A Mathematical Polyglot

Abstract

Elisabetta STRICKLAND is a full professor of algebra at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". She was Deputy President of the National Institute of Advanced Mathematics (INdAM) from 2007 to 2015. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Women in Mathematics Committee (WIM) of the European Mathematical Society. She is also a co-founder of the Gender Interuniversity Observatory GIO over the state universities in Rome. Since 2016, she has been an Ambassador of Italy on the Committee of Women in Mathematics (CWM) of the International Mathematical Union. In 2013, she was awarded the ”Excellent Women in Rome” Prize from the Capitoline Administration.