Ágnes Szendrei is a Hungarian-American mathematician whose research concerns clones, the congruence lattice problem, and other topics in

universal algebra Universal algebra (sometimes called general algebra) is the field of mathematics that studies algebraic structures in general, not specific types of algebraic structures. For instance, rather than considering groups or rings as the object of stud ...

. She is a professor of mathematics at the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University o ...

, and the author of the well-cited book ''Clones in Universal Algebra'' (1986). In May 2022, Dr. Szendrei was elected as an external member of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

; such external memberships are for Hungarian scientists who live outside of Hungary and who have made exceptional contributions to scientific research. Szendrei earned a doctorate from the

in 1982, and a

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in 1993. Her 1982 dissertation was ''Clones of Linear Operations and Semi-Affine Algebras'', supervised by . She was on the faculty of the

University of Szeged The University of Szeged () is a Public university, public research university in Szeged, Hungary. Established as the Jesuit Academy of Kolozsvár in present-day Cluj-Napoca in 1581, the institution was re-established as a university in 1872 by ...

from 1982 until 2003, when she moved to the University of Colorado. Szendrei is a

Humboldt Fellow The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation () is a foundation that promotes international academic cooperation between scientists and scholars from Germany and abroad. Established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, it is funded by th ...

. She won the Kató Rényi Award for undergraduate research in 1975, the Géza Grünwald Commemorative Prize for young researchers of the

János Bolyai Mathematical Society The János Bolyai Mathematical Society (Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat, BJMT) is the Hungarian mathematical society, named after János Bolyai, a 19th-century Hungarian mathematician, a co-discoverer of non-Euclidean geometry. It is the profe ...

in 1978, and the Golden Ring of the Republic in 1979. She was the 1992 winner of the

Paul Erdős Prize The Paul Erdős Prize (formerly Mathematical Prize) is given to Hungarian mathematicians not older than 40 by the Mathematics Department of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It was established and originally funded by Paul Erdős. Awardees See ...

of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the 2000 winner of the Academy's Farkas Bolyai Award.

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