Irene Sciriha

Professor
Irene Sciriha Aquilina
Born
Valletta, Malta
Alma materRoyal University of Malta (BSc)
University of Reading (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Malta
Thesis On some aspects of graph spectra  (1998)
Doctoral advisorsAnthony 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. ^ a b Irene Sciriha, European Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2021-05-27; History, European Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2021-05-27
  2. ^ a b "Woman Scientist of the Month: Irene Sciriha Aquilina", European Platform of Women Scientists, 3 February 2020, retrieved 2021-05-27
  3. ^ a b c d "Prof. Irene Sciriha Aquilina", Staff profiles, University of Malta, retrieved 2021-05-27
  4. ^ Irene Sciriha at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "Dr Martha Borg awarded the UK Turner Prize for an outstanding thesis", Newspoint, University of Malta, retrieved 2021-05-27; Jones, Becky Catrin (2021), "A promising early career researcher", Think Magazine, vol. 34, University of Malta, pp. 60–63