Elvira Mayordomo Cámara is a Spanish

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specialising in the theory of computation. She is

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at the University of Zaragoza and currently the President of the Association Computability in Europe.

Career

Mayordomo studied

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and

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at the University of Zaragoza, graduating in 1990. She obtained a doctorate at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya under the supervision of José Balcazar in 1994. After her Ph.D., she returned to the University of Zaragoza, first as instructor (1994–1996), then as ''Profesora Titular'' (1996–2007), and finally, from 2007, as ''Catedrática''. Since 2004, she is also

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Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the n ...

. Mayordomo is an editor of the journals ''ACM Transactions on Computation Theory'', ''Computability'', and

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. She is also one of the editors of the book series ''Theory and Applications of Computability''. She has been on the Board (later Council) of the Association Computability in Europe since its foundation. She served as the chair of the CiE Publications Committee and became the fourth President of the Association in 2020. Mayordomo has also been on the Steering Committee of the conference series ''Computability, Complexity, and Randomness'' (CCR) since 2009 and on the Council of the

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since 2011.

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