Consuelo Martínez López (born 1955) is a Spanish mathematician, and a frequent collaborator of

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ist Efim Zelmanov. Her research topics include

abstract algebra In mathematics, more specifically algebra, abstract algebra or modern algebra is the study of algebraic structures. Algebraic structures include groups, rings, fields, modules, vector spaces, lattices, and algebras over a field. The term ''a ...

including

group theory In abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as group (mathematics), groups. The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra: other well-known algebraic structures, such as ring (mathematics), rings, field ...

and superalgebras,

algebraic coding theory Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and data storage. Codes are studied ...

, and

cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...

. She is the professor of algebra at the

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Education and career

Martínez was born in 1955 in

Ferrol, Spain Ferrol () is a city in the Province of A Coruña in Galicia, on the Atlantic coast in north-western Spain, in the vicinity of Strabo's Cape Nerium (modern day Cape Prior). According to the 2021 census, the city has a population of 64,785, maki ...

, the daughter of a teacher. She earned a

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in mathematics in 1977 from the University of Zaragoza, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Zaragoza in 1980. Her dissertation, ''Formaciones saturadas en una clase de grupos localmente finitos PI-resolubles'', concerned

, and was supervised by Javier Otal. She became professor of algebra at the University of Oviedo in 2005. As well as her research and teaching in mathematics, Martínez has participated in joint work of the

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and

Royal Spanish Mathematical Society The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society (Spanish: ''Real Sociedad Matemática Española'', RSME) is the main professional society of Spanish mathematicians and represents Spanish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the In ...

to include mathematical terminology in the '' Diccionario de la lengua española''.

Recognition

In 2018, Martínez won both the medal of the

, and the Julio Peláez Prize for women in the sciences, given by the Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno Foundation. She was elected as a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences in 2021.

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