Education

High school studies | 1973 
Lisbon, Portugal

Licenciatura in Mathematics | 1980
University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal

Master of Science | 1983
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, USA

Doctor of Philosophy | 1985
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, USA

Languages

English
French
Portuguese

Academic Positions

Teaching Assistant | 1980–1981
University of Lisbon
Teaching Assistant |  1981–1985
University of Minnesota
Assistant Professor | 1985–1986 
University of Lisbon
Assistant Professor on leave | 1986–1987
University of Lisbon
Postdoctoral fellow | 1986–1987
Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Visiting Assistant Professor | 1987–1989
Carnegie Mellon University
Assistant Professor | 1989–1992
Carnegie Mellon University
Associate Professor with Tenure | 1992–1993
Carnegie Mellon University
Professor of Mathematics | 1993–present
Carnegie Mellon University
Director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis (CNA) | 1998–present
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Mellon College of Science Professor of Mathematics (Chair) | 2003–present
Carnegie Mellon University

Honours and Awards


1981-1985 | Fullbright Fellowship
1981-1985 | Calouste Gulbenkian Fellowship 
1997 | Grande Oficial da Ordem Militar de Sant’Iago da Espada (Portuguese Decoration)
2003-2018 | Mellon College of Science Professor of Mathematics (Chair)
2004 | Women of Distinction Award in Math and Technology
2006 | AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer for 2006
SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston
2009 | Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2009 | Best Paper Award 2009
Institute of Information Theory and Automation
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic: Oscillations and Concentrations Generated By A-Free Mappings and Weak Lower
Semicontinuity of Integral Functionals ESAIM:COCV
Published online April 21, 2009
2011 | Congratulatory vote
Unanimously approved by the Portuguese Parliament in plenary session on 2012 Seeds of Science Prize, Ciência Hoje, Portugal
2012 | Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2012 | SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) 
President Elect 2012, SIAM President 2013, 2014, SIAM Past President 2015
2012 | Doutor Honoris Causa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
2014 | University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
2018-2028  | Kavčić-Moura Professorship in Mathatematics
2021 | Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences

Professional Societies

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática
Society for Natural Philosophy