Tatiana Toro

Tatiana Toro
Toro in 2016
Born	1964 (age 60–61) Colombia
Alma mater	National University of Colombia (BS) Stanford University (Ph.D.)
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (2015) Blackwell–Tapia prize (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Washington Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute
Thesis	Functions in W^2,2(R^2) have Lipschitz graphs (1992)
Doctoral advisor	Leon Simon

Tatiana Toro (born 1964) is a Colombian-American mathematician at the University of Washington.[1] Her research is "at the interface of geometric measure theory, harmonic analysis and partial differential equations".[2] Toro was appointed director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute for 2022–2027.[3]

Education and employment

Toro was born in 1964 in Colombia,[2][4] and attended the Lycée Français Louis Pasteur in Bogotá.[5] She competed for Colombia in the 1981 International Mathematical Olympiad,[6] and earned a bachelor's degree from the National University of Colombia.[7] In 1992, she was awarded her PhD at Stanford University, under the supervision of Leon Simon.[8] After short-term positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Chicago, she joined the University of Washington faculty in 1996.[1] Since August 2022, Toro serves as the director of Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI).[4] She will maintain her tenure at the University of Washington throughout her term.[9]

Honors and awards

Toro was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.[10] She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015.[2] She was elected as a member of the 2017 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometric measure theory, potential theory, and free boundary theory".[11] At the University of Washington, she was the Robert R. & Elaine F. Phelps Professor in Mathematics from 2012 to 2016[12] and is currently the Craig McKibben and Sarah Merner Professor. Toro was named MSRI Chancellor's Professor for 2016–17.[13] She was awarded the 2020 Blackwell-Tapia Prize.[14] She was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020.[15] Toro was awarded the ICMAM Prize 2022 of the research organization ICMAM Latin America. [16] Toro was honored as the AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer in 2023.[17]

References

1. Curriculum vitae: Tatiana Toro (PDF), retrieved 2015-10-06.
2. Guggenheim fellows: Tatiana Toro, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, retrieved 2015-10-06.
3. MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
4. "Tatiana Toro, the Colombian appointed director of the US Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". El Espectador (in Spanish). 2021-06-15.
5. "Testimonios: Dr. Tatiana Toro". Mathematical Association of America. 2023-07-15.
6. Tatiana Toro, International Mathematical Olympiad, retrieved 2015-10-06.
7. Tatiana Toro, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, retrieved 2015-10-06.
8. Tatiana Toro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
9. MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
10. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, archived from the original on 2017-11-24, retrieved 2015-10-06.
11. 2017 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2016-11-06.
12. Recent faculty awards, University of Washington, retrieved 2016-11-06.
13. MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
14. "The Latest", American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2020-07-21
15. "AAAS Fellows Elected" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society
16. "ICMAM Latin America - ICMAM Prize".
17. "AWM-MAA Etta Zuber Falconer Lecturer Announced". Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). 2023-02-07. Retrieved 2023-03-15.