Isabel Graciela Dotti de Miatello (born 1947) is an Argentine mathematician specializing in the connections between group theory and

differential topology In mathematics, differential topology is the field dealing with the topological properties and smooth properties of smooth manifolds. In this sense differential topology is distinct from the closely related field of differential geometry, which ...

, including the theory of complex nilmanifolds, nilpotent Lie groups,

hypercomplex manifold In differential geometry, a hypercomplex manifold is a manifold with the tangent bundle equipped with an action by the algebra of quaternions in such a way that the quaternions I, J, K define integrable almost complex structures. If the almost c ...

s, and hyperkähler manifolds. She is a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics of the

National University of Córdoba The National University of Córdoba ( es, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba,) is an institution of higher education in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Founded in 1613, the university is the oldest in Argentina, the third oldest university of t ...

Education and career

Dotti was born on 21 June 1947 in , a town in

San Justo Department, Córdoba San Justo Department is a department of Córdoba Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 190,182 inhabitants in an area of 13,677 km², and its capital city is San Francisco, which is located around 67 ...

. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1970 at the National University of Córdoba, and completed a doctorate at Rutgers University in the United States in 1976. Her dissertation, ''Extension of Actions on Stiefel Manifolds'', was supervised by

Glen Bredon Glen Eugene Bredon (August 24, 1932 in Fresno, California – May 8, 2000, in North Fork, California) was an American mathematician who worked in the area of topology. Education and career Bredon received a bachelor's degree from Stanford Unive ...

. After temporary positions at the

Federal University of Pernambuco Federal University of Pernambuco ( pt, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, UFPE) is a public university in Recife, Brazil, established in 1946. UFPE has 70 undergraduate courses and 175 postgraduate courses. , UFPE had 35,000 students and 2,000 ...

in Brazil, at Rutgers, and at the National University of Córdoba, she obtained a permanent faculty position at the National University of Córdoba in 1983.

Recognition

Dotti is a numbered member of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina, elected in 2007.

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