Ana Ros Camacho is a Spanish mathematician and mathematical physicist known for her work on connections between the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductors and conformal field theory in quantum mechanics. She works in the UK as lecturer in the School of Mathematics at Cardiff University.[1]

Ros Camacho at Oberwolfach in 2013

Education and career

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Ros Camacho earned a licenciate in physics from the University of Barcelona in 2009. She went to the University of Hamburg in Germany for continued study in mathematical physics, earning a master's degree in 2011 and completing her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 2014.[2] Her dissertation, Matrix factorizations and the Landau-Ginzburg/conformal field theory correspondence, was supervised by Ingo Runkel.[3]

After postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Germany from 2014 to 2015, and at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche from 2015 to 2016, she became a junior lecturer in the mathematics institute of Utrecht University in The Netherlands beginning in 2016. There, she was supported by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship and a Veni grant of the Dutch Research Council. In 2020, she moved to her present position as a lecturer in the School of Mathematics at Cardiff University.[2]

Recognition

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Utrecht University gave Ros Camacho their Westerdijk Award, for work "to create a more diverse organisation", including mentoring Spanish-speaking students and encouraging work by women in mathematics and mathematical physics, in 2019.[4] In 2022, she was recognized by Cardiff University by their award for Champion for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.[5]

The London Mathematical Society awarded Ros Camacho their 2024 Anne Bennett Prize, "for her ground-breaking work on categorical proofs of the Landau–Ginzburg/Conformal Field Theory correspondence and her tireless dedication to the advancement of women in mathematical physics".[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Dr Ana Ros Camacho", Staff, Cardiff University, retrieved 2024-06-28
  2. ^ a b "Ana Ros Camacho", ORCiD, retrieved 2024-06-28
  3. ^ Ana Ros Camacho at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Ana Ros Camacho wins Westerdijk Award 2019, Utrecht University, 2 September 2019, retrieved 2024-06-28
  5. ^ Dr Ana Ros Camacho wins Champion for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the Enriching Student Life Awards, Cardiff University, 23 May 2022, retrieved 2024-06-28
  6. ^ 2024 LMS Prize Winners, London Mathematical Society, 2024, retrieved 2024-06-28
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