Mihaela Ifrim
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Mihaela Ifrim is a Romanian and American mathematician specializing in the mathematical analysis of partial differential equations, including nonlinear dispersive equations and the equations used to model fluid dynamics and water waves. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1]
Ifrim received a bachelor's degree in 2006, through the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bucharest. After a 2007 master's degree in the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. she continued her studies at the University of California, Davis, completing her Ph.D. in 2012.[2] Her dissertation, Normal Form Transformations for Quasilinear Wave Equations, was supervised by John Kelso Hunter.[3]
She held a Canada Research Chair Postdoctoral Fellowship at McMaster University from 2012 to 2013, and was a Simons Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley from 2014 to 2017. In 2017, she took an assistant professorship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was promoted to associate professor in 2020 and to full professor in 2024.[2]