Biography:Irene Sciriha
Professor Irene Sciriha Aquilina | |
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| Alma mater | Royal University of Malta (BSc) University of Reading (PhD) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Malta |
| Thesis | On some aspects of graph spectra (1998) |
| Doctoral advisors | Anthony Hilton Stanley Fiorini |
Irene Sciriha Aquilina is a Maltese mathematician specializing in spectral graph theory and chemical graph theory.[1] A particular topic of her research has been the singular graphs, graphs whose adjacency matrix is a singular matrix, and the nut graphs, singular graphs all of whose nontrivial induced subgraphs are non-singular.[2] She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Malta.[3]
Education and career
Sciriha studied mathematics at the University of Malta, earning bachelor's and master's degrees[3] as the only woman studying mathematics or physics there at that time.[2] She completed a PhD in 1998 at the University of Reading in England. Her dissertation, On some aspects of graph spectra, was jointly supervised by Anthony Hilton and Stanley Fiorini.[4]
She began teaching at the University of Malta in 1971.[3] She was convenor of European Women in Mathematics from 2000 to 2001.[1]
Recognition
Sciriha is a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.[3] One of her students, chemist Martha Borg, won the Turner Prize at the University of Sheffield for a doctoral dissertation co-advised by Sciriha and Patrick W. Fowler.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Irene Sciriha, European Women in Mathematics, https://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/irene-sciriha/, retrieved 2021-05-27; History, European Women in Mathematics, https://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/about-us/history/, retrieved 2021-05-27
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Woman Scientist of the Month: Irene Sciriha Aquilina", European Platform of Women Scientists, 3 February 2020, https://epws.org/woman-scientist-irene-sciriha-aquilina/, retrieved 2021-05-27
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Prof. Irene Sciriha Aquilina", Staff profiles (University of Malta), https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/irenescirihaaquilina, retrieved 2021-05-27
- ↑ Irene Sciriha at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Dr Martha Borg awarded the UK Turner Prize for an outstanding thesis", Newspoint (University of Malta), https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/news/2020/08/martha-borg, retrieved 2021-05-27; Jones, Becky Catrin (2021), "A promising early career researcher", Think Magazine (University of Malta) 34: 60–63, https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/72197
External links
- Irene Sciriha publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Home page
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