Information

Membership Number: FCA1322

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Mathematics and Information Sciences

Corresponding Email: ***pes@im.ufrj.br

Homepage(s): https://www.abc.org.br/membro/helena-judith-nussenzveig-lopes/

Present and Previous Positions

Professor titular in the Department of Mathematical Methods at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Visiting positions

August 1991 to May 1992 – University of Kentucky (visiting assistant professor) January to December, 1997 – Indiana University, Bloomington (visiting assistant                             professor)

August 2003 – May 2004 – Penn State University (visiting scholar) August 2011 – January 2012 – University of California Riverside (visiting scholar)

January 2017 – June 2017 – Brown University (Distinguished Visiting Professor of Mathematics)

February 2022 – June 2022 – The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Long-term program participant and Simons Fellow

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

PhD in Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley

Partial differential equations and fluid dynamics; Euler equations for incompressible flow in fluid dynamics

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Invited/plenary speaker at several conferences since 2005, including IPAMUCLA, IMA-UMN, ICMS-Edinburgh, ICERM-Brown.

Undergraduate Science Projects – Advisor; Silver Medal, 2006; Bronze Medal, 2010       

Admitted to National Order of Merit in Science and Technology, Class 

“Comendador”, Brazil, 2010

SIAM Fellow, Class of 2016

Invited Speaker, Section 10 – PDE, International Congress of Mathematicians–ICM 2018

                                     (International Mathematical Union)

Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), Class of 2019.

AMS Fellow, Class of 2020

TWAS Award in Mathematics, 2022 https://twas.org/node/15085. TWAS Fellow, Class of 2023 

She was awarded the National Order of Scientific Merit in 2010.

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OLo2Im8AAAAJ&hl=en