Malena Inés Español is an Argentine-American applied mathematician. Her research involves computational methods such as

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, especially as applied to

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and

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. She is an associate professor in the

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School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences.

Education and career

Español attended the

Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (''National School of Buenos Aires'') is a public high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, affiliated to the University of Buenos Aires. In the tradition of the European ''gymnasium'' it provides a free educatio ...

(''National School of Buenos Aires''), a public

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, Argentina, affiliated with the

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. She was an undergraduate at the

, where she earned a

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in applied mathematics in 2003. She moved to

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in the US for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in 2005 and completing her Ph.D. in 2009. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Multilevel Methods for Discrete Ill-Posed Problems: Application to Deblurring'', was supervised by

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. After postdoctoral research with Michael Ortiz at the

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, Español took an assistant professorship at the

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in 2012, and was tenured as an associate professor there in 2018. She moved to Arizona State University in 2019, returning to the assistant professor rank, and was again promoted to associate professor in 2024.

Recognition

The

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named Español as the 2022 Karen EDGE Fellow. She is a 2024 recipient of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.

References

External links

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Women Do Math,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Espanol, Malena Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Argentine mathematicians Argentine women mathematicians American materials scientists American applied mathematicians American women mathematicians University of Buenos Aires alumni Tufts University alumni University of Akron faculty Arizona State University faculty