Salomé Martínez
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Salomé Minerva Angélica Martínez Salazar is a Chilean mathematician and a full professor in the Department of Mathematical Engineering at the University of Chile, where she directs the Mathematics Education Laboratory in the Center for Mathematical Modeling.[1][2] Her doctoral research was in mathematical biology; more recently she has focused on mathematics education.[3]
Martínez is the daughter of Chilean mathematician Servet Martínez.[3] She earned a degree in mathematical engineering from the University of Chile in 1995, and completed her Ph.D. in the United States at the University of Minnesota in 2000.[1][2] Her doctoral dissertation, The Effects of Diffusion and Cross-Diffusion for the 3 × 3 Lotka-Volterra Competition System, was supervised by Wei-Ming Ni.[4]
After postdoctoral research at Georgia Tech from 2000 to 2002, she returned to the University of Chile as an associate professor in 2002. She has been a full professor there since 2017,[1] becoming the first female professor in the Department of Mathematical Engineering.[3] She was the university's Director of Gender and Diversity from 2018 to 2019.[1]
