Irene Martínez Gamba (born 1957) is an Argentine–American mathematician. She works as a professor of mathematics at the

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, where she holds the W.A. Tex Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences and is head of the Applied Mathematics Group in the

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.Curriculum vitae
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Education and career

Gamba graduated from the

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in 1981. She went to the

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for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1989, under the supervision of Jim Douglas, Jr. After postdoctoral studies at

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and the

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, she became an Assistant Professor at NYU in 1994 and Associate Professor in 1996. She became a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. At the University of Texas, she was the Joe B. and Louise Cook Professor from 2007 to 2013, the John T. Stuart III Centennial Professor from 2013 to 2014, and the W.A. Tex Moncreif, Jr. Chair in Computational Sciences and Engineering III since 2014.

Recognition

In 2012, Gamba became a

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of the

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, and one of the inaugural fellows of the

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. The

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selected her as their 2014 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. She is also a former AMS Council Member at large.

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