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Rosa Donat

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Rosa María Donat Beneito (born 1960) is a Spanish applied mathematician whose research involves numerical methods for partial differential equations, particularly multiresolution methods for problems modeling fluid dynamics with shock waves or with high Mach number. She is a professor of applied mathematics and vice rector for innovation and transfer at the University of Valencia,[1] and former president of the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics.[2]

Education and career

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Donat was born in 1960 in La Font de la Figuera.[1] After earning a degree in mathematal sciences from the University of Valencia in 1984, she traveled to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1985 as a Fulbright Scholar, earning a master's degree there in 1987 and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1990.[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Studies on Error Propagation Into Regions of Smoothness for Certain Nonlinear Approximations to Hyperbolic Equations, was supervised by Stanley Osher.[3]

She has held a tenured position at the University of Valencia since 1993, and was given a professorial chair there in 2008.[4]

She was elected as president of the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics in 2016,[4] becoming the society's first woman president[5] and holding office from 2016 to 2020.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Vice-Principal for Innovation and Transfer", Office of the Principal, University of Valencia, retrieved 2023-04-10
  2. ^ a b c Donat Beneito, Rosa Maria (in Spanish), Fundación Gadea Ciencia, retrieved 2023-04-10
  3. ^ Rosa Donat at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ a b "La investigadora Rosa Donat, nueva presidenta de la Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada (SEMA)", Red de Universidades Valencianas para el fomento de la Investigación, el Desarrollo y la Innovación (in Spanish), 20 June 2016, retrieved 2023-04-10
  5. ^ "The Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, February 2018, retrieved 2023-04-10