María de la Luz (Lucero) Jimena de Teresa de Oteyza (born 1965) is a Mexican and Spanish mathematician specializing in the

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s. She is a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

(UNAM), and a former president of the Mexican Mathematical Society.

Education and career

De Teresa was born in Mexico City on 14 June 1965; and is a citizen of both Mexico and Spain. Her father was a physicist who encouraged her to do what made her happiest; she decided that not having

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s in her life would be a horrible absence. She became an undergraduate at UNAM, graduating in 1990. Next, she studied applied mathematics at the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

, completing her PhD in 1995. Her dissertation, '' Control de algunas ecuaciones de la Física-Matemática: Ecuación de ondas, del calor y sistema de la termoelasticidad'', was supervised by

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. She has been a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics at UNAM since 1995, and was president of the Mexican Mathematical Society for the 2018–2020 term. In 2020 she was named to the governing board of UNAM's university council.

Recognition

De Teresa was elected to the

Mexican Academy of Sciences The Mexican Academy of Sciences ''(Academia Mexicana de Ciencias)'' is a non-profit organization comprising over 1800 distinguished Mexican scientists, attached to various institutions in the country, as well as a number of eminent foreign coll ...

in 2011. She was named an honorary member of the

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 ...

in 2018. UNAM gave her their Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz award in 2009.

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