Biography:Maarit Järvenpää
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Short description: Finnish mathematician
Maarit Järvenpää is a Finnish mathematician specializing in fractal geometry, geometric measure theory, and dynamical systems.[1] She is a professor of mathematics and dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Oulu.[2]
Education and career
Järvenpää has a Ph.D. from the University of Jyväskylä, completed in 1994. Her doctoral dissertation, On the Upper Minkowski Dimension, the Packing Dimension, and Orthogonal Projections, was supervised by Pertti Mattila.[3]
At the time when she was hired as a full professor at the University of Oulu in 2009,[4] she was one of only two women mathematics professors in Finland.[1]
Recognition
Järvenpää was named to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2019.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rahko, Pekka (29 September 2009), "Mihsen mtikmaaiman valoitja" (in fi), Kaleva, https://www.kaleva.fi/miehisen-matikkamaailman-valloittaja/2395300, retrieved 2025-07-08
- ↑ (in fi) Matemaattiset tieteet, University of Oulu, https://www.oulu.fi/fi/yliopisto/tiedekunnat-ja-yksikot/luonnontieteellinen-tiedekunta/matemaattisten-tieteiden-tutkimusyksikko, retrieved 2025-07-08
- ↑ Maarit Järvenpää at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Esa, Lilja (23 April 2009), "Filosofian tohtori Maarit Järvenpää" (in fi), Helsingin Sanomat, https://www.hs.fi/ihmisia/art-2000004647681.html, retrieved 2025-07-08
- ↑ (in fi) Varsinaiset jäsenet, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2 June 2025, https://acadsci.fi/jasenet/kotimaiset-jasenet/, retrieved 2025-07-08
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