Beatrice Pelloni facts for kids

Beatrice Pelloni is an Italian mathematician. She studies advanced math to solve real-world problems. She is a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Professor Pelloni also leads a math journal and a group that studies waves and patterns in math.

Her Journey in Math

Beatrice Pelloni was born in Rome, Italy, on June 28, 1962. She earned her first university degree from Sapienza University of Rome in 1985. Later, she went to Yale University in the United States for her advanced studies. While working on her Ph.D., she also raised three children. This shows her amazing dedication!

She finished her Ph.D. at Yale in 1996. Her main research project was about using special math methods to understand waves. Her professor, Peter Jones, guided her work.

Before finishing her Ph.D., Beatrice Pelloni also worked as a researcher. She was at a math institute in Greece called IACM-FORTH. After getting her doctorate, she worked at Imperial College London. Then, in 2001, she joined the University of Reading as a lecturer. She became a full professor there in 2012. In 2016, she moved to Heriot-Watt University, where she teaches today.

Awards and Honors

Beatrice Pelloni has received many special honors for her work in mathematics.

In 2011, she was chosen as the Olga Taussky-Todd Prize Lecturer. This meant she gave an important talk at a big international math conference. Her talk was about "Boundary value problems and integrability," which is a complex area of math.

In 2019, she gave the Mary Cartwright Lecture for the London Mathematical Society. She spoke about how math helps us understand how fluids move.

She was also made a Fellow of the IMA in 2012. This is a special honor given to top mathematicians. In 2020, she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This means she is recognized as one of the leading thinkers in Scotland.