Sara Negri

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Sara Negri (born January 21, 1967) [1] is a mathematical logician who studies proof theory. She is Italian, worked in Finland for several years, where she was a professor of theoretical philosophy in the University of Helsinki, and currently holds a position as professor of mathematical logic at the University of Genoa. [2]

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Education and career

Negri was born in Padua, [1] and studied at the University of Padua. She earned a master's degree there in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1996, both in mathematics. [3] Her dissertation, Dalla Topologia Formale all'Analisi, was supervised by Giovanni Sambin. [4]

She went to Helsinki as a docent in 1998, and became a full professor there in 2015. She has also taken several visiting positions, [3] including a Humboldt Fellowship in 2004–2005 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. [3] [5] She became full professor of mathematical logic at the University of Genoa, in Italy, in 2019.

Recognition

Negri was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2018. [6]

Books

Negri is the co-author, with Jan von Plato, of two books:

References

  1. 1 2 "Sara Negri", 375 Humanists, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, 6 September 2015, retrieved 2018-02-28
  2. University Personnel list, May 2020, retrieved 2020-05-16
  3. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae (PDF), September 2017, retrieved 2018-02-28
  4. Sara Negri at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Negri, Sara (2009), "Alone Amongst Men", Humboldt Kosmos, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, retrieved 2018-02-28
  6. "Sara Negri", Member profiles, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2020-10-08
  7. Reviews of Structural Proof Theory:
  8. Reviews of Proof Analysis: