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Ana Bela Cruzeiro (born 1957) is a Portuguese and Swiss mathematician whose research concerns stochastic analysis and the Malliavin calculus, as well as the differential equations used to model fluid dynamics and quantum mechanics. She is a professor of mathematics at the Instituto Superior Técnico, part of the University of Lisbon.
Education and career
After earning a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Lisbon in 1980, Cruzeiro studied mathematics at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, earning a diplôme d'études approfondies in 1982, a doctorat de troisième cycle in 1983, and a doctorat d'état in 1985. Her 1985 doctoral dissertation, Equations différentielles ordinaires et équations différentielles stochastiques sur l'espace de Wiener, was supervised by Paul Malliavin. She also earned a habilitation (agregação) at the University of Lisbon in 1991.
She has been on the faculty of the University of Lisbon since 1986, and became a full professor there in 2002.
Recognition
Cruzeiro is a corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, elected in 2020.