Institute since 1983, and is a division head there. [1]
With Leonid Pastur, Shcherbina is the author of Eigenvalue Distribution of Large Random Matrices (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, American Mathematical Society, 2011). [3] She was an invited speaker on mathematical physics at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. [4]