Carolina Araujo (mathematician)

Carolina Bhering de Araujo is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry, including birational geometry, Fano varieties, and foliations. She is a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Brazil (IMPA), and the only woman on the permanent research staff at IMPA.[1]

Araujo did her undergraduate studies in Brazil, completing a degree in mathematics in 1998 from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.[2] She earned her PhD in 2004 at Princeton University; her dissertation, supervised by János Kollár, was The Variety of Tangents to Rational Curves.[1][3]

Araujo won L'Oreal Award for Women in Science in Brazil in 2008.[4][5] She is an organizer and invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Carolina Araujo, European Women in Maths, retrieved 2018-07-15
  2. ↑ "Carolina Bhering de Araujo", Escavador (in Portuguese)
  3. ↑ Carolina Araujo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "Mulheres protagonizam atividade do 'Matemática na Urca'", Comunicacao UNIRIO (in Portuguese), October 20, 2016
  5. ↑ Prêmio Para Mulheres na Ciência L’Oréal-UNESCO-ABC abre inscrições (in Portuguese), Brazilian Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-07-15
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