02/12/2022

Carolina Araujo is elected a full member of the ABC.

IMPA researcher Carolina Araujo was elected a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and will take office on January 1, 2023. The result was announced after the ABC's Ordinary General Assembly, this Thursday (1st), which elected full, corresponding and affiliated members. A researcher at the institute since 2006, Carolina is a specialist in complex algebraic geometry and has been awarded prizes for her contribution to the area, being the first Brazilian to receive the Ramanujan Prize.

“It is a great honor to have been elected a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and to be among great scientists from all areas. I hope to learn a lot from this experience, as well as to contribute to the development of Brazilian science,” Carolina celebrated.

Winner of the L'Oréal Award for Women in Science (2008), this Rio de Janeiro native holds a degree in mathematics from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio) and is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University in New Jersey (USA). Her academic career has earned her honors such as the Liftoff Fellowship from the Clay Mathematics Institute (2004) and the ICTP Simons Associateship (2015-2020). Another major achievement was the Ramanujan Prize (2020), awarded to mathematicians from developing countries.

Carolina is heavily involved in discussions about gender in mathematics, a field that historically has low female representation. The researcher was part of the organizing committee of the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)², a satellite event of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), held in Rio de Janeiro in 2018. She also coordinated the organizing committee of the first Brazilian Meeting of Women Mathematicians at IMPA and participated in a round table discussion at the event's second edition.

The full members of the ABC are scientists with outstanding scientific achievements who have been based in Brazil for more than ten years. Another 17 researchers from IMPA are full members of the ABC.

Full and corresponding members will receive their diplomas on May 10, 2023, during the ABC's General Meeting.