After earning an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1992, and earning a master's degree in 1994 under the mentorship of Mónica Clapp,[2] Oliveros continued at UNAM for graduate study in mathematics, with doctoral research on an unsolved question of Stanislaw Ulam concerning the buoyancy of floating convex bodies.[1] Her 1997 dissertation on the topic, Los volantines : sistemas dinamicos asociados al problema de la flotacion de los cuerpos, was jointly supervised by Luis Montejano and Javier Bracho.[3]
She became a professor at UNAM in 1996, but left in 1999 for postdoctoral research at the University of Calgary in Canada. She became a professor there from 2001 to 2005, when she returned to a professorship at UNAM.[2] She became one of the founders of the branch of the UNAM Institute of Mathematics at the UNAM Juriquilla campus, and directed the institute for 2015–2016.[1] She also holds an affiliation with the Faculty of Engineering of the Autonomous University of Queretaro.[4]
Book
Oliveros is a coauthor with Horst Martini and Luis Montejano of the book Bodies of Constant Width: An Introduction to Convex Geometry with Applications (Birkhäuser, 2019).[5]
Recognition
UNAM gave Oliveros the "Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" award in 2014.[6] She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[7]
