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Irene Gamba is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin, holding the W.A. 'Tex' Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering Sciences III. She is a core faculty member of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences, leading the Applied Mathematics Group. Gamba obtained her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1989 and has held several prestigious positions, including at Columbia University, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, and Kyoto University. Her research interests encompass applied computational analysis, mathematical statistical physics, and nonlinear kinetic partial differential equations, with over a hundred published research articles. Gamba's work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. She has served on multiple scientific advisory boards, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and IPAM at UCLA. Notably, she was named a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2012 and received the inaugural Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2014.
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