Irene Fonseca
Mellon College of Science University Professor of Mathematics, Director of Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Carnegie Mellon University
Irene Fonseca is an applied mathematician who is on committees and boards of several major international universities and research centers.
In 1997, she was bestowed knighthood in the Military Order of St. James (Grande Oficial da Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada) by the president of Portugal. In 2004, she received a Women of Distinction Award in Math and Technology from the Western Pennsylvania Girl Scouts Trillium Council, and she was chosen to deliver the prestigious Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at SIAM's Annual Meeting in 2006. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) in 2012. She has written over 100 papers. Degree Theory in Analysis and Applications, a book co-authored with Wilfrid Gangbo, was published by Oxford University Press in 1995, and Modern Methods in the Calculus of Variations: L^p Spaces, is a book co-authored with Giovanni Leoni and published by Springer-Verlag in 2007. In 2012, she began a term as president-elect of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, an international professional society for applied mathematicians, with a two-year term as president starting in 2013.