Hortensia Galeana Sánchez

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Galeana and the second or maternal family name is Sánchez.

Hortensia Galeana Sánchez (born 6 November 1955)[1] is a Mexican mathematician specializing in graph theory, including graph coloring and the independent dominating sets ("kernels") of directed graphs. She is director of the Institute of Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[2]

Education and career

Galeana is originally from Mexico City. She was educated at UNAM, earning bachelor's master's, and doctoral degrees there,[3] in 1978, 1981, and 1985 respectively.[2] Her 1985 doctoral dissertation, Algunos resultados en la teoría de núcleos en digráficas, was supervised by Víctor Neumann-Lara.[4]

She has taught at UNAM since 1977, and was named director of the UNAM Institute of Mathematics in 2022.[2]

Recognition

Galeana is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[5] In 1995 and again in 2015 UNAM gave her their National University Prize.[6][3]

References

  1. ^ "Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM".
  2. ^ a b c Romero Mireles, Laura Lucía (25 April 2022), "Hortensia Galeana Sánchez, directora del Instituto de Matemáticas", Gaceta UNAM, retrieved 2022-11-23
  3. ^ a b "Hortensia Galeana", Gaceta UNAM, UNAM, November 2015, retrieved 2022-11-23 – via Matemáticos en Mexico
  4. ^ Hortensia Galeana Sánchez at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Mathematics section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2021, retrieved 2022-11-23
  6. ^ "Premio Universidad Nacional (1995). Hortensia Galeana", Matemáticos en Mexico, UNAM, retrieved 2022-11-23