Helena Judith Nussenzveig Lopes

She holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley (1991). Was visiting professor at the Univ. of Kentucky (1991-92) at Indiana University (1997), at Penn State University (2002-03) and at the Univ. of California, Riverside (2011-2012). Was the Distingished Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, 2017. Was Simons Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, 2022. Faculty at Unicamp from 1992 to 2012, currently full professor in the Department of Mathematics at IM-UFRJ, since 2012. She has experience in the area of #8203;#8203;Partial Differential Equations, mainly in Fluid Dynamics area; the main topic of her #8203;#8203;research are irregular solutions of the equations for incompressible fluids dynamics, such as Euler and Navier-Stokes and derivative systems. Apart from these, she worked with variational inequalities systems of conservation laws and with applications of optimal transport theory. She was Editor-in-chief of the SBM Book Publishing business, 2008-2010, an alternate member of the CA Mathematics / Statistics CNPq, 2007-2010, and a member of the Mathematics and Statistics Area Coordination of FAPESP, 2007-2011. She is Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis and a member of the Editorial Boards of Partial Differential Equations and Applications and of the Bulletin of the Brazilian Math Society. She is Managing Editor of the journal Orbita Mathematicae, of UMALCA. She was a member of the Editorial Board of the Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences. She was the second vice president of SBMAC 2011 to 2013, as well as member of the SBMAC Council since 2014. She was the Representative of SBMAC with the ICIAM Board from 2011 to 2015. She was elected Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Analysis of PDE for 2015-2016 and Program Director for 2025-2026, and Head the Department of Mathematics of IM-UFRJ for the term 2014-2016. She was a member of the Scientific Council of the Centre International des Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées - CIMPA from 2013 to 2021 and is currently President of CIMPA for the term 2025-2029. She was awarded the National Order of Scientific Merit in 2010, was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2016 and elected for the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2018. She was elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society Class of 2020. She was awarded the TWAS Award Mathematics in 2020. She was an Invited Speaker in the Partial Differential Equations Section of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018. She was elected fellow of TWAS in 2022. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)